Albert Zugsmith
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Albert Zugsmith (1910 - 1993) was an American film producer and director who specialized in low-budget exploitation films through the 1950s and 1960s.
With a background in journalism, 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 High School Confidential and The Girl in the Kremlin.
[edit] External links
- imdb page on Zugsmith
- biographical page
- All Movie Guide page
- Albert Zugsmith at Find-A-Grave
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