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Albert Zugsmith
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: April 24, 1910 in Atlantic City, NJ Death: October 26, 1993 Biography:Atlantic City-born "Albert Zugsmith" started out as a newspaper editor and publisher before turning to broadcasting in the '40s. He became a film producer during the mid-'50s and was responsible for several unusual and high-quality films from Universal, including Written on the Wind, "The Incredible Shrinking Man", and "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" (all 1957), "The Tarnished Angels" (1958), and his production of Man in the Shadow, which offered a role to a then financially pressed "Orson Welles". This led to Welles' making "Touch of Evil" (1958) -- his last American film, and one of his finest movies -- for Universal, with Zugsmith producing. When Zugsmith moved to MGM in 1958, however, the kind of movies that he was making changed radically, beginning with "High School Confidential", an exploitation movie directed by "Jack Arnold" and starring "Russ Tamblyn", "Mamie Van Doren", "Jan Sterling", and John... Full Biography
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