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 Man in the Net ... (Director)
The Hangman ... (Director)

1958

King Creole ... (Director)
The Proud Rebel ... (Director)

1957

The Helen Morgan Story ... (Director)

1956

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

1955

We're No Angels ... (Director)

1954

The Egyptian ... (Director)
White Christmas ... (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

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

1950

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

1949

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

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

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

1943

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

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

Dodge City ... (Director)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ... (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's a Crowd ... (Director)
Four Daughters ... (Director)

1937

Marked Woman ... (Co-Director)
Kid Galahad ... (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)
The Case of the Curious Bride ... (Director)
Front Page Woman ... (Director)
Black Fury ... (Director)
Little Big Shot ... (Director)
Bright Lights ... (Producer)

1934

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

1933

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

1932

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

1931

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

1930

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

1929

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

1928

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

1927

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

1926

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

1925

Red Heels ... (Director)

1924

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

1923

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

1922

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

1921

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

1920

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

1919

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

1918

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

1917

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

1916

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

1915

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