Albert Zugsmith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Albert Zugsmith

director, producer and screenwriter

Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1910

Place of Birth: Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 26-Oct-1993

Profession: screenwriter, actor, film director, film producer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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 Capone), 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 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 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.