Albert Zugsmith
Age: 83 | From: Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1910-04-24 02:15:01
Death: 1993-10-26 02:15:01
Aliases: Albert H. Zugsmith
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 56
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Albert Zugsmith (April 24, 1910 – October 26, 1993) was an American film producer, film director and screenwriter who specialized in low-budget exploitation films through the 1950s and 1960s. With a background in music promotion (Ted Weems, Paul Whitman) public relations (one of his clients in depression era Chicago was Al Copone), journalism and brokering communication properties (radio, newspaper, early television), Zugsmith became independently wealthy and began producing films at RKO during the Howard Hughes years. Zugsmith's most significant credits are a string of four genre masterpieces produced in the late 1950s, all for Universal Studios: the science-fiction classic The Incredible Shrinking Man, Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind, and the camp exploitation films produced for MGM High School Confidential and The Girl in the Kremlin. An archive of some of his shooting scripts and screen plays are housed in the Special Collections department at the University of Iowa.
Most Famous Work
Touch of Evil
(1958) Producer
The Incredible Shrinking Man
(1957) Producer
Written on the Wind
(1956) Producer
The Tarnished Angels
(1957) Producer
Red Sundown
(1956) Producer
Fanny Hill
(1964) Producer
Star in the Dust
(1956) Producer
Girls Town
(1959) ProducerActing
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| 2008 | N/A | |
| 1980 | Self | |
| 1972 | Cameo | |
| 1964 | Grand Duke | |
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Writing
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| 1975 | Writer | |
| 1971 | Writer | |
| 1969 | Writer | |
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| 1966 | Writer | |
| 1961 | Writer | |
| 1960 | Story | |
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| 1958 | Story | |
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Directing
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Production
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| 1964 | Producer | |
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| 1953 | Associate Producer | |
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| 1952 | Producer | |
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Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 1960 | Presenter | |
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