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Albert Zugsmith

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.


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Born:
Apr 24, 1910 In Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
4
First Appeared:
In the movie Fanny Hill 1964-09-25
Latest Project:
Movie Acting for Douglas Sirk 2008-11-05
Known For
Poster of Acting for Douglas Sirk
Poster of Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
Poster of The Thing with Two Heads
Poster of Fanny Hill
Filmography
Movie Acting for Douglas Sirk Self (archive footage) 2008-11-05
Movie Douglas Sirk: Über Stars Self 1980-04-29
Movie The Thing with Two Heads Cameo 1972-07-19
Movie Fanny Hill Grand Duke 1964-09-25