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.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Darryl
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.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ 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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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. ☿ 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
Configurations in Darryl’s chart
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, 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°
More people like Darryl
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Born in United States
- Hanson W. BaldwinAmerican journalist
- Ernest LawrenceAmerican nuclear physicist
- Marquis ChildsAmerican writer and journalist
- George RaftAmerican actor
- Vincente MinnelliAmerican stage and film director
- Walt Disney
More charts like Darryl’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Max GeorgeBritish singer
- Garrett HedlundAmerican actor
- Scott HoyingAmerican singer
Born in Tiger years
- E. G. MarshallAmerican actor
- Ed HarrisAmerican actor and director (born 1950)
- Thomas KretschmannGerman actor (born 1962)
Also born on September 5
- Freddie Mercury1946
- Bukayo Saka2001
- Leonardo Araújo1969
- George Lazenby1939
- Chris Hipkins1978
- Rose McGowan1973
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Angus YoungAustralian guitarist
- Peter SingerAustralian moral philosopher
- Sam AltmanAmerican venture capitalist
Other Virgo Tiger charts
- Ryan PhillippeAmerican actor
- Jimmy FallonAmerican talk show host and comedian
- Lea MicheleAmerican actress and singer
- Armie HammerAmerican actor
Other Gilded Storytellers
- George Bernard ShawIrish playwright, critic, and polemicist
- Yasunari KawabataJapanese novelist
- Morrie RyskindAmerican activist and entertainer
- Daniel J. BoorstinAmerican historian
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Stephanie WelshAmerican photographer and midwife
- William O. DappingAmerican journalist
- Ira B. Harkey Jr.American journalist
From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Darryl’s cards
Computed from September 5, 1902. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese 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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The same Darryl F. Zanuck at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
