Albert Zugsmith

Personal Info

Known For Producer

Gender Male

Birthday 1910-04-24

Deathday 1993-10-26 (83 years old)

Place of Birth Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

Also Known As Albert H. Zugsmith, Kentucky Jones, Gunnar Steele, Al Zugsmith

Albert Zugsmith

Biography

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.

Known For

Producer

1964
Fanny Hill

as Producer

1961
Dondi

as Producer

1960
1960
Platinum High School

as Executive Producer

1959
1959
The Big Operator

as Producer

1959
Girls Town

as Producer

1958
Touch of Evil

as Producer

1958
The Female Animal

as Producer

1957
Man in the Shadow

as Producer

1957
The Tattered Dress

as Producer

1957
1957
1957
1956
Star in the Dust

as Producer

1956
Raw Edge

as Producer

1956
1956
Red Sundown

as Producer

1955
1955
The Square Jungle

as Producer

1953
Sword of Venus

as Associate Producer

1953
Port Sinister

as Associate Producer

1952
Captive Women

as Associate Producer

1952
Invasion, U.S.A.

as Producer

Director

1973
Violated!

as Director

1971
1970
1968
The Chinese Room

as Director

1968
Sappho Darling

as Director

1966
1961
Dondi

as Director

1960

Writer

1973
Violated!

as Writer

1971
1968
Sappho Darling

as Screenplay

1968
The Chinese Room

as Screenplay

1966
1961
Dondi

as Writer

1958

Actor

2008
Acting for Douglas Sirk

as Self (archive footage)

1964
Fanny Hill

as Grand Duke