Dean Zanuck 1972
Dean Zanuck (born 1972) is an American film producer and studio executive who continued the Zanuck family’s Hollywood legacy, producing films including Road to Perdition, Get Low, and The Zero Theorem.
Stage and Screen Performer
Dean Zanuck was born in Los Angeles on August 11, 1972. His father was Richard D. Zanuck [1934-2012], a film producer and Linda Melson Harrison, an actress. His paternal grandparents were Darryl F. Zanuck [1902-1979], film producer and co-founder of 20th Century Fox, and Virginia Fox [1902-1982], a silent era film actress. She had been Zanuck’s wife for 55 years.
Dean is married to Marisa Zanuck, a real estate agent who is featured on “The Real Housewives of Beverley Hills”, a reality TV series on the Bravo TV network. The couple has two children, a son Jack and a daughter Darryl.
Dean has been an executive at the Zanuck Company for about 15 years. In 2002 he formed a new division named Zanuck Independent for the development and production of independent movies.
Dean has been involved in movie production as a production executive in six films, and in six additional films as the producer or co-producer.
The six films in which Dean served as production executive were:
“Deep Impact” in 1998; “Planet of the Apes” in 2001; “Big Fish” in 2003; “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” in 2005; “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” in 2007 and “Yes Man” in 2008.
The six films in which he served as a producer or co-producer were:
“Reign of Fire”, co-producer in 2002; “Road to Perdition”, producer in 2002; “Dead Lawyers”, executive producer in 2004, “Get Low”, producer in 2009; “Tontine Massacre’, producer in 2010, and “The Zero Theorem”, producer in 2013.
Some of the film stars who have been acted in films produced by Dean Zanuck are Tom Hanks, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Bill Murray. As a relatively young man Dean Zanuck still has a long potential career ahead of him in the movie production industry.
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