Albert Zugsmith

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.

Crew

Touch of Evil

(Producer)

Fanny Hill

(Producer)

Sappho Darling

(Screenplay)

The Incredible Shrinking Man

(Producer)

Star in the Dust

(Producer)

Man in the Shadow

(Producer)

The Beat Generation

(Producer)

Female on the Beach

(Producer)

College Confidential

(Director)

College Confidential

(Story)

Confessions of an Opium Eater

(Director)

The Tattered Dress

(Producer)

Raw Edge

(Producer)

Sex Kittens Go to College

(Director)

Violated!

(Director)

Violated!

(Writer)

Movie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You

(Director)

Dondi

(Director)

Two Roses and a Golden Rod

(Director)

The Private Lives of Adam and Eve

(Director)

The Girl in the Kremlin

(Producer)

The Square Jungle

(Producer)

College Confidential

(Producer)

The Private Lives of Adam and Eve

(Presenter)

The Manson Massacre

(Writer)

The Manson Massacre

(Director)

The Incredible Sex Revolution

(Director)

The Phantom Gunslinger

(Director)

Psychedelic Sexualis

(Writer)

Psychedelic Sexualis

(Director)

The Very Friendly Neighbors

(Director)

Captive Women

(Associate Producer)

The Chinese Room

(Director)

Invasion, U.S.A.

(Producer)

Written on the Wind

(Producer)

The Chinese Room

(Screenplay)

Red Sundown

(Producer)

High School Confidential!

(Producer)

Dondi

(Writer)

Dondi

(Producer)

The Tarnished Angels

(Producer)

Confessions of an Opium Eater

(Producer)

Port Sinister

(Associate Producer)

Sword of Venus

(Associate Producer)

Sex Kittens Go to College

(Story)

Sex Kittens Go to College

(Producer)

Two Roses and a Golden Rod

(Writer)

Platinum High School

(Executive Producer)

The Big Operator

(Producer)

The Female Animal

(Story)

Night of the Quarter Moon

(Producer)

The Female Animal

(Producer)

Girls Town

(Producer)

Slaughter on 10th Avenue

(Producer)

Sappho Darling

(Director)

The Very Friendly Neighbors

(Writer)