Name: Fred Zinnemann
Date of Birth: Awarded first annual John Huston Award for Artists Rights [1994] Father of film director-producer Tim Zinnemann. Former father-in-law of Meg Tilly. He is widely credited with an incident known as "you first". The story goes that when Oscar winner Zinnemann sat down in a office for a meeting with a young executive, the executive asked him to list what he had done in his career. Zinnemann humiliated the executive by reportedly answering, "Sure. You first.". Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890- 1945". Pages 1238-1247. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987. ... He directed the film debuts of Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando and Meryl Streep. 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). Is portrayed by Bruce Gray in Sinatra (1992) (TV) and by Walker Edmiston in Grace Kelly (1983) (TV) Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961 Is portrayed by 'Peter James Haworth' in Hollywoodland (2006). His father was an Austrian Jewish doctor. Became a naturalized US citizen in 1936. After abandoning his law studies at the University of Vienna, he was trained to be a cinematographer at the ?cole Technique de Photographie in Paris (1927). He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture. Read more Fred Zinnemann movies (director)
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