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Alfred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997) was an Austrian-American film director and producer. He won four Academy Awards for directing and producing films in various genres, including thrillers, westerns, film noir and play adaptations.
Zinnemann’s next project, From Here to Eternity (1953), the screen version of James Jones ’s enormously successful best seller about a group of U.S. soldiers in Hawaii on the eve of the Pearl Harbor attack, was among the most-anticipated film releases of the early 1950s.
- Michael Barson
Jun 13, 2016 · Mr. Zinnemann, when you had first arrived in Hollywood, one of the people who was instrumental in helping you find your way around was Vienna-born writer-director Berthold Viertel who by then had already made a few films in Hollywood. Is that correct? That’s true.
May 11, 2018 · Despite this success, Zinnemann's next film, Man's Fate, was cancelled by the MGM studio just before Zinnemann was set to begin shooting. Zinnemann rebounded in the 1970s, however, with the taut thriller The Day of the Jackal (1973), in which he returned to his classic detached style.
Fred Zinnemann. Director: A Man for All Seasons. Initially grew up wanting to be a violinist, but while at the University of Vienna decided to study law. While doing so, he became increasingly interested in American film and decided that was what he wanted to do.
- April 29, 1907
- March 14, 1997
Dec 2, 2008 · After his contract expired in 1948, he became a free director, working with producers such as Stanley Kramer, Buddy Adler, and Henry Blanke.
Apr 29, 2019 · Zinnemann first became assistant to the Austrian director Berthold Viertel and met Robert J. Flaherty through him. He arranged for Zinnemann to direct his first documentary feature film The Wave (Redes) about the exploitation of Mexican fishermen.
