---
name: "Dean Zanuck"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dean-zanuck"
fi1m_id: "dean-zanuck"
imdb_id: "nm0953124"
tmdb_id: 1191105
wikidata_id: "Q13849724"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "11 August 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T22:47:29.048870+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dean Zanuck

## Identity

Dean Zanuck

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dean-zanuck
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dean-zanuck
- **IMDb ID:** nm0953124
- **TMDB ID:** 1191105
- **Wikidata ID:** Q13849724
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Zanuck, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13849724, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0953124/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1191105

Producer. Born 11 August 1972 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 11 August 1972, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Active:** 2002–2003
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Zanuck, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13849724, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0953124/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1191105

## Biography

Dean Zanuck is an American film producer and production executive. Born on 11 August 1972 in Los Angeles, California, he is the son of producer Richard D. Zanuck and the grandson of Darryl F. Zanuck, co-founder of 20th Century Fox.

He began working in the industry in the mid-1990s as a production assistant and later served as a development executive at The Zanuck Company. Zanuck was a producer on *Road to Perdition* (2002), directed by Sam Mendes, and a co-producer on *Reign of Fire* (2002). He also worked as a production executive on films including *Big Fish* (2003), *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory* (2005) and *Alice in Wonderland* (2010).

In 2004 he founded Zanuck Independent, through which he produced *Get Low* (2010), *The Zero Theorem* (2013) and *Voice from the Stone* (2017).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Big Fish* (2003), Fi1m 78, Production Executive — [page](https://film.one/film/big-fish.md)
- *Road to Perdition* (2002), Fi1m 77, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/road-to-perdition.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Voice from the Stone* (2017), Producer
- *The Zero Theorem* (2013), Producer
- *Tontine Massacre* (2010), Producer
- *Get Low* (2010), Producer
- *Big Fish* (2003), Production Executive — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/big-fish.md)
- *Road to Perdition* (2002), Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/road-to-perdition.md)
- *Reign of Fire* (2002), Co-Producer
- *The Man Who Saved Paris*, Director, Producer
- *The Northern Crown*, Producer

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