Albert Zugsmith
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
ProductionBirthday
April 24, 1910Deathday
October 26, 1993Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
44Place of birth
Atlantic City, New Jersey, USAAlso known as
Albert H. Zugsmith, Kentucky Jones, Gunnar Steele, Al ZugsmithCast credits
Crew credits
Touch of Evil
ProducerPsychedelic Sexualis
Director, WriterFanny Hill
ProducerSappho Darling
Screenplay, DirectorThe Incredible Shrinking Man
ProducerMan in the Shadow
ProducerThe Beat Generation
ProducerFemale on the Beach
ProducerCollege Confidential
Story, Director, ProducerConfessions of an Opium Eater
Director, ProducerThe Tattered Dress
ProducerRaw Edge
ProducerViolated!
Writer, DirectorSex Kittens Go to College
Director, Story, ProducerDondi
Director, Writer, ProducerMovie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You
DirectorTwo Roses and a Golden Rod
Director, WriterThe Private Lives of Adam and Eve
Director, PresenterThe Incredible Sex Revolution
DirectorThe Phantom Gunslinger
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