Darryl F. Zanuck Biography

Fast Facts

• Won three Thalberg Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• Won the David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Production in 1963 for "The Longest Day․"
• Won the Directors Guild of America Honorary Life Member Award in 1968
• Was educated at Page Military Academy in Los Angeles, Calif
• His first film role was in a silent Western when he was 8 years old
• Wrote gags for Keystone Cops, Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle
• Joined the National Guard and fought in France when he was 15 years old
• Formed 20th Century Pictures with Joseph Schenck in 1933, which would soon merge with Fox Studios to become 20th Century-Fox
• In 1969, he became chairman and CEO of 20th Century-Fox
• The Zanuck Theater on the Fox lot was named after him