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 Vagabond King ... (Director)
The Scarlet Hour ... (Producer)
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

The Jazz Singer ... (Director)
Trouble Along the Way ... (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)
I'll See You in My Dreams ... (Director)
The Screen Director as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

1950

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

1949

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

1948

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

1947

The Unsuspected ... (Producer)
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)
Mission to Moscow ... (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

Dodge City ... (Director)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ... (Director)
Four Wives ... (Director)
Sons of Liberty ... (Director)
Daughters Courageous ... (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)
Front Page Woman ... (Director)
Black Fury ... (Director)
Bright Lights ... (Producer)
The Case of the Curious Bride ... (Director)
Little Big Shot ... (Director)

1934

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

1933

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

1932

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

1931

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

1930

Mammy ... (Director)
Bright Lights ... (Director)
Under a Texas Moon ... (Director)
River's End ... (Director)
The Matrimonial Bed ... (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 Third Degree ... (Director)
Cab No. 13 ... (Director)
The Golden Butterfly ... (Director)

1925

Red Heels ... (Director)

1924

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

1923

Avalanche ... (Director)
Namenlos ... (Director)
Young Medardus ... (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)
Boccaccio ... (Director)
The Star of Damascus ... (Director)
The Merry Widow ... (Director)

1919

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

1918

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

1917

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

1916

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

1915

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

1914

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

1913

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

1912

Today and Tomorrow as Arisztid