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Darryl F. Zanuck (1902–1979)


One of the kingpins of Hollywood's studio system, Zanuck was the offspring of the ill-fated marriage of the alcoholic night clerk in Wahoo, Nebraska's only hotel and the hotel owner's promiscuous daughter. Both parents had abandoned him by the time he was 13. At 15, he joined the U.S. Army, and he fought in Belgium in World War I... See full bio »

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Filmography

Hide HideProducer (227 titles)
1973 Hung Up (producer - uncredited)
 
1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1969 The World of Fashion (documentary short) (producer)
 
1964 The Visit (producer)
 
1962 The Chapman Report (producer)
 
1962 The Longest Day (producer)
 
1961 The Big Gamble (producer)
 
1961 Sanctuary (producer)
 
1960 Crack in the Mirror (producer)
 
1958 The Roots of Heaven (producer)
 
1958 The Barbarian and the Geisha (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1957 The Sun Also Rises (producer)
 
1957 Island in the Sun (producer)
 
1956 The King and I (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1956 On the Threshold of Space (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1956 Carousel (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1956 De Luxe Tour (documentary) (executive producer)
 
1955 Good Morning, Miss Dove (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1955 The View from Pompey's Head (executive producer)
 
1955 Seven Cities of Gold (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1954 The Egyptian (producer)
 
1954 Broken Lance (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1953 Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1952 The Snows of Kilimanjaro (producer)
 
1952 With a Song in My Heart (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1952 Viva Zapata! (producer)
 
1951 People Will Talk (producer)
 
1951 David and Bathsheba (producer)
 
1950 All About Eve (producer)
 
1950 No Way Out (producer)
 
1950 Night and the City (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1950 A Ticket to Tomahawk (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1950 Cheaper by the Dozen (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1950 Under My Skin (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1949 Twelve O'Clock High (producer)
 
1949 Everybody Does It (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1949 Father Was a Fullback (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1949 Pinky (producer)
 
1949 Thieves' Highway (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1949 Slattery's Hurricane (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1949 Sand (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1949 It Happens Every Spring (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1949 The Fan (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1949 The Forbidden Street (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1948 That Wonderful Urge (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1948 The Snake Pit (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1948 Apartment for Peggy (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1948 Cry of the City (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1948 Road House (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1948 Give My Regards to Broadway (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1948 Fury at Furnace Creek (executive producer)
 
1948 Sitting Pretty (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1948 Call Northside 777 (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1947 Captain from Castile (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1947 Gentleman's Agreement (producer)
 
1947 Forever Amber (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1947 Nightmare Alley (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1947 The Foxes of Harrow (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1947 Moss Rose (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1947 The Homestretch (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1947 Carnival in Costa Rica (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1947 Boomerang! (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1947 The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1946 The Razor's Edge (producer)
 
1946 Centennial Summer (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1946 Somewhere in the Night (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1946 Strange Triangle (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1946 Dragonwyck (producer - uncredited)
 
1946 Claudia and David (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1945 Leave Her to Heaven (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1944 Winged Victory (producer)
 
1944 Wilson (producer)
 
1944 Buffalo Bill (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1944 The Purple Heart (producer)
 
1944 Lifeboat (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1943 Wintertime (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1943 Crash Dive (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1943 At the Front (documentary short) (producer)
 
1942 China Girl (producer - uncredited)
 
1942 The Black Swan (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1942 Thunder Birds [Soldiers of the Air] (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1942 This Above All (producer)
 
1942 My Gal Sal (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1942 To the Shores of Tripoli (producer)
 
1942 Sex Hygiene (short) (producer)
 
1942 Song of the Islands (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1941 How Green Was My Valley (producer)
 
1941 Swamp Water (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1941 Week-End in Havana (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1941 A Yank in the R.A.F. (producer)
 
1941 Sun Valley Serenade (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1941 Wild Geese Calling (executive producer)
 
1941 Moon Over Miami (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1941 Man Hunt (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1941 For Beauty's Sake (producer)
 
1941 Blood and Sand (producer)
 
1941 The Great American Broadcast (producer)
 
1941 That Night in Rio (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1941 Tobacco Road (producer)
 
1941 Western Union (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1941 Hudson's Bay (producer)
 
1941 Know for Sure (short) (producer - uncredited)
 
1940 Chad Hanna (producer - uncredited)
 
1940 The Mark of Zorro (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1940 Down Argentine Way (producer)
 
1940 Public Deb No. 1 (producer)
 
1940 The Great Profile (producer)
 
1940 Brigham Young (producer)
 
1940 The Return of Frank James (producer)
 
1940 The Man I Married (producer)
 
1940 Maryland (producer)
 
1940 Four Sons (producer)
 
1940 Lillian Russell (producer - uncredited)
 
1940 Star Dust (producer)
 
1940 Little Old New York (producer - as Darryl F. Zanuck's Production)
 
1940 The Grapes of Wrath (producer)
 
1940 The Blue Bird (producer - uncredited)
 
1939 Swanee River (producer)
 
1939 Too Busy to Work (producer)
 
1939 Drums Along the Mohawk (producer - uncredited)
 
1939 Hollywood Cavalcade (producer)
 
1939 Here I Am a Stranger (producer)
 
1939 The Rains Came (producer)
 
1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (producer - uncredited)
 
1939 Hotel for Women (producer)
 
1939 Stanley and Livingstone (producer)
 
1939 Second Fiddle (producer)
 
1939 Susannah of the Mounties (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1939 Young Mr. Lincoln (producer - uncredited)
 
1939 Rose of Washington Square (producer)
 
1939 The Hound of the Baskervilles (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1939 Wife, Husband and Friend (producer)
 
1939 Tail Spin (producer)
 
1939 Jesse James (producer - as Darryl F. Zanuck's Production)
 
1938 Kentucky (executive producer)
 
1938 Submarine Patrol (producer)
 
1938 My Lucky Star (producer)
 
1938 Gateway (producer)
 
1938 I'll Give a Million (producer)
 
1938 Little Miss Broadway (producer - uncredited)
 
1938 Always Goodbye (producer)
 
1938 Three Blind Mice (producer - uncredited)
 
1938 Josette (executive producer)
 
1938 Kentucky Moonshine (producer)
 
1938 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (producer - uncredited)
 
1938 Sally, Irene and Mary (executive producer)
 
1938 International Settlement (producer)
 
1938 Happy Landing (producer)
 
1937 Love and Hisses (producer)
 
1937 Lancer Spy (executive producer)
 
1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse (producer)
 
1937 Thin Ice (producer - uncredited)
 
1937 Wake Up and Live (producer)
 
1937 Wee Willie Winkie (producer - uncredited)
 
1937 Slave Ship (producer - uncredited)
 
1937 Angel's Holiday (producer)
 
1937 Seventh Heaven (producer)
 
1937 Nancy Steele Is Missing! (executive producer)
 
1937 On the Avenue (producer - uncredited)
 
1937 In Old Chicago (producer)
 
1936 Banjo on My Knee (executive producer)
 
1936 White Hunter (producer)
 
1936 Reunion (executive producer)
 
1936 Pigskin Parade (producer)
 
1936 Ramona (executive producer)
 
1936 Sing, Baby, Sing (producer)
 
1936 To Mary - with Love (producer)
 
1936 White Fang (producer)
 
1936 Poor Little Rich Girl (producer - uncredited)
 
1936 The Road to Glory (producer in charge of production)
 
1936 Half Angel (producer)
 
1936 Under Two Flags (producer - uncredited)
 
1936 The Country Beyond (producer)
 
1936 A Message to Garcia (producer)
 
1936 It Had to Happen (producer)
 
1936 The Prisoner of Shark Island (producer)
 
1935 Professional Soldier (producer)
 
1935 Show Them No Mercy! (producer)
 
1935 Thanks a Million (producer)
 
1935 Metropolitan (producer)
 
1935 The Call of the Wild (producer)
 
1935 Cardinal Richelieu (producer)
 
1935 Les Misérables (producer)
 
1935 Folies Bergère de Paris (producer)
 
1935 Clive of India (producer)
 
1934 The Mighty Barnum (producer)
 
1934 The Affairs of Cellini (producer - uncredited)
 
1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (producer)
 
1934 Born to Be Bad (producer)
 
1934 The Last Gentleman (producer)
 
1934 Looking for Trouble (producer)
 
1934 The House of Rothschild (producer - uncredited)
 
1934 Moulin Rouge (producer)
 
1933 Gallant Lady (producer)
 
1933 Advice to the Lovelorn (producer)
 
1933 Blood Money (producer)
 
1933 The Bowery (producer)
 
1933 Ex-Lady (producer - uncredited)
 
1933 The Working Man (producer - uncredited)
 
1933 42nd Street (producer - uncredited)
 
1933 Parachute Jumper (producer - uncredited)
 
1932 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (producer - uncredited)
 
1932 Three on a Match (producer - uncredited)
 
1932 The Cabin in the Cotton (producer - uncredited)
 
1932 Life Begins (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1932 Doctor X (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1932 The Dark Horse (producer - uncredited)
 
1932 The Rich Are Always with Us (producer - uncredited)
 
1932 The Man Who Played God (producer - uncredited)
 
1931 The Public Enemy (producer - uncredited)
 
1931 Illicit (producer - uncredited)
 
1931 Little Caesar (producer - uncredited)
 
1930 The Doorway to Hell (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1930 Three Faces East (producer)
 
1929 The Show of Shows (producer)
 
1929 On with the Show! (producer - uncredited)
 
1928 Noah's Ark (associate producer - uncredited)
 
1928 Tenderloin (producer)
 
1927 The Desired Woman (associate producer)
 
1927 The First Auto (producer - uncredited)
 
1927 Old San Francisco (producer - uncredited)
 
1926 So This Is Paris (producer)
 
1925 Lady Windermere's Fan (producer - uncredited)
 
Show ShowWriter (79 titles)
1968 D-Day Revisited (documentary) (uncredited)
 
1960 Crack in the Mirror (as Mark Canfield)
 
1946 The Razor's Edge (additional scenes - uncredited)
 
1944 The Purple Heart (story / as Melville Crossman)
 
1942 China Girl (as Melville Crossman / story)
 
1942 Thunder Birds [Soldiers of the Air] (original story / as Melville Crossman)
 
1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point (uncredited)
 
1941 A Yank in the R.A.F. (story / as Melville Crossman)
 
1940 The Great Profile (story - uncredited)
 
1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band (contributing writer - uncredited)
 
1937 This Is My Affair (story - uncredited)
 
1935 Thanks a Million (story - uncredited)
 
1935 'G' Men (novel "Public Enemy No. 1" - uncredited)
 
1935 Folies Bergère de Paris (contributing writer - uncredited)
 
1933 Lady Killer (story - uncredited)
 
1933 Baby Face (story / as Mark Canfield)
 
1932 The Dark Horse (as Melville Crossman / story)
 
1931 Little Caesar (uncredited)
 
1930 The Life of the Party (by / as Melville Crossman)
 
1930 Maybe It's Love (based on the story by / as Mark Canfield)
 
1929 Say It with Songs (story)
 
1929 Madonna of Avenue A (story / as Mark Canfield)
 
1929 Hardboiled Rose (as Melville Crossman / story)
 
1928 My Man (as Mark Canfield / story)
 
1928 Noah's Ark (story / as Darryl Francis Zanuck)
 
1928 The Midnight Taxi (as Gregory Rogers / story)
 
1928 State Street Sadie (as Melville Crossman / story)
 
1928 Pay as You Enter (story / as Gregory Rogers)
 
1928 Tenderloin (story / as Melville Crossman)
 
1927 Ham and Eggs at the Front (as Darryl Francis Zanuck / story)
 
1927 Good Time Charley (as Darryl Francis Zanuck / story)
 
1927 Jaws of Steel (as Gregory Rogers)
 
1927 Slightly Used (as Melville Crossman / story)
 
1927 The Desired Woman (as Mark Canfield / story)
 
1927 The First Auto (as Darryl Francis Zanuck / story)
 
1927 Old San Francisco (by / as Darryl Francis Zanuck)
 
1927 The Black Diamond Express (as Darryl Francis Zanuck / story)
 
1927 Simple Sis (story / as Melville Crossman)
 
1927 Irish Hearts (as Melville Crossman / story)
 
1927 The Missing Link (as Gregory Rogers)
 
1927 Tracked by the Police (as Gregory Rogers / story)
 
1927 Wolf's Clothing (as Gregory Rogers)
 
1926 The Better 'Ole (screen play / as Darryl Francis Zanuck)
 
1926 Across the Pacific (adaptation / as Darryl Francis Zanuck)
 
1926 Oh What a Nurse! (adaptation)
 
1926 The Little Irish Girl (adaptation)
 
1926 The Caveman
 
1925 Three Weeks in Paris (screenplay / as Gregory Rogers / story / as Gregory Rogers)
 
1925 Hogan's Alley (as Gregory Rogers)
 
1925 Seven Sinners
 
1925 Red Hot Tires (as Gregory Rogers / story)
 
1925 Eve's Lover
 
1925 A Broadway Butterfly (as Gregory Rogers)
 
1925 On Thin Ice (as Gregory Rogers)
 
1924 The Lighthouse by the Sea (as Gregory Rogers)
 
1924 The Millionaire Cowboy (as Darryl Francis Zanuck / story)
 
1924 Find Your Man (as Gregory Rogers)
 
1924 For the Love of Mike (short)
 
1924 Sherlock's Home (short)
 
1924 William Tells (short)
 
1924 King Leary (short)
 
1924 Money to Burns (short)
 
1924 Julius Sees Her (short)
 
1923 Judy Punch (short)
 
1923 The End of a Perfect Fray (short)
 
1923 Gall of the Wild (short)
 
1923 Some Punches and Judy (short)
 
1923 Two Stones with One Bird (short)
 
1923 Six Second Smith (short)
 
1923 The Knight That Failed (short)
 
1923 The Knight in Gale (short)
 
1923 Fighting Blood
 
1922 The Storm
 
1922 Round Two (short)
 
Show ShowProduction Manager (53 titles)
1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still (executive in charge of production - uncredited)
 
1940 I Was an Adventuress (executive in charge of production)
 
1940 Johnny Apollo (executive in charge of production)
 
1940 He Married His Wife (in charge of production)
 
1939 Everything Happens at Night (in charge of production)
 
1939 Barricade (executive in charge of production)
 
1939 Day-Time Wife (in charge of production)
 
1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (executive in charge of production)
 
1939 Second Fiddle (in charge of production)
 
1939 Susannah of the Mounties (in charge of production)
 
1939 The Gorilla (executive in charge of production)
 
1939 The Hound of the Baskervilles (executive in charge of production)
 
1939 The Little Princess (in charge of production)
 
1939 The Three Musketeers (executive in charge of production)
 
1938 Kentucky (in charge of production)
 
1938 Just Around the Corner (in charge of production)
 
1938 Suez (executive in charge of production)
 
1938 Straight Place and Show (executive in charge of production)
 
1938 Hold That Co-ed (executive in charge of production)
 
1938 Little Miss Broadway (in charge of production)
 
1938 Three Blind Mice (in charge of production)
 
1938 Kidnapped (executive in charge of production)
 
1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band (in charge of production)
 
1938 Four Men and a Prayer (executive in charge of production)
 
1938 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (in charge of production)
 
1938 The Baroness and the Butler (executive in charge of production)
 
1937 Second Honeymoon (executive in charge of production)
 
1937 Ali Baba Goes to Town (in charge of production)
 
1937 Heidi (in charge of production)
 
1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse (executive in charge of production)
 
1937 Thin Ice (executive in charge of production)
 
1937 You Can't Have Everything (in charge of production)
 
1937 Wee Willie Winkie (in charge of production)
 
1937 Slave Ship (in charge of production)
 
1937 This Is My Affair (in charge of production)
 
1937 Café Metropole (in charge of production)
 
1937 Love Is News (executive in charge of production)
 
1937 On the Avenue (in charge of production)
 
1936 One in a Million (executive in charge of production)
 
1936 Stowaway (in charge of production)
 
1936 Banjo on My Knee (executive in charge of production)
 
1936 Lloyd's of London (executive in charge of production)
 
1936 Dimples (in charge of production)
 
1936 Ladies in Love (in charge of production)
 
1936 Ramona (executive in charge of production)
 
1936 Girls' Dormitory (executive in charge of production)
 
1936 Poor Little Rich Girl (in charge of production)
 
1936 Private Number (in charge of production)
 
1936 Captain January (in charge of production)
 
1936 The Country Doctor (in charge of production)
 
1936 King of Burlesque (executive in charge of production)
 
1935 The Littlest Rebel (in charge of production)
 
1928 Lights of New York (production supervisor - uncredited)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (18 titles)
1956 The King and I (presenter)
 
1956 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (presenter)
 
1950 The Mudlark (presenter)
 
1950 All About Eve (presenter)
 
1950 No Way Out (presenter)
 
1950 Three Came Home (presenter)
 
1949 Pinky (presenter)
 
1948 The Snake Pit (presenter)
 
1948 The Iron Curtain (presenter)
 
1947 Captain from Castile (presenter)
 
1947 Gentleman's Agreement (presenter)
 
1947 Forever Amber (presenter)
 
1947 Boomerang! (presenter)
 
1946 My Darling Clementine (presenter)
 
1946 Anna and the King of Siam (presenter)
 
1946 Dragonwyck (presenter)
 
1945 Leave Her to Heaven (presenter)
 
Show ShowDirector (3 titles)
1963 Cleopatra (uncredited)
 
1962 The Longest Day (uncredited)
 
1928 Noah's Ark (uncredited)
 
Show ShowActor (2 titles)
1957 The Enemy Below
Chief (uncredited)
 
1924 Find Your Man (uncredited)
 
Show ShowSelf (15 titles)
1999 Great Books (TV series)
Himself
The Grapes of Wrath (1999) … Himself
 
1970-1971 The David Frost Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #3.211 (1971) … Himself
Episode #2.203 (1970) … Himself
 
1968 D-Day Revisited (documentary)
Himself
 
1958-1962 What's My Line? (TV series)
Himself - Mystery Guest
Episode dated 16 September 1962 (1962) … Himself - Mystery Guest
Episode dated 5 October 1958 (1958) … Himself - Mystery Guest
 
1960 Cinépanorama (TV series documentary)
Himself
Episode dated 11 June 1960 (1960) … Himself
 
1959 Small World (TV series)
Himself
Episode #1.22 (1959) … Himself
 
1954 The CinemaScope Parade
Himself
 
1950 The Screen Writer (documentary short)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1950 Screen Snapshots: The Great Showman (short)
Himself
 
1946 Hollywood Park (short)
Himself
 
1943 Show-Business at War (documentary short)
Himself
 
1943 At the Front (documentary short)
Himself
 
1940 Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (documentary short)
Himself (also archive footage)
 
1933 The 42nd. Street Special (documentary short)
Himself (uncredited)
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (23 titles)
2011 Hollywood Invasion (documentary)
Himself
 
2010 Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (TV mini-series documentary)
 
2009 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (documentary)
Himself
 
2003 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
2002 Cinerama Adventure (documentary)
Himself
 
2002 The Kid Stays in the Picture (documentary)
Himself
 
2000-2001 Backstory (TV series documentary)
 
2001 History vs. Hollywood (TV series documentary)
 
2001 Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1995-1999 Biography (TV series documentary)
 
1998 Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1997 20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1996 Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1995 The Casting Couch (video documentary)
 
1993 John Ford (TV documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1989 John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1958 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
 
1939 The Movies March On (documentary short)
Himself
 
0000 Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking (documentary)
Himself
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

Novel: "Public Enemy Number 1" (filmed [uncredited] as 'G' Men) See more »

Publicity Listings:

3 Biographical Movies  | 5 Print Biographies  | See more »

Alternate Names:

Mark Canfield | Melville Crossman | Darryl F. Zanuck's Production | Gregory Rogers | Darryl Francis Zanuck | Darryl Zanuck

Height:

5' 6" (1.68 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

There is nothing duller on the screen than being accurate but not dramatic. See more »

Trivia:

Like Charles Chaplin, he kept a dictionary in his office bathroom. Zanuck would escape to the bathroom to look up words his underlings would use that he didn't understand. See more »

Trademark:

Oversized cigar; oversized libido See more »

Star Sign:

Virgo