Albert Zugsmith
Production
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
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movieFanny Hill
1964
Producer
Zigzag
1963
Producer
movieDondi
1961
Producer
movieCollege Confidential
1960
Producer
moviePlatinum High School
1960
Executive Producer
movieGirls Town
1959
Producer
movieThe Big Operator
1959
Producer
movieThe Beat Generation
1959
Producer
movieTouch of Evil
1958
Producer
movieThe Female Animal
1958
Producer
movieMan in the Shadow
1957
Producer
movieThe Tarnished Angels
1957
Producer
movieThe Girl in the Kremlin
1957
Producer
movieThe Tattered Dress
1957
Producer
movieWritten on the Wind
1956
Producer
movieStar in the Dust
1956
Producer
movieRaw Edge
1956
Producer
movieRed Sundown
1956
Producer
movieThe Square Jungle
1955
Producer
movieFemale on the Beach
1955
Producer
moviePort Sinister
1953
Associate Producer
movieSword of Venus
1953
Associate Producer
movieInvasion, U.S.A.
1952
Producer
movieCaptive Women
1952
Associate Producer
Directing15
movieViolated!
1973
Director
movieThe Manson Massacre
1971
Director
movieThe Phantom Gunslinger
1970
Director
movieSappho Darling
1968
Director
movieThe Chinese Room
1968
Director
moviePsychedelic Sexualis
1966
Director
movieDondi
1961
Director
movieCollege Confidential
1960
Director
Writing11
movieViolated!
1973
Writer
movieSappho Darling
1968
Screenplay
movieThe Chinese Room
1968
Screenplay
movieDondi
1961
Writer
Acting4
Acting for Douglas Sirk
2008
Self (archive footage)
movieFanny Hill
1964
Grand Duke