Albert Zugsmith
Production
- Born
- April 24, 1910 · Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
- Died
- October 26, 1993 (age 83)
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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.
Known for
Touch of Evil
March 30, 1958
The Incredible Shrinking Man
February 22, 1957
Written on the Wind
October 4, 1956
The Tarnished Angels
November 21, 1957
Man in the Shadow
December 12, 1957
Female on the Beach
August 19, 1955
Red Sundown
March 1, 1956
Invasion, U.S.A.
December 10, 1952
Confessions of an Opium Eater
June 20, 1962
Fanny Hill
September 25, 1964
Star in the Dust
June 13, 1956
High School Confidential!
May 30, 1958
Behind the camera41
- 1975Violated! Director, Writer
- 1971The Manson Massacre Writer, Director
- 1970The Phantom Gunslinger Director
- 1969Two Roses and a Golden Rod Director, Writer
- 1969The Very Friendly Neighbors Director, Writer
- 1968Sappho Darling Screenplay, Director
- 1968The Chinese Room Director, Screenplay
- 1966Psychedelic Sexualis Writer, Director
- 1966Movie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You Director
- 1965