About

Known credits:
60
Birthday:
1910-04-24
Place of birth:
Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Website:
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Albert Zugsmith

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Known for

Acting
2008 Acting for Douglas Sirk Actor Self (archive footage) N/A
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1980 Douglas Sirk: Über Stars Actor Self N/A
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1972 The Thing with Two Heads Actor Cameo 58
Average
1964 Fanny Hill Actor Grand Duke 58
Average

Directing
1973 Violated! Directing Director 58
Average
1971 The Manson Massacre Directing Director 58
Average
1970 The Phantom Gunslinger Directing Director 58
Average
1969 Two Roses and a Golden Rod Directing Director 58
Average
1969 The Very Friendly Neighbors Directing Director N/A
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1968 Sappho Darling Directing Director 58
Average
1968 The Chinese Room Directing Director 58
Average
1966 Psychedelic Sexualis Directing Director 58
Average
1966 Movie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You Directing Director 59
Average
1965 The Incredible Sex Revolution Directing Director 58
Average
1962 Confessions of an Opium Eater Directing Director 58
Average
1961 Dondi Directing Director 58
Average
1960 College Confidential Directing Director 59
Average
1960 Sex Kittens Go to College Directing Director 58
Average
1960 The Private Lives of Adam and Eve Directing Director 58
Average

Writing
1973 Violated! Writing Writer 58
Average
1971 The Manson Massacre Writing Writer 58
Average
1969 The Very Friendly Neighbors Writing Writer N/A
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1969 Two Roses and a Golden Rod Writing Writer 58
Average
1968 Sappho Darling Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1968 The Chinese Room Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1966 Psychedelic Sexualis Writing Writer 58
Average
1961 Dondi Writing Writer 58
Average
1960 College Confidential Writing Story 59
Average
1960 Sex Kittens Go to College Writing Story 58
Average
1958 The Female Animal Writing Story 58
Average

Production
1964 Fanny Hill Production Producer 58
Average
1962 Confessions of an Opium Eater Production Producer 58
Average
1961 Dondi Production Producer 58
Average
1960 College Confidential Production Producer 59
Average
1960 Sex Kittens Go to College Production Producer 58
Average
1960 Platinum High School Production Executive Producer 59
Average
1959 Girls Town Production Producer 58
Average
1959 The Big Operator Production Producer 59
Average
1959 The Beat Generation Production Producer 58
Average
1959 Night of the Quarter Moon Production Producer 58
Average
1958 High School Confidential! Production Producer 58
Average
1958 Touch of Evil Production Producer 72
Good
1958 The Female Animal Production Producer 58
Average
1957 Man in the Shadow Production Producer 59
Average
1957 The Tarnished Angels Production Producer 59
Average
1957 Slaughter on 10th Avenue Production Producer 58
Average
1957 The Girl in the Kremlin Production Producer 58
Average
1957 The Tattered Dress Production Producer 58
Average
1957 The Incredible Shrinking Man Production Producer 66
Fair
1956 Written on the Wind Production Producer 62
Fair
1956 Star in the Dust Production Producer 58
Average
1956 Raw Edge Production Producer 58
Average
1956 Red Sundown Production Producer 59
Average
1955 The Square Jungle Production Producer 58
Average
1955 Female on the Beach Production Producer 58
Average
1953 Port Sinister Production Associate Producer 59
Average
1953 Sword of Venus Production Associate Producer 58
Average
1952 Invasion, U.S.A. Production Producer 57
Average
1952 Captive Women Production Associate Producer 58
Average

Crew
1960 The Private Lives of Adam and Eve Crew Presenter 58
Average