Albert Zugsmith

Producer, Regisseur, Acteur, Schrijver

24 april 1910 — 26 oktober 1993 (83 years)
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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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Invasion, U.S.A.
    Invasion, U.S.A.1952
  • Dog Eat Dog!
    Dog Eat Dog!1964

Known For

  • Touch of Evil
    Touch of Evil1958
  • De krimpende man
    De krimpende man1957
  • Duistere driften
    Duistere driften1956
  • The Tarnished Angels
    The Tarnished Angels1957
  • Female on the Beach
    Female on the Beach1955
  • Man in the Shadow
    Man in the Shadow1957
  • Girls Town
    Girls Town1959
  • Invasion, U.S.A.
    Invasion, U.S.A.1952
  • Confessions of an Opium Eater
    Confessions of an Opium Eater1962
  • Bloedige zonsondergang
    Bloedige zonsondergang1956
  • The Female Animal
    The Female Animal1958
  • Sex Kittens Go to College
    Sex Kittens Go to College1960
  • Star in the Dust
    Star in the Dust1956
  • High School Confidential!
    High School Confidential!1958
  • Raw Edge
    Raw Edge1956
  • Dondi
    Dondi1961
  • Russ Meyer's Fanny Hill
    Russ Meyer's Fanny Hill1964
  • Top Banana
    Top Banana1954
  • Two Roses and a Golden Rod
    Two Roses and a Golden Rod1969
  • The Phantom Gunslinger
    The Phantom Gunslinger1970

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