biography
| name: |
Zanuck, Darryl F(rancis)
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pronunciation:
[zanuhk]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1902–79)
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| biography:
| Film producer, born in Wahoo, Nebraska, USA. He started as a scriptwriter with Warner Brothers, and soon became executive producer. He led the change to sound with The Jazz Singer (1927), his other notable productions of that period including Little Caesar (1930), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and How Green Was My Valley? (1941). He co-founded Twentieth-Century Pictures (1933) and, after its merger with Fox Films in 1935, was controlling executive of Twentieth-Century Fox Films Corporation (president from 1965). Among his many successful titles are The Longest Day (1962), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), and The Sound of Music (1965). He retired in 1971. |
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