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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Tiger, with 
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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 1880
1961
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Darryl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Darryl sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Darryl F. Zanuck at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes 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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Water Tiger
Water TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Darryl F. Zanuck was born on September 5, 1902, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Darryl F. Zanuck's birth date, September 5, 1902, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Darryl’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Darryl F. Zanuck's date-only chart is Mercury square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Darryl F. Zanuck combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Darryl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Darryl F. Zanuck, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Darryl’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineUranus2.8° to 4.0° orb
Darryl’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareUranus4.6° to 5.6° orb
Darryl’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 8°56′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Darryl is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresCancer 28°10′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Darryl is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosCancer 16°17′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Darryl is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 4°37′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Darryl needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 23°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Darryl leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea trine Mercury 2.1°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.6°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Darryl’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Darryl is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Darryl’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Yod 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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.7°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 0.8°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Darryl F. Zanuck, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Also born on September 5
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Darryl’s cards
Every card is computed from September 5, 1902, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Darryl F. Zanuck, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Darryl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q364342, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Darryl F. Zanuck at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Tiger.
- 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 time was Darryl F. Zanuck born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Darryl F. Zanuck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the September 5, 1902 birth date.
- What was Darryl F. Zanuck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 5, 1902 birth date.
- 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.
