Richard D. Zanuck

Birth Name:

Richard Darryl Zanuck

Birth Place:

Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession

Producer, Production manager

Earned a degree from Stanford University while working in 20th Century Fox's story department
Met Lili Fini on a blind date in 1978 and married her four months later, and they were still married at his death in 2012
Quote: "I'm not a nostalgia guy․ These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had․"
Quote: "I've been on both sides of the desk․ I've been a producer, as I am now; I've been a suit, in the days when the suits actually wore suits․"
Found his greatest success as head of his own production company after being fired from 20th Century Fox in 1970 by his father, studio head Darryl F․ Zanuck
Was on the set every day as his movies were being shot
Was the subject of TCM's documentary tribute "Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking," which he got to see three days before his death at age 77

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