Darryl F. Zanuck
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U.S. Army
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American producer, writer, actor, director and studio executive
who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its
longest survivors. He found work producing movie plots, selling
his first story in 1922 to William Russell and his second to Irving
Thalberg. He then worked for Mack Sennett and took that experience
to Warner Bros. where he wrote stories for
Rin Tin Tin and under a number of pseudonyms wrote over forty
scripts from 1924–1929, including
Old San Francisco (1927). He moved into management in 1929 and
became head of production in 1931. In 1933 he left Warners to found 20th
Century Films with Joseph Schenck and William Goetz, releasing their
material through United Artists. In 1935 they bought out Fox
studios to become
20th Century Fox. Zanuck was vice-president of this new studio
and took an interventionist approach, closely involved in editing and
producing. In the 1950s, he withdrew from the studio to
concentrate on independent producing in Europe. He returned to
control of Fox in 1962, replacing Spyros Skouras, in a confrontation
over the release of Zanuck's production of
The Longest Day as the studio struggled to finish the difficult
production of
Cleopatra.
Served in WW1. In 1918, despite being sixteen, he deceived a
recruiter and joined the service and served in France with the Nebraska
National Guard. |
Chuck Zink
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U.S. Marine Corps
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American television personality and film actor, best known for
playing the character Skipper Chuck who hosted the popular South
Florida children's television series called Popeye Playhouse
(1957 to 1979). Zink worked with Jerry Lewis as the local
representative for the Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day
Telethons for 24 years. He also was the television host of the
local Orange Bowl New Year's Parade for 22 years, and the announcer for
the
Jackie Gleason Show for 12 years. work on television and
for children, Zink received two Emmy Awards.
Served in WW2 and was awarded the Bronze Star for combat in the Pacific
Theater. |
Howard Zinn
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U.S. Army Air Forces
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American historian, author, political activist, playwright,
intellectual and Professor of Political Science at Boston University
from 1964 to 1988. He wrote more than 20 books, which included his
best-selling and influential
A People's History of the United States. Zinn wrote extensively
about the civil rights, civil liberties and anti-war movements. His
memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, was also the title of a
2004 documentary about Zinn's life and work.
Served in WW2 where he was assigned as a
bombardier in the 490th Bombardment Group, bombing targets in
Berlin, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. The anti-war stance Zinn developed
later was informed, in part, by his experiences. In April 1945, he
participated in an early military use of napalm, which took place in
Royan, western France. |
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