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Darryl F. Zanuck

Darryl F. Zanuck (born September 5, 1902, Wahoo, United States; died 1979), was an American film producer. Zanuck's honours include Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award and David di Donatello for Best International Film.

Darryl F. Zanuck’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Darryl F. Zanuck’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Storyteller

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Darryl in the U.S.?

#2115

US rank in 2025

~93,419

Americans share it since 1913

1961

its peak year

Darryl is in US records from 1913, but 1902 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 1961.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Darryl’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

5

Soul Urge · freedom

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on D (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Darryl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus

Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1902, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Darryl apart

Darryl F. Zanuck took the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1945, at 43.

The working life starts in 1922, at 20.

Cause of death is recorded as cancer; the grave is at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

On the family side, Darryl F. Zanuck was married Virginia Fox and raised one child.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Darryl F. Zanuck: Military personnel from California, Film producers from Nebraska and Nebraska National Guard personnel.

Freddie Mercury (1946) and Bukayo Saka (2001) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1954), David di Donatello for Best International Film (1963) and Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1945)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Story and Academy Award for Best Picture
Working from
1922
Cause of death
cancer
Buried at
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
46

What the chart says

Darryl, according to the stars

Core essence

Darryl notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Darryl is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Darryl wants to be loved

Darryl wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Darryl openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Darryl creates

How Darryl makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Darryl creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Darryl is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Darryl is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Darryl fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Darryl's birth date. Working below.

Where Darryl sits

Six lines

Darryl’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Darryl

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Darryl

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Darryl

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Darryl

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Darryl

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Darryl

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Darryl F. Zanuck

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wahoo on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Wahoo that night

Computed for 41.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Wahoo at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 4.2° of the exact zenith.

Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 41.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 16% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 22° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Wahoo, United States

The death is recorded at Palm Springs, Riverside County in 1979.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Darryl F. Zanuck: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Darryl's chart is

Chart pattern score

42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Yod onto Saturn · 1 planet at a critical degree

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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Darryl F. Zanuck at a glance

Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Darryl F. Zanuck's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 5, 1902, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Water Tiger

Leaps first, apologises never.

Darryl F. Zanuck was born on September 5, 1902, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

Darryl F. Zanuck's birth date, September 5, 1902, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Darryl’s chart

Darryl’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.9° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.8° orbUranus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 2.4° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.4° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 4.1° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 4.9° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 5.1° orbSun in Virgo · 12°13′☉12°Moon in Libra · 25°35′☽25°Mercury in Libra · 2°30′☿2°Venus in Leo · 20°43′♀20°Mars in Leo · 0°43′♂0°Jupiter in Aquarius · 8°44′ · retrograde♃℞8°Saturn in Capricorn · 21°32′ · retrograde♄℞21°Uranus in Sagittarius · 17°19′♅17°Neptune in Cancer · 3°26′♆3°Pluto in Gemini · 19°40′♇19°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune0.2° to 1.7° orb

    Darryl’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableVenussextilePluto0.4° to 1.7° orb

    Darryl’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysextileMars1.3° to 2.2° orb

    Darryl’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto2.3° to 2.4° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.8° to 4.0° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus4.6° to 5.6° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 1.6° to 14.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 1.9° to 14.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Darryl’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 8°56′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 28°10′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCancer 16°17′ (moves 0.90° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 4°37′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 23°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Mercury 2.1°
  • Ceres conjunction Mars 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.6°

Darryl’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Darryl’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Saturn · Venus, Pluto, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.7°
  • Venus quincunx Saturn 0.8°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
  • Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.9°

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Darryl’s cards

Computed from September 5, 1902. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Storyteller

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Darryl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q364342 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Darryl F. Zanuck.

Quick answers about Darryl F. Zanuck’s chart

What zodiac sign was Darryl F. Zanuck?
Darryl F. Zanuck was a Virgo: born September 5, 1902, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What was Darryl F. Zanuck's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 5, 1902 birth.
What was Darryl F. Zanuck's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Darryl F. Zanuck's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Darryl F. Zanuck's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Darryl F. Zanuck's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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