Albert Zugsmith

About

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...

Known for

Touch of EvilMovie • 1958Written on the WindMovie • 1956The Incredible Shrinking ManMovie • 1957The Tattered DressMovie • 1957Female on the BeachMovie • 1955The Tarnished AngelsMovie • 1957Star in the DustMovie • 1956Man in the ShadowMovie • 1957The Thing with Two HeadsMovie • 1972Fanny HillMovie • 1964High School Confidential!Movie • 1958Confessions of an Opium EaterMovie • 1962Invasion, U.S.A.Movie • 1952Red SundownMovie • 1956Girls TownMovie • 1959