Director
Darryl F. Zanuck
Born 1902-09-05Died 1979-12-22aged 77
Darryl F. Zanuck (1902–1979) is best known for The Longest Day, Western Union and Noah's Ark.
Darryl Francis Zanuck ( ZAN-ək; September 5, 1902 – December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era. Best known as a co-founder of 20th Century Fox, he played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career was rivaled only by that of Adolph Zukor). Zanuck produced three films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture and won the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award twice, the only person to receive more than one.