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Fred Zinnemann was an Austrian-American film director who was active in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1970s. He was best known for directing such classic films as High Noon (1952), From Here to Eternity (1953), The Nun's Story (1959), and A Man for All Seasons (1966). He won four Academy Awards for Best Director, including two for From Here to Eternity and A Man for All Seasons. Zinnemann was born in Rzeszów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Poland) on April 29, 1907. He studied at the University of Vienna and the University of Berlin before moving to the United States in 1929. He began his career in Hollywood as an assistant director, working on such films as The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) and The Life of Emile Zola (1937). In the 1940s, Zinnemann directed a number of films, including The Search (1948), The Men (1950), and High Noon (1952). High Noon was a critical and commercial success, and earned Zinnemann his first Academy Award for Best Director. He followed this success with From Here to Eternity (1953), which won him his second Oscar. In the 1960s, Zinnemann directed a number of acclaimed films, including The Nun's Story (1959), The Sundowners (1960), and A Man for All Seasons (1966). A Man for All Seasons won him his third Oscar for Best Director. He also directed the classic western The Day of the Jackal (1973). Zinnemann retired from filmmaking in the late 1970s. He died in London on March 14, 1997, at the age of 89.

Popular As Alfred Zinnemann
Occupation director,assistant_director,producer
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 29 April 1907
Birthday 29 April
Birthplace Rzeszów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 14 March, 1997
Died Place London, England, UK
Nationality Austria

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Fred Zinnemann Height, Weight & Measurements

At 90 years old, Fred Zinnemann height is 5' 6½" (1.69 m) .

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Who Is Fred Zinnemann's Wife?

His wife is Renee Bartlett (9 October 1936 - 14 March 1997) ( his death) ( 1 child)

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Wife Renee Bartlett (9 October 1936 - 14 March 1997) ( his death) ( 1 child)
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Fred Zinnemann Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Fred Zinnemann worth at the age of 90 years old? Fred Zinnemann’s income source is mostly from being a successful Director. He is from Austria. We have estimated Fred Zinnemann's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

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2006

Is portrayed by Peter James Haworth in Hollywoodland (2006).

1994

Awarded first annual John Huston Award for Artists Rights. [1994]

1992

Is portrayed by Bruce Gray in Sinatra (1992) and by Walker Edmiston in Grace Kelly (1983)

1969

Zinneman's greatest disappointment as a director was the cancellation of "Man's Fate," adapted from the Andre Malraux novel, about a week before cameras were set to roll. All the sets were built, $4 million had been already spent, and the cast (Peter Finch, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, David Niven) had rehearsed a week to ten days in costume. James Aubrey had just taken over MGM in November 1969 when he pulled the plug. It was the studio's third corporate change in as many months. Zinneman bitterly remarked that it was "a shattering experience that took 4 1/2 years out of my life." The director had invested three years in preparation and over a year involved with the acrimonious lawsuit that followed.

1963

In 1963, it was announced that he would make a large-scale film for Twentieth Century Fox entitled, "The Day Custer Fell," about the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The film, scripted by Wendell Mayes, was to be made in Todd-AO on a budget of 18 million dollars, a huge sum then. Fox recently had enormous problems with Cleopatra (1963) and was reluctant to spend so much money quite so soon after that film, and Zinnemann also worried them by saying that he had planned not to use any big stars - although Fox had suggested an all-star cast along the lines of its recent hit, The Longest Day (1962). When Zinnemann's current movie, Behold a Pale Horse (1964) proved to be a critical and financial flop, the Custer project was quietly postponed, and Zinnemann instead made A Man for All Seasons (1966). This proved to be a huge success and an Oscar-winner, so the Custer movie plan was briefly revived in 1967; but it was still thought to be too expensive, and Fox executives were opposed to Zinnemann's desire to hire Japanese star Toshirô Mifune for the role of Sitting Bull. The announcement that a cheap version of the story was being made in Spain (Custer of the West (1967), starring Robert Shaw) led to the cancellation of the film.

1961

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961

1953

He directed two Best Picture Academy Award winners: From Here to Eternity (1953) and A Man for All Seasons (1966), and four other Best Picture nominees: High Noon (1952), The Nun's Story (1959), The Sundowners (1960) and Julia (1977).

1952

The Member of the Wedding (1952) is the director's personal favorite of his films. His favorite individual scene is Sir Thomas More's goodbye to his wife and daughter in A Man for All Seasons (1966).

1948

Directed 18 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Hume Cronyn, Montgomery Clift, Gary Cooper, Julie Harris, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Anthony Franciosa, Audrey Hepburn, Glynis Johns, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda and Maximilian Schell. Cooper, Redgrave, Robards, Sinatra, Reed and Scofield won Oscars for their performances in one of Zinneman's movies. Additionally, Ivan Jandl received a Juvenile Awards for is performance in Zinneman's The Search (1948).

1945

Among the projects that Zinneman was attached to but didn't do were The Clock (1945), _Hawaii_, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Old Man and the Sea (1958), and Custer of the West (1967). He also worked on "Abelard and Heloise" and "Man's Fate," neither of each was made.

1944

His first big-budget film was The Seventh Cross (1944), starring Spencer Tracy. The two men admired each other, but did not get on very well. A dozen or so years later, Zinnemann was set to direct Tracy in The Old Man and the Sea (1958), but they disagreed bitterly over Zinnemann's plan to make as much of the film as possible at sea and in a real fishing-boat. Zinnemann began filming second-unit footage of the ocean and fish with cameraman Floyd Crosby, but then left the project, and John Sturges replaced him as director. Some of his footage was in the final film, however.

1942

Zinneman was promoted from directing shorts at MGM to features when his boss Jack Chertok graduated into a producer for the studio. Their first film was Kid Glove Killer (1942).

1930

His main influence as a director was famed documentarian Robert J. Flaherty who made a huge impression on the young Zinnemann when he acted as assistant director to Flaherty on an early 1930s project that was ultimately abandoned.

1927

After abandoning his law studies at the University of Vienna, he was trained to be a cinematographer at the École Technique de Photographie in Paris (1927).

1924

According to Zinneman he was inspired to be a director by four films: Greed (1924), Battleship Potemkin (1925), The Big Parade (1925) and The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).

1890

Biography in: "John Wakeman, editor." "World Film Directors, Volume One," 1890- 1945, pp 1238-1247, New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.