Darryl F. Zanuck

Producteur, Directeur, Éditeur, Scénariste, Acteur

5 septembre 1902 — 22 décembre 1979 (77 ans)
Darryl Francis Zanuck (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 was rivaled only by that of Adolph Zukor). He produced three films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture during his tenure.

Zanuck was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, the son of Sarah Louise (née Torpin), who later married Charles Norton, and Frank Harvey Zanuck, who owned and operated a hotel in Wahoo. He had an older brother, Donald (1893–1903), who died in an accident when he was only 9 years old. Zanuck was of partial Swiss descent, and raised a Protestant. At age six, Zanuck and his mother moved to Los Angeles, where the better climate could improve her poor health. At age eight, he found his first movie job as an extra, but his disapproving father recalled him to Nebraska. In 1917, despite being 15, he deceived a recruiter, joined the United States Army, and served in France with the Nebraska National Guard during World War I.

Upon returning to the US, he worked in many part-time jobs while seeking work as a writer. He found work producing movie plots, and sold his first story in 1922 to William Russell and his second to Irving Thalberg. Screenwriter Frederica Sagor Maas, story editor at Universal Pictures' New York office, stated that one of the stories Zanuck sent out to movie studios around this time was completely plagiarized from another author's work.

Zanuck then worked for Mack Sennett and FBO (where he wrote the serials The Telephone Girl and The Leather Pushers) and took that experience to Warner Bros., where he wrote stories for Rin Tin Tin and under a number of pseudonyms wrote over 40 scripts from 1924 to 1929, including Red Hot Tires (1925) and Old San Francisco (1927). He moved into management in 1929, and became head of production in 1931.

In 1933, Zanuck left Warner Bros. over a salary dispute with studio head Jack L. Warner. A few days later, he partnered with Joseph Schenck to form 20th Century Pictures, Inc. with financial help from Joseph's brother Nicholas Schenck and Louis B. Mayer, president and studio head of Loew's, Inc and its subsidiary Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, along with William Goetz and Raymond Griffith. 20th Century released its material through United Artists.

During that short time (1933–1935), 20th Century became the most successful independent movie studio of its time, breaking box-office records with 18 of its 19 films, all profitable, including Clive of India, Les Miserables, and The House of Rothschild. After a dispute with United Artists over stock ownership, Schenck and Zanuck negotiated and used their studio to bring the bankrupt Fox studios in 1935 to create Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

Zanuck was Vice President of Production of this new studio and took a hands-on approach, closely involving himself in scripts, film editing, and producing. ... Source: Article "Darryl F. Zanuck" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Films & Séries sur Plex

  • Le Petit César
    Le Petit César1931
  • La Cible humaine
    La Cible humaine1950
  • Le Chanteur de jazz
    Le Chanteur de jazz1927
  • Vers sa destinée
    Vers sa destinée1939
  • On murmure dans la ville
    On murmure dans la ville1951
  • Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro
    Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro1952
  • Les Misérables
    Les Misérables1935
  • Le Retour de Frank James
    Le Retour de Frank James1940
  • Je n'ai pas tué Lincoln
    Je n'ai pas tué Lincoln1936
  • Le Gorille
    Le Gorille1939
  • Tempête sous la mer
    Tempête sous la mer1953

Connue pour

  • Ève
    Ève1950
  • Les Raisins de la colère
    Les Raisins de la colère1940
  • Le Jour le plus long
    Le Jour le plus long1962
  • Tora ! Tora ! Tora !
    Tora ! Tora ! Tora !1970
  • Qu'elle était verte ma vallée
    Qu'elle était verte ma vallée1941
  • L'Ennemi public
    L'Ennemi public1931
  • Le Mur invisible
    Le Mur invisible1947
  • Un homme de fer
    Un homme de fer1949
  • Le Petit César
    Le Petit César1931
  • Le Roi et moi
    Le Roi et moi1956
  • 42ème rue
    42ème rue1933
  • Le Chien des Baskerville
    Le Chien des Baskerville1939
  • Le signe de Zorro
    Le signe de Zorro1940
  • Le Chanteur de jazz
    Le Chanteur de jazz1927
  • Les naufragés
    Les naufragés1944
  • Péché mortel
    Péché mortel1945
  • Les Forbans de la nuit
    Les Forbans de la nuit1950
  • Sherlock Holmes
    Sherlock Holmes1939
  • On murmure dans la ville
    On murmure dans la ville1951
  • Sur la piste des Mohawks
    Sur la piste des Mohawks1939

Filmographie

1970
Tora! Tora! Tora! · as Executive Producer
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The Agony and the Ecstasy · as Executive Producer
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The Barbarian and the Geisha · as Executive Producer
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The King and I · as Executive Producer
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On the Threshold of Space · as Executive Producer
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Carousel · as Executive Producer
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Good Morning, Miss Dove · as Executive Producer
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The View from Pompey's Head · as Executive Producer
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Seven Cities of Gold · as Executive Producer
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Broken Lance · as Executive Producer
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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef · as Executive ProducerSur Plex
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With a Song in My Heart · as Executive Producer
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The Gunfighter · as Executive ProducerSur Plex
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Night and the City · as Executive Producer
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Under My Skin · as Executive Producer
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A Ticket to Tomahawk · as Executive Producer
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Cheaper by the Dozen · as Executive Producer
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Everybody Does It · as Executive Producer
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Thieves' Highway · as Executive Producer
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Father Was a Fullback · as Executive Producer
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Slattery's Hurricane · as Executive Producer
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Sand · as Executive Producer
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The Fan · as Executive Producer
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You're My Everything · as Executive Producer
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It Happens Every Spring · as Executive Producer
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Mother Is a Freshman · as Executive Producer
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The Forbidden Street · as Executive Producer
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That Wonderful Urge · as Executive Producer
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The Walls of Jericho · as Executive Producer
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The Snake Pit · as Executive Producer
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Road House · as Executive Producer
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Cry of the City · as Executive Producer
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Give My Regards to Broadway · as Executive Producer
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Apartment for Peggy · as Executive Producer
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Fury at Furnace Creek · as Executive Producer
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Sitting Pretty · as Executive Producer
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Call Northside 777 · as Executive Producer
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Captain from Castile · as Executive Producer
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Nightmare Alley · as Executive Producer
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Forever Amber · as Executive Producer
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The Foxes of Harrow · as Executive Producer
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Moss Rose · as Executive Producer
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Carnival in Costa Rica · as Executive Producer
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The Homestretch · as Executive Producer
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13 Rue Madeleine · as Executive Producer
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Boomerang! · as Executive Producer
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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim · as Executive Producer
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Home, Sweet Homicide · as Executive Producer
1946
If I'm Lucky · as Executive Producer
1946
Centennial Summer · as Executive Producer
1946
Somewhere in the Night · as Executive Producer
1946
Strange Triangle · as Executive Producer
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Claudia and David · as Executive Producer
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Leave Her to Heaven · as Executive Producer
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Buffalo Bill · as Executive Producer
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Lifeboat · as Executive Producer
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Wintertime · as Executive Producer
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Crash Dive · as Executive Producer
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The Black Swan · as Executive Producer
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Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air · as Executive Producer
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My Gal Sal · as Executive Producer
1942
The Pied Piper · as Executive Producer
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Moontide · as Executive Producer
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Song of the Islands · as Executive Producer
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Remember the Day · as Executive Producer
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Rise and Shine · as Executive Producer
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Swamp Water · as Executive Producer
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Week-End in Havana · as Executive Producer
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Sun Valley Serenade · as Executive Producer
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Wild Geese Calling · as Executive Producer
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Moon Over Miami · as Executive Producer
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Man Hunt · as Executive Producer
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Western Union · as Executive Producer
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Tall, Dark and Handsome · as Executive Producer
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The Mark of Zorro · as Executive Producer
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Second Fiddle · as Executive Producer
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Susannah of the Mounties · as Executive Producer
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The Hound of the Baskervilles · as Executive Producer
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Kentucky · as Executive Producer
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Josette · as Executive Producer
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Sally, Irene and Mary · as Executive Producer
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Lancer Spy · as Executive Producer
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Life Begins in College · as Executive Producer
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Banjo on My Knee · as Executive Producer
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Ramona · as Executive Producer
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Life Begins · as Executive Producer
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Doctor X · as Executive Producer
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Blonde Crazy · as Executive Producer
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The Doorway to Hell · as Executive Producer
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Maybe It's Love · as Executive Producer
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Noah's Ark · as Associate Producer
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