Fred Zinnemann (1907–1997)

Director | Assistant Director | Producer

Initially grew up wanting to be a violinist, but while at the University of Vienna decided to study...

Born: April 29, 1907
Died: March 14, 1997 (age 89)

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Filmography

Known For

A Man for All Seasons Director (1966)
From Here to Eternity Director (1953)
High Noon Director (1952)
Known For

The Nun's Story Director (1959)
Director

Five Days One Summer (1982)
Julia (1977)
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
The Sundowners (1960)
The Nun's Story (1959)
The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
Decision (1958)
A Hatful of Rain (1957)
Screen Directors Playhouse (1956)
Oklahoma! (1955)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
The Member of the Wedding (1952)
High Noon (1952)
Benjy (1951)
Teresa (1951)
The Men (1950)
Act of Violence (1948)
The Search (1948)
My Brother Talks to Horses (1947)
Little Mister Jim (1946)
The Clock (1945)
The Seventh Cross (1944)
Eyes in the Night (1942)
Kid Glove Killer (1942)
The Lady or the Tiger? (1942)
The Greenie (1942)
Your Last Act (1941)
Forbidden Passage (1941)
The Great Meddler (1940)
A Way in the Wilderness (1940)
Stuffie (1940)
The Old South (1940)
Forgotten Victory (1939)
The Ash Can Fleet (1939)
One Against the World (1939)
Help Wanted (1939)
While America Sleeps (1939)
Weather Wizards (1939)
They Live Again (1938)
Tracking the Sleeping Death (1938)
The Story of Doctor Carver (1938)
That Mothers Might Live (1938)
Friend Indeed (1937)
Redes (1936)
Director

People on Sunday (1930)
Producer

Five Days One Summer (1982)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
The Nun's Story (1959)
Producer

Benjy (1951)
Actor

Rece do góry (1981)
The Search Interpreter (1948)
Actor

All Quiet on the Western Front German Soldier / French Ambulance Driver (1930)
Writer

Redes (1936)
Writer

Peter Ibbetson (1935)
Archive footage

Making Montgomery Clift (2018)
Die Öscars (2016)
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015)
Sidney Korshak, la face cachée d'Hollywood (2014)
And the Oscar Goes to... (2014)
Filmmakers in Action (2005)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005)
Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents (2002)
He Walks in Beauty: The George Stevens Production 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' (2001)
George Stevens: The Filmmakers Who Knew Him (2001)
Archive footage

The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997)
The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955)
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Camille (1936)
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

The Man from Yesterday (1932)
The Wiser Sex (1932)
The Spy (1931)
Man Trouble (1930)
Camera and Electrical Department

People on Sunday (1930)
Camera and Electrical Department

Sprengbagger 1010 (1929)
I Kiss Your Hand Madame (1929)
The March of the Machines (1927)
Additional Crew

Hawaii (1966)
Additional Crew

The Dark Angel (1935)
The Kid from Spain (1932)
Costume and Wardrobe Department

Nana (1934)

Videos

Awards

Did You Know

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 ...

Quotes

[on directing Ethel Waters in The Member of the Wedding (1952)] Every time I'd try to help her, she'd roll her eyes to the heavens and say, "God is my director!" How can you argue with that?