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Relatives. Dean Zanuck (grandson) Darryl Francis Zanuck ( / ˈzænək /; September 5, 1902 – December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era. He played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career ...
Darryl F. Zanuck. Producer: The Longest Day. 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 daughter.
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- Wahoo, Nebraska, USA
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- Palm Springs, California, USA
Darryl F. Zanuck. Producer: The Longest Day. 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 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. Mustered out, he kept himself...
- September 5, 1902
- December 22, 1979
Jul 11, 2010 · Century-Fox. As a filmmaker Darryl F. Zanuck was more a storyteller than an historian. When he was the dominant creative force at 20 th Century-Fox as its vice-president of production in the thirties and forties, Zanuck’s interest in history was in the stories it provided him and his collaborators (screenwriters, directors, technicians, et al.).
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Apr 16, 2024 · Darryl F. Zanuck (born September 5, 1902, Wahoo, Neb., U.S.—died December 22, 1979, Palm Springs, Calif.) was a Hollywood producer and movie executive for more than 40 years and an innovator of many trends in film. Abandoned by his parents at age 13, Zanuck joined the U.S. Army and fought in Belgium during World War I.
Sep 1, 2002 · Zanuck, who would have been 100 on Thursday, was an archetypal figure at the center of the studio system, a man who defined American movies of his time, the 1930's through the 1960's. As an ...
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Jul 27, 2020 · The names Twentieth Century Fox and Darryl F. Zanuck are interchangeable. The studio was established in 1935 when William Fox, on the verge of bankruptcy, merged his once-powerful studio (Fox Film Corporation) with Twentieth Century Pictures, which had been created by Louis B. Mayer to provide an executive position for his son in law William ...
