Richard D. Zanuck, son, once spurned the legendary Hollywood producer Darryl F. Zanuck, who has built his career as a producer often honor, running over $ 2 million in cash and, for the production of "Walking Miss Daisy" in 1989, becoming the only child of duplicate a best-picture Oscar father, died Friday at home in Beverly Hills, California for 77 years.
The cause was a heart attack, Jeff Sanderson, said his publicist.
Richard Zanuck competed with the achievements of his father, who co-founded 20th Century Fox, has won three Academy Awards for best film and then shot his son in a study of reorganization.
The young Zanuck produced or helped produce such films as Steven Spielberg's first feature film, "The Sugarland Express" in 1974 and first director of the blockbuster, "Jaws," next year.
In a statement, Mr. Spielberg says Zanuck, "taught me everything I know to produce."
David Brown, an urban New Yorker who Zanuck has produced two films of Spielberg also worked with him in the production of "The Sting" in 1973. To meet Paul Newman, Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill after the 1969 blockbuster "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Sting" won the Oscar for Best Picture, although Zanuck and Brown (husband of the editor Helen Gurley Brown's Cosmopolitan magazine) have not been designated as its producers.
Zanuck produced six films directed by Tim Burton, including "Dark Shadows" this year starring Johnny Depp as a vampire broken. He also collaborated on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005), Mr. Burton is a reinvention of "Planet of the Apes" (2001), and "Alice in Wonderland" (2010). "Alice" has grossed more than $ 1 billion worldwide.
When I was younger Zanuck had the race in 20th Century Fox, where his father reigned as one of Hollywood's most powerful tycoons. Richard attended his first Oscar at age 7.
In high school and college, he worked in another department at the Fox summer. In 1962, when Mr. Zanuck was still in his 20 years, his father challenged the allegations of nepotism and production of Fox did. According to Richard, the company has earned 159 Oscar nominations, three films - "The Sound of Music", "Patton" and "The French Connection" - were nominated for best film.
Darryl Zanuck, a cigar-chomping central region that was in high school and waved a wad of Pole to reinforce a point of conversation, the son fired in 1970 after a study of reorganization. The father was trying to save his job, without success. Resentment Richard Zanuck lasted almost until the death of his father in 1979.
"It was different from the usual parent-child relationship," Zanuck told the New York Times in 2003. "But I was able to fix everything before my father died."
Richard - quiet, elegant and educated at Stanford in a California beach - has continued his productive collaboration with Mr. Brown, after a brief stay at Warner Brothers.
Richard Darryl Zanuck, was born in Los Angeles December 13, 1934. His mother was the silent film star Virginia Fox when I was young, Richard was made to sell copies of The Saturday Evening Post, who taught him the value of hard work. "Sure," he told the Los Angeles Times in 2010: "My father had a driver take me to get the papers."
To prove that cared for his son, Darryl Zanuck transported in buses executives of the study, Richard ball games, so they can encourage your child, like extras in a film of sports. The size of Orson Welles were regular visitors to the house Zanuck.
Richard, who excelled in sports in high school and continued running five miles a day in its 70 years, served as a lieutenant in the Army after graduating from Stanford University. His father, meanwhile, was fired by Fox in 1956 and moved to Paris to become an independent producer. The most Zanuck, who had a reputation for womanizing, had romances with three French actresses in succession, but could not advance your career, as he had suggested it might do so.
Son of Darryl Zanuck's ready to produce his first film, a murder mystery "instinct" (1959), at the age of 24 years. He won the award for best actor at Cannes for the joint work of Welles, Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman.
In 1962, Fox, still struggling, Darryl Zanuck summarized as president. As we do not abandon their romantic interest in Paris, he asked his son to give you a list of possible candidates to run the study of the West Coast. Richard Zanuck gave him a piece of paper with one word on it, "I".
His father was for him. "I have always believed that one of the most daring moves," Zanuck said the decision of his father. The boy's father keep up transatlantic telegram.
Zanuck moved to Warner Brothers to become executive vice president and has worked with Mr. Brown in blockbusters like "The Exorcist" and "South and half of fire." In 1971, the two men formed the company Zanuck / Brown.
After their separation in 1988, the Company began Zanuck Zanuck. This year was "Walking Miss Daisy," which was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won four, including best film. It 'will cost $ 5 million to make and grossed over $ 100 million.
Zanuck first two marriages ended in divorce. Leaves his wife, Lili Fini Zanuck, which produced the 2000 Oscar ceremony, her children and Dean Harrison, who produced the film, and nine grandchildren.
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