Biography
Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902 – December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era. He played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career was rivaled only by that of Adolph Zukor). He produced three films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture during his tenure. Zanuck was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, the son of Sarah Louise (née Torpin), ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Rat Pack
2022
as Self (archive footage)
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bish...

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
as Self (archive footage)
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005
as Self (archive footage)
How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to wa...

Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
2001
as Self (archive footage)
Darryl F. Zanuck ignores the protests of his peers and makes a movie about antisemitism called "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947).

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
2001
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.

Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary about how the creative energies of Darryl F. Zanuck and John Ford combined to forge an enduring masterpiece despite the challenges of wart...

Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.

Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
1995
as Self (archive footage)
A biography of Darryl F. Zanuck, mogul and the power behind 20th Century Fox throughout the Golden Age.

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highly respected filmmakers in the world.

Hung Up
1973
Producer
A woman from a bourgeois family marries a loveless man. She remembers (or dreams?) a life of adventure and smuggling, hijacking ships at night. She is...

Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Executive Producer
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! ...

D-Day Revisited
1968
as Self
Darryl F. Zanuck revisits the places where 'The Longest Day' had filmed, with excepts from the movie and he tells the story of D-Day.

The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965
Executive Producer
During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes ...

The Visit
1964
Producer
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning,...

The Chapman Report
1962
Producer
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.

The Longest Day
1962
Producer
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the d...

The Big Gamble
1961
Producer
Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation i...

Sanctuary
1961
Producer
In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple,...

Crack in the Mirror
1960
Writer, Producer
Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this ambitious drama. In the first segment, Hagolin is ...

The Roots of Heaven
1958
Producer
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support from a nightclub hostess and an ex-soldier. His cause...

The Barbarian and the Geisha
1958
Executive Producer
Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to...

The Sun Also Rises
1957
Producer
A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.

Island in the Sun
1957
Producer
A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.

The King and I
1956
Executive Producer
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna an...

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956
Producer
Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which ...

On the Threshold of Space
1956
Executive Producer
In the early stages of the space program, Capt. Jim Hollenbeck undergoes any experiment needed to ensure success in the new Air Force branch -- even t...

Good Morning, Miss Dove
1955
Executive Producer
Miss Dove is a prim New England school teacher who is treasured by her students in the small town of Liberty Hill. When she falls ill, a kindly doctor...

The View from Pompey's Head
1955
Executive Producer
Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales...

Seven Cities of Gold
1955
Executive Producer
In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new convert...

Broken Lance
1954
Executive Producer
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility...

The Egyptian
1954
Producer
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new ...

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
1953
Executive Producer
Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the ...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952
Producer
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

With a Song in My Heart
1952
Executive Producer
Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Jane'...

Viva Zapata!
1952
Producer
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the...
The CinemaScope Parade
1951
as Self
A short feature that showcases 20th Century Fox's new anamorphic widescreen film process.

People Will Talk
1951
Producer
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodo...

David and Bathsheba
1951
Producer
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.

All About Eve
1950
Producer
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Cha...
The Screen Writer
1950
as Self (uncredited)
This short film focuses on the job of the Hollywood screenwriter.

No Way Out
1950
Presenter, Producer
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.

Night and the City
1950
Executive Producer
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed...

The Gunfighter
1950
Executive Producer
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

A Ticket to Tomahawk
1950
Executive Producer
A cowboy is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting him out of business. He uses everything from Indians to...

Under My Skin
1950
Executive Producer
Set in Paris, Under My Skin stars John Garfield as a washed-up jockey who has stolen money from a crooked gambler (Luther Adler).

Twelve O'Clock High
1949
Producer
In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deal...

Everybody Does It
1949
Executive Producer
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to...

Father Was a Fullback
1949
Executive Producer
Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup, and...

Pinky
1949
Producer
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her g...

Slattery's Hurricane
1949
Executive Producer
A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story...

Sand
1949
Executive Producer
Novelist Will James, a specialist in horse stories, wrote the yarn upon which 20th Century-Fox's Sand was based. Mark Stevens plays horse breeder Jeff...

You're My Everything
1949
Executive Producer
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and ...

It Happens Every Spring
1949
Executive Producer
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.

The Fan
1949
Executive Producer
Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he ...

The Forbidden Street
1949
Executive Producer
In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarre...

The Walls of Jericho
1948
Executive Producer
In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.

That Wonderful Urge
1948
Executive Producer
When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely cla...

The Snake Pit
1948
Executive Producer
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions an...

Apartment for Peggy
1948
Executive Producer
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be ...

Cry of the City
1948
Executive Producer
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his clien...

Road House
1948
Executive Producer
A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with hi...

The Iron Curtain
1948
Presenter
The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to t...

Give My Regards to Broadway
1948
Executive Producer
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.

Fury at Furnace Creek
1948
Executive Producer
The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, he...

Sitting Pretty
1948
Executive Producer
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter,...

Call Northside 777
1948
Executive Producer
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal t...

Captain from Castile
1947
Executive Producer
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to f...

Gentleman's Agreement
1947
Producer
A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.

Forever Amber
1947
Executive Producer
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavalie...

Nightmare Alley
1947
Executive Producer
Roustabout Stanton Carlisle joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoho...

The Foxes of Harrow
1947
Executive Producer
An Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orleans to become fabulously rich.

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
1947
Additional Writing
A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye,...

Moss Rose
1947
Executive Producer
When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the...

The Homestretch
1947
Executive Producer
A young couple's marriage is threatened by the husband's love of horses and the racetrack circuit.

Carnival in Costa Rica
1947
Executive Producer
Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.

Boomerang!
1947
Executive Producer
When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the p...

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
1947
Executive Producer
In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men ...

The Razor's Edge
1946
Producer
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at...

Centennial Summer
1946
Executive Producer
In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters vie for the affections of a Frenchman who's come to town to prepare the French pavilion for the Centennial expositio...

Somewhere in the Night
1946
Executive Producer
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder ca...

Strange Triangle
1946
Executive Producer
In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married. This woman has expensive tas...

Dragonwyck
1946
Producer
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually...

Claudia and David
1946
Executive Producer
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Conne...

Leave Her to Heaven
1945
Executive Producer, Presenter
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.

Winged Victory
1944
Producer
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with ...

Wilson
1944
Producer
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, an...

Buffalo Bill
1944
Executive Producer
Scout William F. Cody marries a U.S. senator's daughter, fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.

The Purple Heart
1944
Story, Producer
This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in cap...

Lifeboat
1944
Executive Producer
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-bo...

Wintertime
1943
Executive Producer
Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her...

Show-Business at War
1943
as Self
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

Crash Dive
1943
Executive Producer
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new...

China Girl
1942
Screenplay, Producer
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes fro...

The Black Swan
1942
Executive Producer
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccane...

To the Shores of Tripoli
1942
Producer
Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.

Thunder Birds
1942
Story, Executive Producer
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Sta...

The Pied Piper
1942
Executive Producer
Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded ...

Moontide
1942
Executive Producer
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.

This Above All
1942
Producer
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with t...

Song of the Islands
1942
Executive Producer
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by tr...

Sex Hygiene
1942
Producer
Several servicemen relax by playing pool, but one of them goes off to spend time with a prostitute. Later, he discovers he has contracted a venereal d...

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942
Director
Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While h...

How Green Was My Valley
1941
Producer
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

Week-End in Havana
1941
Executive Producer
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waiver...

A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941
Story, Producer
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

Sun Valley Serenade
1941
Executive Producer
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When ...

Wild Geese Calling
1941
Executive Producer
In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries dancehall girl Sally, he finds she used to be in love with h...

Moon Over Miami
1941
Executive Producer
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich...

Man Hunt
1941
Executive Producer
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured,...

Blood and Sand
1941
Producer
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face re...

The Great American Broadcast
1941
Producer
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coa...

That Night in Rio
1941
Producer
An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.

Western Union
1941
Executive Producer
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern...

Tobacco Road
1941
Producer
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existe...

Tall, Dark and Handsome
1941
Executive Producer
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.

Hudson's Bay
1941
Producer
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the F...

Know For Sure
1941
Producer
A 1941 film encouraging people to seek treatment if they had, or might have had, syphilis.

Chad Hanna
1940
Producer
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.

The Mark of Zorro
1940
Executive Producer
In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On one hand, he plays the useless ...

Down Argentine Way
1940
Producer
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—...

Brigham Young
1940
Producer
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settl...

Public Deb No. 1
1940
Producer
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his c...

The Great Profile
1940
Producer
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel...

The Return of Frank James
1940
Producer
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

The Man I Married
1940
Producer
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
as Self
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...

Maryland
1940
Producer
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his fa...

Four Sons
1940
Producer
Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.

Lillian Russell
1940
Producer
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Star Dust
1940
Producer
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Producer
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncl...

Little Old New York
1940
Producer
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

The Blue Bird
1940
Producer
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're ...

Swanee River
1939
Producer
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, t...

Too Busy to Work
1939
Producer
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their househ...

Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
Producer
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosper...

Hollywood Cavalcade
1939
Producer
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for ...

Here I Am a Stranger
1939
Producer
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

The Rains Came
1939
Producer
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken art...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939
Producer
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, ...

Stanley and Livingstone
1939
Producer
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Afric...

Hotel for Women
1939
Producer
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.

Second Fiddle
1939
Executive Producer
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

Susannah of the Mounties
1939
Executive Producer
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canad...

Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
Producer
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first l...

The Gorilla
1939
Executive In Charge Of Production
When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and...

Rose of Washington Square
1939
Producer
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939
Producer
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939
Executive Producer
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds tha...

Wife, Husband and Friend
1939
Producer
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer ...

Tail Spin
1939
Producer
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to r...

Jesse James
1939
Producer
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Kentucky
1938
Executive Producer
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with ...

Submarine Patrol
1938
Producer
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.

Just Around the Corner
1938
Producer
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.

Suez
1938
Producer
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

My Lucky Star
1938
Producer
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertise...

Gateway
1938
Producer
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in h...

Little Miss Broadway
1938
Producer
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wa...

I'll Give a Million
1938
Producer
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is k...

Always Goodbye
1938
Producer
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is ...

Three Blind Mice
1938
Producer
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite an...

Josette
1938
Executive Producer
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they b...

Kentucky Moonshine
1938
Producer
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.

In Old Chicago
1938
Producer
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938
Producer
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secr...

Sally, Irene and Mary
1938
Executive Producer
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

International Settlement
1938
Producer
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).

Happy Landing
1938
Producer
Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.

Love and Hisses
1937
Producer
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

Heidi
1937
Producer
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Krame...

Lancer Spy
1937
Executive Producer
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check h...

Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937
Producer
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.

Thin Ice
1937
Producer
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.

Wake Up and Live
1937
Producer
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

Wee Willie Winkie
1937
Producer
In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he c...

Slave Ship
1937
Producer
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

Angel's Holiday
1937
Producer
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline K...

This Is My Affair
1937
Production Manager
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Pa...

Seventh Heaven
1937
Producer
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the sev...

Nancy Steele Is Missing!
1937
Producer
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her ...

Love Is News
1937
Executive In Charge Of Production
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are e...

On the Avenue
1937
Producer
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, b...

Banjo on My Knee
1936
Executive Producer
A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife.

White Hunter
1936
Producer
Safari guide Capt. Clark Rutledge is hired by the man Michael Varek who was responsible for his father's death...

Lloyd's of London
1936
Production Manager
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, t...

Reunion
1936
Executive Producer
Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for del...

Pigskin Parade
1936
Producer
Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a h...

Ladies in Love
1936
Executive In Charge Of Production
Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.

Ramona
1936
Executive Producer
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by t...

The Road to Glory
1936
Producer
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and m...

Sing, Baby, Sing
1936
Producer
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolph...

To Mary - with Love
1936
Producer
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keepin...

Poor Little Rich Girl
1936
Producer
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en ...

White Fang
1936
Producer
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.

Private Number
1936
Production Manager
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler a...

Half Angel
1936
Producer
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.

Under Two Flags
1936
Producer
Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle...

The Country Beyond
1936
Producer
A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.

A Message to Garcia
1936
Producer
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.

The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
Producer
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865...

It Had to Happen
1936
Producer
A poor boy rises to power in politics.

Professional Soldier
1935
Producer
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to k...

The Littlest Rebel
1935
Production Manager
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and se...

Show Them No Mercy!
1935
Producer
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1935
Producer
A Russian prince goes to Monte Carlo just after World War I with money supplied to him by Parisian Russians. He wins but the casino operators want him...

Thanks a Million
1935
Producer
A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be replac...

Metropolitan
1935
Producer
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and com...

Call of the Wild
1935
Producer
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck...

'G' Men
1935
Novel
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend...

Les Misérables
1935
Producer
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...

Cardinal Richelieu
1935
Producer
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.

Folies Bergère
1935
Producer
An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.

Clive of India
1935
Producer
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyo...

The Mighty Barnum
1934
Producer
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Ja...

The Affairs of Cellini
1934
Producer
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934
Producer
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisti...

Born to Be Bad
1934
Producer
Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be tak...

The Last Gentleman
1934
Producer
In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for...

The House of Rothschild
1934
Producer
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the busine...

Looking for Trouble
1934
Producer
Joe and Casey trouble-shoot for the phone company. They try to prove that Joes's girl Ethel's boss Dan is a crook but are trapped by criminals and lef...

Moulin Rouge
1934
Producer
A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears th...

Lady Killer
1933
Story
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.

Gallant Lady
1933
Producer
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.

Advice to the Lovelorn
1933
Producer
Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advic...

Blood Money
1933
Producer
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, ...

The Bowery
1933
Producer
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was k...

Baby Face
1933
Story
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her hap...

Ex-Lady
1933
Producer
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.

The Working Man
1933
Producer
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor;...

The 42nd Street Special
1933
as Self
As part of a publicity campaign for the film 42nd Street (1933), Warner Bros. Pictures, with the assistance of the General Electric Corporation, assem...

Parachute Jumper
1933
Producer
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.

20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
Producer
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Three on a Match
1932
Producer
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery ...

The Cabin in the Cotton
1932
Producer
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

Life Begins
1932
Executive Producer
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situati...

Doctor X
1932
Executive Producer
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

The Dark Horse
1932
Producer, Story
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal B...

The Rich Are Always with Us
1932
Producer
A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.

The Man Who Played God
1932
Producer
While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royle is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assa...

Blonde Crazy
1931
Executive Producer
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

The Public Enemy
1931
Producer
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blo...

Illicit
1931
Producer
Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destro...

Little Caesar
1931
Producer
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

The Life of the Party
1930
Writer
Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.

The Doorway to Hell
1930
Executive Producer
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and ...

Maybe It's Love
1930
Story
A very young Joan Bennett tops the cast as Nan Sheffield, the daughter of a college president. The nominal leading man is Tommy Nelson, the black-shee...

Three Faces East
1930
Producer
During World War I, a female agent tries to unmask a German spy.

The Show of Shows
1929
Producer
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the firs...

On With the Show!
1929
Producer
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the l...

Madonna of Avenue A
1929
Story
A young woman is shocked to discover that her mother, who she always believed was a stylish and successful member of upper-crust society, is actually ...

Hardboiled Rose
1929
Story
A Southern Belle must work in a gambling house to pay off her father's debts, which drove him to suicide. She then meets a man who sweeps her off her ...

My Man
1928
Story
Fannie Brand, an industrious girl who supports her brother and sister by working in a theatrical costume house, falls in love with Joe Halsey, a young...

Noah's Ark
1928
Story, Associate Producer
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

The Singing Fool
1928
Producer
After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his song...

The Terror
1928
Producer
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".

The Midnight Taxi
1928
Story
The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costell...

State Street Sadie
1928
Story
Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery. Considered a lost film.

Lights of New York
1928
Production Supervisor
Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.

Pay as You Enter
1928
Story
Trolley car conductor Clyde Jones and bus conductor "Terrible Bill" Jones are arch rivals for the hand of coffee-shop owner Mary Smith.

Tenderloin
1928
Story, Producer
Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the ...

Ham and Eggs at the Front
1927
Story
Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.

Jaws of Steel
1927
Writer
Our doggy hero is abandoned in the desert while in pup-hood. Upon reaching maturity, Tin Tin has undeservedly earned the reputation as a killer canine...

Old San Francisco
1927
Writer, Producer
In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.

The Desired Woman
1927
Story, Associate Producer
The beautiful and cultured Lady Diana Whitney marries Captain Maxwell of the British Army. When he is transferred to the Sahara, life at his remote po...

The First Auto
1927
Producer, Story
The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.

The Black Diamond Express
1927
Story
Dan Foster, the engineer of the Black Diamond Express express train falls in love with Jeanne Harmon, whose snobbish, high society mother, Mrs. Harmon...

Simple Sis
1927
Story
Simple Sis is a 1927 American silent comedy-melodrama directed by Herman C. Raymaker and starring Louise Fazenda as a poor, plain laundress hoping for...

Irish Hearts
1927
Story
Sheila, a feisty Irish girl, loves Emmett, a somewhat shady Irish boy. When Emmett goes to America, Sheila and her father follow and join him. However...

Tracked by the Police
1927
Story
The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or stock-raising. Rival companies bid for the building c...

The Missing Link
1927
Scenario Writer
Arthur Wells, an impoverished poet, impersonates a big-game hunter in an attempt to locate the missing link. However, the poet has an aversion to anim...

Wolf's Clothing
1927
Screenplay
Barry Baline, a guard at a subway station, has worked at his job for six years without a day off. One New Year's Eve he's told that he won't be needed...

The Better 'Ole
1926
Screenplay
The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.

Across the Pacific
1926
Adaptation
Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do thi...

So This Is Paris
1926
Producer
Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers i...

Footloose Widows
1926
Writer
Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith. Through a misunderstanding, they pick on the ...

Oh! What a Nurse!
1926
Scenario Writer
Oh! What a Nurse! is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film stars Sydney Chaplin, Patsy Rut...

The Little Irish Girl
1926
Adaptation
Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny...

The Cave Man
1926
Writer
A bored society girl cuts a hundred dollar bill in half, writes a message on one half for whoever finds it and throws it out the window of her apartme...

Lady Windermere's Fan
1925
Producer
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
Hogan's Alley
1925
Writer
Lefty O'Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael. They both live in an Irish-Jewish neighb...

Seven Sinners
1925
Story
Six burglars separately break into the Vickers mansion on Long Island to loot the safe but catch each other in the act. They all pretend to be members...

Red Hot Tires
1925
Story
The first time Al Jones sees Elizabeth Lowden, he becomes so distracted that he runs his car into a steamroller. The second time he sees her, Elizabet...

The Limited Mail
1925
Writer
Bob Wilson, who becomes a tramp after being jilted by his fiancée, prevents the Limited Mail from being wrecked during a mountain storm and becomes fa...

Eve's Lover
1925
Scenario Writer, Producer
Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can ...

A Broadway Butterfly
1925
Writer
Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets up with Cookie, a worldly choru...

The Lighthouse by the Sea
1924
Writer
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of l...

Find Your Man
1924
Writer
Paul Andrews returns from the World War with Buddy, a dog he found in Europe. Instead of getting a warm welcome, he finds his sweetheart, Caroline Bla...

Sherlock's Home
1924
Scenario Writer
Gladys falls for a prizefighter who has invited his entire hometown to watch his fight in New York City. However, he gets crazy jealous when he sees G...
Money to Burns
1924
Co-Writer
After having difficulty coming up with a new story idea, a writer pays a fellow to allow him to follow him around in hopes it will encourage his liter...
Fighting Blood
1923
Writer
Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clar...
Fighting Blood
1923
Writer
Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark...
Fighting Blood
1923
Writer
Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clar...