Albert Zugsmith

Production·Apr 24, 1910·Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

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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.

Film	Credit
AActing for Douglas Sirk2008 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
DDouglas Sirk: Über Stars1980 · Self	Self
Violated!1973 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Thing with Two Heads1972 · Cameo (uncredited)	Cameo (uncredited)
The Manson Massacre1971 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Phantom Gunslinger1970 · Director	Director
Two Roses and a Golden Rod1969 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Very Friendly Neighbors1969 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Sappho Darling1968 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
The Chinese Room1968 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Psychedelic Sexualis1966 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Movie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You1966 · Director	Director
The Incredible Sex Revolution1965 · Director	Director
Fanny Hill1964 · Grand Duke, Producer	Grand Duke, Producer
ZZigzag1963 · Producer	Producer
Confessions of an Opium Eater1962 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Dondi1961 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
College Confidential1960 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Sex Kittens Go to College1960 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve1960 · Director	Director
Girls Town1959 · Producer	Producer
The Big Operator1959 · Producer	Producer
The Beat Generation1959 · Producer	Producer
Night of the Quarter Moon1959 · Producer	Producer
High School Confidential!1958 · Producer	Producer
Touch of Evil1958 · Producer	Producer
The Female Animal1958 · Producer	Producer
Man in the Shadow1957 · Producer	Producer
The Tarnished Angels1957 · Producer	Producer
Slaughter on 10th Avenue1957 · Producer	Producer
The Girl in the Kremlin1957 · Producer	Producer
The Tattered Dress1957 · Producer	Producer
The Incredible Shrinking Man1957 · Producer	Producer
Written on the Wind1956 · Producer	Producer
Star in the Dust1956 · Producer	Producer
Raw Edge1956 · Producer	Producer
Red Sundown1956 · Producer	Producer
The Square Jungle1955 · Producer	Producer
Female on the Beach1955 · Producer	Producer
Invasion, U.S.A.1952 · Producer	Producer