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Albert Zugsmith

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Directed movies: 12Directed series: 0All crew credits: 40

TMDB ID: 45279

IMDb ID: nm0428572

Known for: Production

Born: April 24, 1910

Died: October 26, 1993

Age: 83

Place of birth: Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1952 - 1973

Years active: 22

Average TMDB rating: 5.78

Wikidata: Q4711522

Also known as

Albert H. Zugsmith • Kentucky Jones • Gunnar Steele • Al Zugsmith

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Director (12)Producer (21)Associate Producer (3)Executive Producer (1)Screenplay (1)Story (1)Writer (1)

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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.

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