Michael Curtiz
Born: 1886-12-24 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Died: 1962-04-10
Known For: Directing
Biography
Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 — April 10, 1962), born Manó Kaminer, was a Hungarian-American film director. He had early credits as Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész. He directed more than fifty films in Europe and more than one hundred in the United States. The best-known were The Adventures of Robin Hood, Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, and White Christmas. He thrived in the heyday of the Warner Bros. studio in the 1930s and '40s. Curtiz was less successful from the late 1940s onwards, when he attempted to move from studio direction into production and freelance work, but he continued working until shortly before his death.
Filmography
2012
- Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of as Self (archive footage)
2005
- The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Self (archive footage)
1961
- The Comancheros ... (Director)
- Francis of Assisi ... (Director)
1960
- A Breath of Scandal ... (Director)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ... (Director)
1959
- The Hangman ... (Director)
- The Man in the Net ... (Director)
1958
- King Creole ... (Director)
- The Proud Rebel ... (Director)
1957
- The Helen Morgan Story ... (Director)
1956
- The Scarlet Hour ... (Director)
- The Best Things in Life Are Free ... (Director)
- The Vagabond King ... (Director)
1955
- We're No Angels ... (Director)
1954
- White Christmas ... (Director)
- The Boy from Oklahoma ... (Director)
- The Egyptian ... (Director)
1953
- Trouble Along the Way ... (Director)
- The Jazz Singer ... (Director)
- You're the Star as Self
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
- The Story of Will Rogers ... (Director)
1951
- Jim Thorpe – All-American ... (Director)
- Force of Arms ... (Director)
- The Screen Director as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
- I'll See You in My Dreams ... (Director)
1950
- Bright Leaf ... (Director)
- The Breaking Point ... (Director)
- Young Man with a Horn ... (Director)
1949
- Flamingo Road ... (Director)
- My Dream Is Yours ... (Director)
- The Lady Takes a Sailor ... (Director)
- It's a Great Feeling as Michael Curtiz (uncredited)
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Romance on the High Seas ... (Director)
1947
- The Unsuspected ... (Director)
- Life with Father ... (Director)
1946
- Night and Day ... (Director)
1945
- Mildred Pierce ... (Director)
- Roughly Speaking ... (Director)
1944
- Janie ... (Director)
- Passage to Marseille ... (Director)
1943
- Casablanca ... (Director)
- This Is the Army ... (Director)
- Mission to Moscow ... (Director)
- Show-Business at War as Self
1942
- Yankee Doodle Dandy ... (Director)
- Captains of the Clouds ... (Director)
1941
- Dive Bomber ... (Director)
- The Sea Wolf ... (Director)
1940
- Virginia City ... (Director)
- The Sea Hawk ... (Director)
- Santa Fe Trail ... (Director)
1939
- Dodge City ... (Director)
- Daughters Courageous ... (Director)
- Four Wives ... (Director)
- Sons of Liberty ... (Director)
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ... (Director)
1938
- Four Daughters ... (Director)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood ... (Director)
- Gold Is Where You Find It ... (Director)
- Angels with Dirty Faces ... (Director)
- Four's a Crowd ... (Director)
1937
- Marked Woman ... (Co-Director)
- Stolen Holiday ... (Director)
- Mountain Justice ... (Director)
- Kid Galahad ... (Director)
- The Perfect Specimen ... (Director)
- Black Legion ... (Co-Director)
1936
- The Charge of the Light Brigade ... (Director)
- The Walking Dead ... (Director)
1935
- Captain Blood ... (Director)
- Bright Lights ... (Producer)
- Black Fury ... (Director)
- The Case of the Curious Bride ... (Director)
- Little Big Shot ... (Director)
- Front Page Woman ... (Director)
1934
- British Agent ... (Director)
- The Key ... (Director)
- Mandalay ... (Director)
- Jimmy the Gent ... (Director)
1933
- Goodbye Again ... (Director)
- Female ... (Director)
- Mystery of the Wax Museum ... (Director)
- The Kennel Murder Case ... (Director)
- The Keyhole ... (Director)
- Private Detective 62 ... (Director)
1932
- The Strange Love of Molly Louvain ... (Director)
- Doctor X ... (Director)
- The Woman from Monte Carlo ... (Director)
- The Cabin in the Cotton ... (Director)
- Alias the Doctor ... (Director)
- 20,000 Years in Sing Sing ... (Director)
1931
- The Mad Genius ... (Director)
- Demon of the Sea ... (Director)
- God's Gift to Women ... (Director)
1930
- Mammy ... (Director)
- Under a Texas Moon ... (Director)
- A Soldier's Plaything ... (Director)
- The Matrimonial Bed ... (Director)
- River's End ... (Director)
- Bright Lights ... (Director)
1929
- The Gamblers ... (Director)
- Glad Rag Doll ... (Director)
- Hearts in Exile ... (Director)
- Madonna of Avenue A ... (Director)
1928
- Tenderloin ... (Director)
- Noah's Ark ... (Director)
1927
- The Desired Woman ... (Director)
- Good Time Charley ... (Director)
- A Million Bid ... (Director)
1926
- The Golden Butterfly ... (Director)
- The Third Degree ... (Director)
- Cab No. 13 ... (Director)
1925
- Red Heels ... (Director)
1924
- Harun al Raschid ... (Director)
- Moon of Israel ... (Director)
1923
- Avalanche ... (Director)
- Young Medardus ... (Director)
- Namenlos ... (Director)
1922
- Samson und Delila ... (Costume Design)
- Sodom and Gomorrah ... (Director)
1921
- Dracula's Death ... (Writer)
- Mrs. Dane's Confession ... (Director)
- Labyrinth of Horror ... (Director)
- Der Stern von Damaskus ... (Director)
- Miss Tutti Frutti ... (Director)
- Good and Evil ... (Director)
1920
- Boccaccio ... (Director)
- Die Gottesgeisel ... (Director)
- A víg özvegy ... (Director)
1919
- My Brother Is Coming ... (Director)
- Lu, a kokott ... (Director)
- Die Dame mit dem schwarzen Handschuh ... (Director)
1918
- Az ezredes ... (Director)
- Varázskeringö ... (Director)
- Alraune ... (Director)
- Az ördög ... (Director)
- A skorpió ... (Director)
- Júdás ... (Director)
- Lulu ... (Director)
- 99 ... (Director)
- Az árendás zsidó ... (Director)
- A csúnya fiú ... (Director)
- A napraforgós hölgy ... (Director)
- Egy krajcár története ... (Director)
- Tavasz a télben ... (Director)
1917
- The Wolf ... (Screenplay)
- A kuruzsló ... (Director)
- Zoárd mester ... (Director)
- The Last Dawn ... (Director)
- A vörös Sámson ... (Director)
- A senki fia ... (Director)
- A föld embere ... (Director)
- Tatárjárás ... (Screenplay)
- A béke útja ... (Director)
- The Death-Bell ... (Director)
- A fekete szivárvány ... (Director)
- A magyar föld ereje ... (Writer)
- A szentjóbi erdö titka ... (Director)
1916
- A karthausi ... (Director)
- Doktor úr ... (Director)
- A bánat asszonya ... (Director)
- Haza, haza öreg baka ... (Director)
- The Coronation of King Charles IV ... (Director)
- Makkhetes ... (Director)
1915
- Bánk bán ... (Director)
- The Undesirable ... (Director)
- A paradicsom ... (Director)
- Akit ketten szeretnek ... (Director)
- A kölcsönkért csecsemök ... (Director)
1914
- Rablélek ... (Director)
- A hercegnö pongyolája ... (Director)
- Golddigger ... (Director)
1913
- Atlantis
- The Last Bohemian ... (Director)
- Házasodik az uram ... (Director)
1912
- Today and Tomorrow as Arisztid