Albert Zugsmith
Born: 1910-04-24 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Died: 1993-10-26
Known For: Production
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.
Filmography
2008
- Acting for Douglas Sirk as Self (archive footage)
1980
- Douglas Sirk: Über Stars as Self
1973
- Violated! ... (Director)
1972
- The Thing with Two Heads as Cameo
1971
- The Manson Massacre ... (Writer)
1970
- The Phantom Gunslinger ... (Director)
1969
- Two Roses and a Golden Rod ... (Director)
- The Very Friendly Neighbors ... (Director)
1968
- Sappho Darling ... (Screenplay)
- The Chinese Room ... (Director)
1966
- Psychedelic Sexualis ... (Writer)
- Movie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You ... (Director)
1965
- The Incredible Sex Revolution ... (Director)
1964
- Fanny Hill as Grand Duke
1963
- Zigzag ... (Producer)
1962
- Confessions of an Opium Eater ... (Director)
1961
- Dondi ... (Director)
1960
- College Confidential ... (Director)
- The Private Lives of Adam and Eve ... (Director)
- Platinum High School ... (Executive Producer)
- Sex Kittens Go to College ... (Director)
1959
- Girls Town ... (Producer)
- The Beat Generation ... (Producer)
- Night of the Quarter Moon ... (Producer)
- The Big Operator ... (Producer)
1958
- Touch of Evil ... (Producer)
- High School Confidential! ... (Producer)
- The Female Animal ... (Story)
1957
- The Incredible Shrinking Man ... (Producer)
- The Tarnished Angels ... (Producer)
- Man in the Shadow ... (Producer)
- Slaughter on 10th Avenue ... (Producer)
- The Tattered Dress ... (Producer)
- The Girl in the Kremlin ... (Producer)
1956
- Red Sundown ... (Producer)
- Raw Edge ... (Producer)
- Written on the Wind ... (Producer)
- Star in the Dust ... (Producer)
1955
- Female on the Beach ... (Producer)
- The Square Jungle ... (Producer)
1953
- Port Sinister ... (Associate Producer)
- Sword of Venus ... (Associate Producer)
1952
- Captive Women ... (Associate Producer)
- Invasion, U.S.A. ... (Producer)