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Albert Zugsmith
Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
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-bud…
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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
Movies and shows, newest first
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2008
Acting for Douglas Sirk
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1980
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
Movie Self
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1975
Violated!
Movie Director
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1972
The Thing with Two Heads
Movie Cameo (uncredited)
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1971
The Manson Massacre
Movie Writer
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1970
The Phantom Gunslinger
Movie Director
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1969
Two Roses and a Golden Rod
Movie Director
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1969
The Very Friendly Neighbors
Movie Director
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1968
Sappho Darling
Movie Screenplay
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1968
The Chinese Room
Movie Director
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1966
Psychedelic Sexualis
Movie Writer
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1966
Movie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You
Movie Director
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1965
The Incredible Sex Revolution
Movie Director
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1964
Fanny Hill
Movie Grand Duke
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1963
Zigzag
Movie Producer
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1962
Confessions of an Opium Eater
Movie Director
More credits
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1961
Dondi
Movie Director
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1960
College Confidential
Movie Director
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1960
Sex Kittens Go to College
Movie Director
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1960
Platinum High School
Movie Executive Producer
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1960
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
Movie Director
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1959
Girls Town
Movie Producer
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1959
The Big Operator
Movie Producer
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1959
The Beat Generation
Movie Producer
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1959
Night of the Quarter Moon
Movie Producer
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1958
High School Confidential!
Movie Producer
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1958
Touch of Evil
Movie Producer
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1958
The Female Animal
Movie Story
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1957
Man in the Shadow
Movie Producer
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1957
The Tarnished Angels
Movie Producer
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1957
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Movie Producer
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1957
The Girl in the Kremlin
Movie Producer
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1957
The Tattered Dress
Movie Producer
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1957
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Movie Producer
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1956
Written on the Wind
Movie Producer
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1956
Star in the Dust
Movie Producer
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1956
Raw Edge
Movie Producer
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1956
Red Sundown
Movie Producer
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1955
The Square Jungle
Movie Producer
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1955
Female on the Beach
Movie Producer
