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Darryl F. Zanuck
Film Producer
Male
Born
Sep 5, 1902
Hometown
Wahoo, Nebraska
Died
Dec 22, 1979
Death Place
Palm Springs, Cal...
Other Names
Zanuck, Darryl Fr...
Darryl Francis Zanuck was an American producer, writer, actor, director and studio executive who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors. He earned three Academy Awards during his tenure.
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CHILDHOOD
1902
Birth
Born on September 5, 1902.
TEENAGE
1918
15 Years Old
In 1918, despite being sixteen, he deceived a recruiter and joined the United States Army and served in France with the Nebraska National Guard.
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1922
19 Years Old
He found work producing movie plots, selling his first story in 1922 to William Russell and his second to Irving Thalberg.
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TWENTIES

1924
21 Years Old
Zanuck then worked for Mack Sennett and took that experience to Warner Bros. where he wrote stories for Rin Tin Tin and under a number of pseudonyms wrote over forty scripts from 1924–1929, including Old San Francisco (1927).
1929
26 Years Old
He moved into management in 1929, and became head of production in 1931.
THIRTIES

1933
30 Years Old
In 1933 he left Warners to found 20th Century Films with Joseph Schenck and William Goetz, releasing their material through United Artists.
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FORTIES
FIFTIES
1956
53 Years Old
He left his wife, Virginia Fox, in 1956 and moved to Europe to concentrate on producing.
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1962
59 Years Old
He returned to control Fox in 1962, replacing Spyros Skouras, in a confrontation over the release of Zanuck's production of The Longest Day as the studio struggled to finish the difficult production of Cleopatra.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1969
66 Years Old
He became involved in a power struggle with the board and his son circa 1969.
1979
77 Years Old
Died on December 22, 1979.
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