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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
all 46
Movies 46
Producer 23
Director 18
self 2
Writer 2
Acting for Douglas Sirk (2008)
Douglas Sirk: Ãœber Stars (1980)
Violated! (1973)
The Thing with Two Heads (1972)
The Manson Massacre (1971)
The Phantom Gunslinger (1970)
Two Roses and a Golden Rod (1969)
The Very Friendly Neighbors (1969)
Sappho Darling (1968)
The Chinese Room (1968)
Psychedelic Sexualis (1966)
Movie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You (1966)
The Incredible Sex Revolution (1965)
Fanny Hill (1964)
Dog Eat Dog! (1964)
Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)
Dondi (1961)
College Confidential (1960)
Sex Kittens Go to College (1960)
Platinum High School (1960)
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960)
Girls Town (1959)
The Big Operator (1959)
The Beat Generation (1959)
Night of the Quarter Moon (1959)
High School Confidential! (1958)
Touch of Evil (1958)
The Female Animal (1958)
Man in the Shadow (1957)
The Tarnished Angels (1957)
Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1957)
The Girl in the Kremlin (1957)
The Tattered Dress (1957)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Written on the Wind (1956)
Star in the Dust (1956)
Raw Edge (1956)
Red Sundown (1956)
The Square Jungle (1955)
Female on the Beach (1955)
Top Banana (1954)
Paris Model (1953)
Port Sinister (1953)
Sword of Venus (1953)
Invasion, U.S.A. (1952)
Captive Women (1952)
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GenderMale
Birthday1910-04-24
Deathday1993-10-26 (83 years old)
Birth PlaceAtlantic City, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsAlbert H. Zugsmith, Kentucky Jones, Gunnar Steele, Al Zugsmith
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