---
name: "Frederick M. Zollo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/frederick-zollo"
fi1m_id: "frederick-zollo"
imdb_id: "nm0957712"
tmdb_id: 71263
wikidata_id: "Q5498335"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "24 February 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-03T03:04:11.480684+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."
---

# Frederick M. Zollo

## Identity

Frederick M. Zollo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/frederick-zollo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** frederick-zollo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0957712
- **TMDB ID:** 71263
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5498335
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Zollo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5498335, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0957712/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71263

Producer. Born 24 February 1953 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 24 February 1953, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Active:** 1988–present
- **Also known as:** Frederick Zollo, Fred Zollo
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 2 producing
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 72 (1), 1990s 84 (1), 2020s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Zollo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5498335, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0957712/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71263

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Mississippi Burning*](https://film.one/film/mississippi-burning.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Frederick Zollo is an American producer of film and theatre. Born on 24 February 1953 in Woburn, Massachusetts, he began his career in theatre before moving into feature films in the late 1980s.

He produced *Mississippi Burning* (1988), which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. His other film credits include *Miles from Home* (1988), *The Paper* (1994), *Quiz Show* (1994, as executive producer), *Ghosts of Mississippi* (1996), and *Till* (2022). Zollo has also produced numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including Pulitzer Prize winners such as *'night, Mother* (1983) and *Glengarry Glen Ross* (1984), and has received multiple Tony Award nominations.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *Mississippi Burning* (1988), Fi1m 72, as Reporter — [page](https://film.one/film/mississippi-burning.md)

### Produced (2) — the average rests on these

- *Till* (2022), Fi1m 80, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/till.md)
- *Quiz Show* (1994), Fi1m 84, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/quiz-show.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Till* (2022), Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/till.md)
- *Greetings from Tim Buckley* (2013), Producer
- *Little Fugitive* (2006), Producer
- *Hurlyburly* (1998), Executive Producer
- *In the Gloaming* (1997), Executive Producer
- *Ghosts of Mississippi* (1996), Producer
- *Quiz Show* (1994), Executive Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/quiz-show.md)
- *The Paper* (1994), Producer
- *Restaurant Dogs* (1994), Executive Producer
- *Naked in New York* (1993), Producer
- *The Music of Chance* (1993), Producer
- *Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll* (1991), Producer
- *Mississippi Burning* (1988), as Reporter · Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/mississippi-burning.md)
- *Miles from Home* (1988), Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1989: Best Picture (nominated), for *Mississippi Burning*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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