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
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ... (Director)
- A Breath of Scandal ... (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 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
- 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
- The Breaking Point ... (Director)
- Bright Leaf ... (Director)
- Young Man with a Horn ... (Director)
1949
- Flamingo Road ... (Director)
- It's a Great Feeling as Michael Curtiz (uncredited)
- The Lady Takes a Sailor ... (Director)
- My Dream Is Yours ... (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)
- 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
- Santa Fe Trail ... (Director)
- The Sea Hawk ... (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 Daughters ... (Director)
- Four's a Crowd ... (Director)
1937
- Marked Woman ... (Co-Director)
- Kid Galahad ... (Director)
- Black Legion ... (Co-Director)
- The Perfect Specimen ... (Director)
- Stolen Holiday ... (Director)
- Mountain Justice ... (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)
- Bright Lights ... (Producer)
- Little Big Shot ... (Director)
1934
- Mandalay ... (Director)
- Jimmy the Gent ... (Director)
- British Agent ... (Director)
- The Key ... (Director)
1933
- Mystery of the Wax Museum ... (Director)
- The Kennel Murder Case ... (Director)
- Private Detective 62 ... (Director)
- Female ... (Director)
- Goodbye Again ... (Director)
- The Keyhole ... (Director)
1932
- 20,000 Years in Sing Sing ... (Director)
- Doctor X ... (Director)
- The Cabin in the Cotton ... (Director)
- The Woman from Monte Carlo ... (Director)
- Alias the Doctor ... (Director)
- The Strange Love of Molly Louvain ... (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)
- A Soldier's Plaything ... (Director)
- The Matrimonial Bed ... (Director)
- River's End ... (Director)
1929
- The Gamblers ... (Director)
- Glad Rag Doll ... (Director)
- Madonna of Avenue A ... (Director)
- Hearts in Exile ... (Director)
1928
- Noah's Ark ... (Director)
- Tenderloin ... (Director)
1927
- A Million Bid ... (Director)
- Good Time Charley ... (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
- Avalanche ... (Director)
- Young Medardus ... (Director)
- Namenlos ... (Director)
1922
- Sodom and Gomorrah ... (Director)
- Samson und Delila ... (Costume Design)
1921
- Dracula's Death ... (Writer)
- Mrs. Dane's Confession ... (Director)
- Miss Tutti Frutti ... (Director)
- Labyrinth of Horror ... (Director)
- Good and Evil ... (Director)
1920
- The Star of Damascus ... (Director)
- Boccaccio ... (Director)
- The Merry Widow ... (Director)
- The Scourge of God ... (Director)
1919
- My Brother Is Coming ... (Director)
- Lu, the Coquette ... (Director)
- The Lady with the Black Gloves ... (Director)
1918
- Alraune ... (Director)
- 99 ... (Director)
- Lulu ... (Director)
- Jean the Tenant ... (Director)
- The Judas ... (Director)
- The Scorpion ... (Director)
- Spring in Winter ... (Director)
- The Story Of A Kreutzer ... (Director)
- A csúnya fiú ... (Director)
- Magic Waltz ... (Director)
- The Devil ... (Director)
- The Sunflower Woman ... (Director)
1917
- The Wolf ... (Screenplay)
- The Last Dawn ... (Director)
- Secret of St. Job Forest ... (Director)
- The Man Of The Earth ... (Director)
- The Black Rainbow ... (Director)
- The Charlatan ... (Director)
- Master Zoard ... (Director)
- Nobody's Son ... (Director)
- Tartar Invasion ... (Director)
- A magyar föld ereje ... (Writer)
- The Death-Bell ... (Director)
- Peace's Road ... (Director)
- A vörös Sámson ... (Director)
1916
- The Coronation of King Charles IV ... (Director)
- Seven of Spades ... (Director)
- Mr. Doctor ... (Director)
- The Carthusians ... (Director)
- Haza, haza öreg baka ... (Director)
- Melancholy Lady ... (Director)
1915
- The Undesirable ... (Director)
- Bánk bán ... (Director)
- Akit ketten szeretnek ... (Director)
- A paradicsom ... (Director)
- A kölcsönkért csecsemök ... (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