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Darryl F. Zanuck is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Associate Producer and Presenter American born on 5 september 1902 at Wahoo (USA)

Darryl F. Zanuck

Darryl F. Zanuck
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Birth name Darryl Francis Zanuck
Nationality USA
Birth 5 september 1902 at Wahoo (USA)
Death 22 december 1979 (at 77 years) at Palm Springs (USA)
Creator of 20th Century Fox

Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902 – December 22, 1979) was an American film studio executive and producer; he also contributed to the scripts of the films on which he worked. 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 earned three Academy Awards during his tenure.

Biography

C'est l'un des monuments du Septième Art. Avec plus de 200 films produits durant cinquante ans, du cinéma muet des années 1920 jusqu'au début des années 1970, on lui doit plusieurs chefs-d'œuvre et la révélation d'une multitude de talentueux réalisateurs et stars.

Il a commencé comme gagman pour Charles Chaplin dans les années 1910, avant de gravir petit à petit tous les échelons de la hiérarchie hollywoodienne. Stewart Granger a raconté avoir boxé Darryl Zanuck parce que celui-ci voulait coucher avec son épouse Jean Simmons. Zanuck lui a dit qu'il allait briser sa carrière, et il l'a fait : après 1957, la carrière américaine de Stewart Granger est finie.

Darryl Zanuck a été marié pendant plus de trente ans à Virginia Fox, l'une des actrices fétiches de Buster Keaton. Il a par la suite vécu plusieurs idylles, notamment avec Juliette Gréco, puis avec l'actrice Irina Demick et aussi avec la jeune actrice française Geneviève Gilles à la fin des années 1960.

Après sa rupture avec Juliette Gréco et après avoir démissionné de la Fox (dont il reste actionnaire majoritaire), et parlant couramment le français, il vient vivre en France au début des années 1960 et s'installe à Paris au n 44 rue du Bac.



Darryl Zanuck est inhumé au Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery de Westwood (Los Angeles).

Son fils, Richard D. Zanuck (1934-2012), a également été producteur de cinéma.

Best films

Cleopatra (1963)
(Director)
The Longest Day (1962)
(Director)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
(Executive Producer)
The King and I (1956)
(Executive Producer)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
(Producer)
All About Eve (1950)
(Producer)

Usually with

Thomas Little
Thomas Little
(155 films)
Richard Day
Richard Day
(75 films)
Roger Heman Sr.
Roger Heman Sr.
(72 films)
Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman
(70 films)
Ben Nye
Ben Nye
(53 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Darryl F. Zanuck (287 films)

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Director

Cleopatra
Cleopatra (1963)
, 4h8
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Darryl F. Zanuck, Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Politique, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Children's films, Films about royalty
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Martin Landau, Hume Cronyn
Rating70% 3.500673.500673.500673.500673.50067
After the Battle of Pharsalus where Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) has defeated Pompey, Pompey flees to Egypt, hoping to enlist the support of the young Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII (Richard O'Sullivan) and his sister Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor). The Romans hold, and the armies of Mithridates arrive on Egyptian soil. The following day, Caesar passes judgment. He sentences Ptolemy's lord chamberlain to death for arranging an assassination attempt on Cleopatra. Cleopatra is crowned Queen of Egypt. She dreams of ruling the world with Caesar. When their son Caesarion is born, Caesar accepts him publicly, which becomes the talk of Rome and the Senate.
The Longest Day, 2h51
Directed by Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Radio, Political films, Children's films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Patrick Barr, Richard Burton, Lyndon Brook, Robert Mitchum
Rating76% 3.8493.8493.8493.8493.849
The movie is filmed in the style of a docudrama. Beginning in the days leading up to D-Day, it concentrates on events on both sides of the channel, such as the Allies waiting for the break in the poor weather and anticipating the reaction of the Axis forces defending northern France. The film pays particular attention to the decision by Gen. Eisenhower, supreme commander of SHAEF, to go after reviewing the initial bad-weather reports as well as reports about the divisions within the German High Command as to where an invasion might happen or what the response to it should be.
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake, 1h38
Directed by John Cromwell, Darryl F. Zanuck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Frances Farmer, Roddy McDowall, John Carradine
Rating70% 3.54583.54583.54583.54583.5458
The story is set during the reign of King George III, in Bristol, England, where young Benjamin Blake (Roddy McDowall), son of the deceased Baronet of Breetholm is taken from his commoner grandfather, gunsmith Amos Kidder (Harry Davenport), and forced to serve his vengeful uncle, Sir Arthur Blake (George Sanders). Arthur inherited the title and land from his brother Godfrey, and fears that Ben may not have been born out of wedlock and might claim his inheritance. He compels the boy to become his ward and bonded servant, giving Arthur life-and-death power over the lad. Ben runs away to his grandfather, but rather than force the old man to live a life on the run, returns to Breetholm, vowing to endure whatever he must in order to one day prove himself a "true Blake" and recover his birthright.
Western Union, 1h35
Directed by Otto Brower, Harry Joe Brown, Darryl F. Zanuck, Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Virginia Gilmore, Slim Summerville
Rating66% 3.3417253.3417253.3417253.3417253.341725
While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark (1928)
, 2h15
Directed by Michael Curtiz, Darryl F. Zanuck, Anthony Coldeway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Musical
Themes Films about religion, Musical films, Political films, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism, Disaster films
Actors Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Noah Beery Sr., Louise Fazenda, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Paul McAllister
Rating66% 3.341173.341173.341173.341173.34117
The film opens after the great flood, with Noah and his family outside of the Ark praising the Lord. Then comes depictions of the building of the Tower of Babel and the worshipping of the golden calf. Then it switches to the eve of World War I. The theme of the gold calf is carried forward by a scene in which a bankrupted trader (Otto Hoffman) shoots his uncaring stockbroker.

Scriptwriter

Crack in the Mirror, 1h36
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Orson Welles, Juliette Gréco, Bradford Dillman, Alexander Knox, Catherine Lacey, William Lucas
Roles Writer
Rating64% 3.2408653.2408653.2408653.2408653.240865
In a rundown Paris dwelling, an angry Hagolin accuses mistress Eponine of seeing a man named Larnier behind his back. In a party at a stately home, meanwhile, prosperous attorney Lamerciere's guests include his longtime mistress, Florence, and his young law partner, Claude.
You're My Everything, 1h34
Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Anne Revere, Stanley Ridges, Henry O'Neill, Alan Mowbray
Rating59% 2.997522.997522.997522.997522.99752
Boston, 1924: A starstruck Hannah Adams waits outside in the rain to meet Tim O'Connor, who has just performed in a musical on stage. She invites him home to meet her family, and soon they are in love and getting married.
The Razor's Edge, 2h25
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes La provence, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall
Rating72% 3.6455453.6455453.6455453.6455453.645545
The film, in which W. Somerset Maugham (Herbert Marshall) is himself a minor character, drifting in and out of the lives of the major players, opens at a party held following World War I in 1919 at a country club in Chicago, Illinois. Elliott Templeton (Clifton Webb), an expatriate, has returned to the United States for the first time since before the war to visit his sister, Louisa Bradley (Lucile Watson), and his niece, Isabel (Gene Tierney), engaged to be married to Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power), of whom Elliott strongly disapproves for rejecting both inclusion in their social stratum and working in the common world.
The Purple Heart, 1h39
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Documentary films about World War II, Children's films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger, Don "Red" Barry, Trudy Marshall, Sam Levene
Roles Story
Rating64% 3.245243.245243.245243.245243.24524
In April 1942, after a raid on Japan, eight American aircrew made up of the crews from two North American B-25 Mitchell bombers, are captured. Capt. Harvey Ross (Dana Andrews), becomes the leader of the captives. Initially, the men are picked up by a local government official who is a Chinese collaborator in a Wang Jingwei controlled section of China. The Chinese official delivers the Americans to the Imperial Japanese Army to be put on trial at the Shanghai Police Headquarters. Although international observers and correspondents are allowed to witness the trial, the commanding officer, General Mitsubi (Richard Loo) refuses to allow Karl Kappel (Torben Meyer), the Swiss Consul to contact Washington.
China Girl
China Girl (1942)
, 1h35
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Sig Ruman, Lynn Bari, Myron McCormick, Robert Blake
Rating61% 3.094623.094623.094623.094623.09462
The year is 1941, and in Luichow, China, a news cameraman named Johnny Williams (George Montgomery) is taken into custody by the Japanese military, because they want him to take pictures for them of the Burma Road construction. Johnny will get $20,000 for his work, but he isn't interested.
Thunder Birds, 1h18
Directed by William A. Wellman, Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton, Jack Holt, Reginald Denny, May Whitty
Roles Story
Rating60% 3.0481553.0481553.0481553.0481553.048155
Soon after the US enters World War II, Steve Britt (Preston Foster), a former World War I flying ace, arrives at Thunderbird Field, looking for a job as a civilian primary flight instructor. The base commander is an old friend, Lt. Col. "Mac" MacDonald (Jack Holt), working with Squadron Leader Barrett (Reginald Denny, himself a WWI aerial observer), who is in charge of the Royal Air Force cadets at the base.
A Yank in the R.A.F., 1h38
Directed by Henry King, Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Bruce Lester, Ralph Byrd
Roles Story
Rating62% 3.145453.145453.145453.145453.14545
In 1940, American-built North American Harvard training aircraft are flown to just outside Canada, where they are towed across the border for use by Britain. (The procedure is necessary to avoid violating the Neutrality Acts, as the United States is still neutral.) Cocky American pilot Tim Baker (Tyrone Power) decides to fly across the border to Trenton, Ontario, and winds up in trouble with the military authorities, unconvincingly claiming he was looking for Trenton, New Jersey. Baker ferries a Lockheed Hudson bomber to Britain, pocketing $1,000 for his work.