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Mar 28, 2017 · Richard Zanuck oversaw a number of hit movies as Fox’s Head of Production – The Sound of Music (1965), Planet of the Apes ((1968) and Patton (1970), to name but three; but a string of costume musicals failed and cost the studio a bundle. Even so, he was traveling better than his father by then.
At age six, Zanuck and his mother moved to Los Angeles, where the better climate could improve her poor health. At age eight, he found his first movie job as an extra, but his disapproving father recalled him to Nebraska.
Aug 16, 2018 · A year younger than Walt, Darryl also lied about his age… and his name. Having been abandoned by his father at sixteen and without his mother, he enlisted as Darryl F. Zanuck with a...
Dec 23, 2003 · Mr. Zanuck knows how to tell a story, and many are about his father, who ran Fox's Hollywood studio for 48 years. Like the time his father called him to New York for a Fox corporate board...
Jul 11, 2010 · This was perhaps the beginning of Zanuck’s interest in American historical stories, particularly those that focused on a “great man,” since Zanuck was particularly close to his grandfather. (1) Zanuck entered the film business first as a writer.
- Tom Stempel
May 18, 2018 · Wandering the streets of Los Angeles looking for his father, Zanuck was picked up by the police and brought to his mother. She made it clear she did not want her 12-year-old son around and shipped him back to Nebraska to be raised by his Torpin grandparents.
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While there, Zanuck's mother found him his first job in the movies as a walk-on when he was only eight years old. While he was growing up in California with his mother, his father became concerned about Darryl growing up without his father's presence.
