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Director, producer, screenwriter. Years active. 1952–1974. 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 Whiteman), public relations (one of ...
Albert Zugsmith was born on 24 April 1910 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Touch of Evil (1958), Sappho Darling (1968) and The Cult (1971). He died on 26 October 1993 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- April 24, 1910
- October 26, 1993
Confessions of an Opium Eater: Directed by Albert Zugsmith. With Vincent Price, Linda Ho, Richard Loo, June Kyoto Lu. In 19th-century San Francisco's Chinatown, American adventurer Gilbert De Quincey saves slave girls owned by the Chinese Tong factions.
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Albert Zugsmith was born on 24 April 1910 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Touch of Evil (1958) , Sappho Darling (1968) and The Cult (1971) . He died on 26 October 1993 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Producer, Director, Writer
- April 24, 1910
- Albert Zugsmith
- October 26, 1993
In the Zugsmith-directed Psychopathia Sexualis aka On Her Bed of Roses (1966), a nymphomaniac falls in love with an impotent mama’s boy/mass murderer. In Touch of Evil, fat, alcoholic Hank Quinlan (Welles) compulsively reenacts the murder of his wife, using Akim Tamiroff’s character as a surrogate! Casting.
Quantity 81.87 cubic ft. (106 boxes) Collection Number 07870 Summary The Albert Zugsmith papers contain business and personal correspondence, clippings, financial and legal documents, publicity and advertising materials related to films that Zugsmith produced, wrote, and directed, scripts, outlines, and story treatments for both produced and unproduced movies, as well as production files ...
Jun 1, 2003 · Albert Zugsmith, ostracized in Hollywood for his subversive tendencies, is better known today as a producer rather than a director. Between 1956 and 1958, he produced several films, among them Jack Arnold’s The Incredible Shrinking Man , Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind and The Tarnished Angels , and Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil .
