Darryl F. Zanuck

Birth Name:

Darryl Francis Zanuck

Birth Place:

Wahoo, Nebraska, United States

Profession

Producer, Writer, Production manager, Director, Actor, Editor

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
Won three Thalberg Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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
Joined the National Guard and fought in France when he was 15 years old
Wrote gags for Keystone Cops, Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle
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

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