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

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 ... (Producer)
The Vagabond King ... (Director)
The Best Things in Life Are Free ... (Director)

1955

We're No Angels ... (Director)

1954

White Christmas ... (Director)
The Egyptian ... (Director)
The Boy from Oklahoma ... (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

Force of Arms ... (Director)
Jim Thorpe – All-American ... (Director)
The Screen Director as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
I'll See You in My Dreams ... (Director)

1950

Young Man with a Horn ... (Director)
The Breaking Point ... (Director)
Bright Leaf ... (Director)

1949

Flamingo Road ... (Director)
It's a Great Feeling as Michael Curtiz (uncredited)
My Dream Is Yours ... (Director)
The Lady Takes a Sailor ... (Director)

1948

The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
Romance on the High Seas ... (Director)

1947

Life with Father ... (Director)
The Unsuspected ... (Producer)

1946

Night and Day ... (Director)

1945

Mildred Pierce ... (Director)
Roughly Speaking ... (Director)

1944

Passage to Marseille ... (Director)
Janie ... (Director)

1943

Casablanca ... (Director)
Mission to Moscow ... (Director)
This Is the Army ... (Director)
Show-Business at War as Self

1942

Yankee Doodle Dandy ... (Director)
Captains of the Clouds ... (Director)

1941

The Sea Wolf ... (Director)
Dive Bomber ... (Director)

1940

The Sea Hawk ... (Director)
Santa Fe Trail ... (Director)
Virginia City ... (Director)

1939

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ... (Director)
Dodge City ... (Director)
Four Wives ... (Director)
Daughters Courageous ... (Director)
Sons of Liberty ... (Director)

1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood ... (Director)
Angels with Dirty Faces ... (Director)
Gold Is Where You Find It ... (Director)
Four Daughters ... (Director)
Four's a Crowd ... (Director)

1937

Kid Galahad ... (Director)
Marked Woman ... (Co-Director)
Black Legion ... (Co-Director)
Mountain Justice ... (Director)
Stolen Holiday ... (Director)
The Perfect Specimen ... (Director)

1936

The Walking Dead ... (Director)
The Charge of the Light Brigade ... (Director)

1935

Captain Blood ... (Director)
Front Page Woman ... (Director)
Little Big Shot ... (Director)
Bright Lights ... (Producer)
Black Fury ... (Director)
The Case of the Curious Bride ... (Director)

1934

British Agent ... (Director)
Jimmy the Gent ... (Director)
Mandalay ... (Director)
The Key ... (Director)

1933

Mystery of the Wax Museum ... (Director)
Private Detective 62 ... (Director)
Female ... (Director)
The Kennel Murder Case ... (Director)
The Keyhole ... (Director)
Goodbye Again ... (Director)

1932

Doctor X ... (Director)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing ... (Director)
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain ... (Director)
The Cabin in the Cotton ... (Director)
The Woman from Monte Carlo ... (Director)
Alias the Doctor ... (Director)

1931

The Mad Genius ... (Director)
God's Gift to Women ... (Director)
Demon of the Sea ... (Director)

1930

Mammy ... (Director)
Bright Lights ... (Director)
River's End ... (Director)
The Matrimonial Bed ... (Director)
Under a Texas Moon ... (Director)
A Soldier's Plaything ... (Director)

1929

The Gamblers ... (Director)
Glad Rag Doll ... (Director)
Hearts in Exile ... (Director)
Madonna of Avenue A ... (Director)

1928

Noah's Ark ... (Director)
Tenderloin ... (Director)

1927

Good Time Charley ... (Director)
A Million Bid ... (Director)
The Desired Woman ... (Director)

1926

The Golden Butterfly ... (Director)
The Third Degree ... (Director)
Cab No. 13 ... (Director)

1925

Red Heels ... (Director)

1924

Moon of Israel ... (Director)
Harun al Raschid ... (Director)

1923

Young Medardus ... (Director)
Avalanche ... (Director)
Namenlos ... (Director)

1922

Sodom and Gomorrah ... (Director)
Samson und Delila ... (Costume Design)

1921

Dracula's Death ... (Writer)
Good and Evil ... (Director)
Labyrinth of Horror ... (Director)
Mrs. Dane's Confession ... (Director)
Miss Tutti Frutti ... (Director)

1920

The Scourge of God ... (Director)
Boccaccio ... (Director)
The Star of Damascus ... (Director)
The Merry Widow ... (Director)

1919

My Brother Is Coming ... (Director)
Lu, the Coquette ... (Director)
The Lady with the Black Gloves ... (Director)

1918

The Scorpion ... (Director)
The Devil ... (Director)
The Judas ... (Director)
Lulu ... (Director)
Magic Waltz ... (Director)
99 ... (Director)
Jean the Tenant ... (Director)
Alraune ... (Director)
The Story Of A Kreutzer ... (Director)
The Sunflower Woman ... (Director)
Spring in Winter ... (Director)
A csúnya fiú ... (Director)

1917

Master Zoard ... (Director)
The Last Dawn ... (Director)
Tartar Invasion ... (Screenplay)
Nobody's Son ... (Director)
The Black Rainbow ... (Director)
The Man Of The Earth ... (Director)
A magyar föld ereje ... (Director)
Peace's Road ... (Director)
A vörös Sámson ... (Director)
The Wolf ... (Director)
The Charlatan ... (Director)
Secret of St. Job Forest ... (Director)
The Death-Bell ... (Director)

1916

Mr. Doctor ... (Director)
The Carthusians ... (Director)
Melancholy Lady ... (Director)
Seven of Spades ... (Director)
The Coronation of King Charles IV ... (Director)
Haza, haza öreg baka ... (Director)

1915

The Undesirable ... (Director)
A paradicsom ... (Director)
Akit ketten szeretnek ... (Director)
A kölcsönkért csecsemök ... (Director)
Bánk bán ... (Director)

1914

Golddigger ... (Director)
Rablélek ... (Director)
A hercegnö pongyolája ... (Director)

1913

Atlantis
The Last Bohemian ... (Director)
Házasodik az uram ... (Director)

1912

Today and Tomorrow as Arisztid