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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1886-12-24 (138 years old)

Place of Birth

Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Michael Curtiz

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.

Known For

Acting

2012

2005

The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Self (archive footage)

1953

1952

1951

The Screen Director as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

1949

It's a Great Feeling as Michael Curtiz (uncredited)

1948

1943

1913

1912

Today and Tomorrow as Arisztid

Directing

1961

The Comancheros as Director
Francis of Assisi as Director

1959

The Man in the Net as Director
The Hangman as Director

1958

King Creole as Director
The Proud Rebel as Director

1957

1955

We're No Angels as Director

1954

The Egyptian as Director
White Christmas as Director

1953

The Jazz Singer as Director

1952

1950

The Breaking Point as Director
Bright Leaf as Director

1949

My Dream Is Yours as Director
Flamingo Road as Director

1948

1947

The Unsuspected as Director
Life with Father as Director

1946

Night and Day as Director

1945

Mildred Pierce as Director
Roughly Speaking as Director

1944

Janie as Director

1943

Casablanca as Director
This Is the Army as Director
Mission to Moscow as Director

1942

1941

The Sea Wolf as Director
Dive Bomber as Director

1940

Santa Fe Trail as Director
The Sea Hawk as Director
Virginia City as Director

1939

Dodge City as Director
Four Wives as Director
Sons of Liberty as Director

1937

Kid Galahad as Director
Mountain Justice as Director
Stolen Holiday as Director
Black Legion as Co-Director

1935

Captain Blood as Director
Black Fury as Director
Little Big Shot as Director
Front Page Woman as Director

1934

Jimmy the Gent as Director
The Key as Director
British Agent as Director
Mandalay as Director

1933

Female as Director
The Keyhole as Director
Goodbye Again as Director

1931

The Mad Genius as Director
Demon of the Sea as Director

1930

Mammy as Director
River's End as Director
Bright Lights as Director
Under a Texas Moon as Director

1929

The Gamblers as Director
Glad Rag Doll as Director
Hearts in Exile as Director

1928

Noah's Ark as Director
Tenderloin as Director

1927

The Desired Woman as Director
Good Time Charley as Director
A Million Bid as Director

1926

Cab No. 13 as Director
The Third Degree as Director

1925

Red Heels as Director

1924

Moon of Israel as Director
Harun al Raschid as Director

1923

Avalanche as Director
Young Medardus as Director

1922

Sodom and Gomorrah as Director

1921

Good and Evil as Director
Miss Tutti Frutti as Director

1919

1918

Alraune as Director
A skorpió as Director
Tavasz a télben as Director

1917

The Wolf as Director
The Last Dawn as Director
A kuruzsló as Director
A vörös Sámson as Director
Tatárjárás as Director
A föld embere as Director

1915

Bánk bán as Director
The Undesirable as Director

1914

Rablélek as Director
Golddigger as Director

1913

The Last Bohemian as Director

1912

Today and Tomorrow as Director

Writing

1922

1921

Dracula's Death as Writer

1917

The Wolf as Screenplay
Tatárjárás as Screenplay

Production

1956

The Scarlet Hour as Producer

1949

My Dream Is Yours as Executive Producer
Flamingo Road as Executive Producer

1947

The Unsuspected as Producer

1935

Bright Lights as Producer

Costume & Make-Up

1922

Samson und Delila as Costume Design