# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/darryl-f-zanuck
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:38:40.876Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/darryl-f-zanuck"
name: "Darryl F. Zanuck"
slug: "darryl-f-zanuck"
description: "Darryl Francis Zanuck was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era. Best known as a co-founder of 20th Century Fox, he played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors. Zanuck produced three films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture and won the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award twice, the only person to receive more than one."
tagline: "American film producer (1902–1979)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Darryl_F._Zanuck_1964.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1902-09-05"
deathDate: "1979-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump