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It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.

Richard D. Zanuck

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Richard D. Zanuck
Age: 77 †
Born: 1934
Born: December 13
Died: 2012
Died: July 13
Film Producer
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LA
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Richard Darryl Zanuck
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