Albert Zugsmith

Biography

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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Thing with Two Heads (1972) — Cameo (uncredited)
2. Fanny Hill (1964) — Grand Duke
3. Douglas Sirk: Über Stars (1980) — Self
4. Acting for Douglas Sirk (2008) — Self (archive footage)

Directed

1. Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962) — Director
2. Sex Kittens Go to College (1960) — Director
3. Violated! (1973) — Director
4. Dondi (1961) — Director
5. The Phantom Gunslinger (1970) — Director
6. Sappho Darling (1968) — Director
7. The Manson Massacre (1971) — Director
8. Psychedelic Sexualis (1966) — Director
9. The Chinese Room (1968) — Director
10. Two Roses and a Golden Rod (1969) — Director
11. The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960) — Director
12. The Incredible Sex Revolution (1965) — Director
13. College Confidential (1960) — Director
14. Movie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You (1966) — Director
15. The Very Friendly Neighbors (1969) — Director