Richard D. Zanuck

Infobox Actor
name = Richard D. Zanuck

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imagesize = 300px
caption = Producer Richard Zanuck at the 62nd Annual Academy Awards (3/26/90).
birthname = Richard Darryl Zanuck
birthdate = birth date and age|1934|12|13
location = Los Angeles, California
yearsactive = 1959 - present
spouse = Lili Gentle (1958-1968)
Linda Harrison (1969-1978)
Lili Fini (1978-)
children = Harrison Zanuck (b.1971)
Dean Zanuck (b.1972)
parents = Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979)
Virginia Fox (1902-1982)
academyawards = Best Picture
1989 "Driving Miss Daisy"
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
1991 Lifetime Achievement

Richard Darryl Zanuck (born December 13, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American film producer.

Born in Los Angeles, California, he is the son of Darryl F. Zanuck, the famed head of Twentieth-Century Fox studios. While studying at Stanford University, Richard began his career in the film industry working for the Twentieth-Century Fox story department. In 1959, Zanuck got his first shot at producing when his father installed him as the producer of the film Compulsion. In the 1960's Zanuck became the president of his father's studio; one year of his tenure, 1967, is chronicled in the John Gregory Dunne book "The Studio". Richard was later fired by his father and joined Warner Brothers, although Zanuck was eventually fired from there too. In 1968 he married model and actress Linda Harrison; they later divorced in 1978.

In 1972, Zanuck joined up with David Brown to form an independent production company called Zanuck/Brown Productions. With help from Universal Pictures, the pair produced two of Steven Spielberg's early films, "The Sugarland Express" (1974) and "Jaws" (1975). They went on to produce such box office hits as "Cocoon" (1985) and "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989) before dissolving their partnership in 1988. Nevertheless, they were jointly awarded The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1990.

In 2000, Zanuck and his third wife Lili Fini Zanuck co-produced the 72nd Academy Awards ceremony. [cite press release
title = Richard and Lili Fini Zanuck to Produce 72nd Oscar® Telecast
publisher = Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
date = 1999-09-29
url = http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/1999/99.09.29.html
accessdate = 2008-07-16 ]

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External links

*imdb name|id=0005573|name=Richard D. Zanuck
* [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/08/sunday/main707725.shtml The Zanucks: Reel Royalty]

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NAME= Zanuck, Richard Darryl
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DATE OF BIRTH= December 13, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH= Los Angeles, California, United States
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