Michael Curtiz

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1886-12-24

Deathday 1962-04-10 (75 years old)

Place of Birth Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Also Known As Manó Kertész Kaminer, Miska, Michael Courtice, Michael Kertesz, Mihaly Kertesz, Michael Kertész, Mihály Kertész, Kertész Mihály, Manó Kaminer, 마이클 커티즈

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

Director

1961
The Comancheros

as Director

1961
Francis of Assisi

as Director

1960
1959
The Man in the Net

as Director

1959
The Hangman

as Director

1958
King Creole

as Director

1958
The Proud Rebel

as Director

1957
1956
The Scarlet Hour

as Director

1956
The Vagabond King

as Director

1955
We're No Angels

as Director

1954
The Egyptian

as Director

1954
White Christmas

as Director

1954
1953
1953
The Jazz Singer

as Director

1952
1951
Force of Arms

as Director

1950
1950
The Breaking Point

as Director

1950
Bright Leaf

as Director

1949
My Dream Is Yours

as Director

1949
Flamingo Road

as Director

1949
1948
1947
The Unsuspected

as Director

1947
Life with Father

as Director

1946
Night and Day

as Director

1945
Mildred Pierce

as Director

1945
Roughly Speaking

as Director

1944
1944
Janie

as Director

1943
Casablanca

as Director

1943
This Is the Army

as Director

1943
Mission to Moscow

as Director

1942
1942
1941
The Sea Wolf

as Director

1941
Dive Bomber

as Director

1940
Santa Fe Trail

as Director

1940
The Sea Hawk

as Director

1940
Virginia City

as Director

1939
Dodge City

as Director

1939
Four Wives

as Director

1939
Sons of Liberty

as Director

1939
1938
1938
Four's a Crowd

as Director

1938
Four Daughters

as Director

1937
Kid Galahad

as Director

1937
1937
Mountain Justice

as Director

1937
Stolen Holiday

as Director

1937
Black Legion

as Co-Director

1936
The Walking Dead

as Director

1935
Captain Blood

as Director

1935
Black Fury

as Director

1935
Little Big Shot

as Director

1935
Front Page Woman

as Director

1934
Jimmy the Gent

as Director

1934
The Key

as Director

1934
British Agent

as Director

1934
Mandalay

as Director

1933
1933
Female

as Director

1933
1933
The Keyhole

as Director

1933
Goodbye Again

as Director

1932
Doctor X

as Director

1932
1932
Alias the Doctor

as Director

1931
1931
The Mad Genius

as Director

1931
Demon of the Sea

as Director

1930
Mammy

as Director

1930
1930
River's End

as Director

1930
Bright Lights

as Director

1930
1930
Under a Texas Moon

as Director

1929
The Gamblers

as Director

1929
Glad Rag Doll

as Director

1929
1929
Hearts in Exile

as Director

1928
Noah's Ark

as Director

1928
Tenderloin

as Director

1927
The Desired Woman

as Director

1927
Good Time Charley

as Director

1927
A Million Bid

as Director

1926
Cab No. 13

as Director

1926
1926
The Third Degree

as Director

1925
Red Heels

as Director

1924
Moon of Israel

as Director

1924
Harun al Raschid

as Director

1923
Avalanche

as Director

1923
Young Medardus

as Director

1922
Sodom and Gomorrah

as Director

1921
1921
Good and Evil

as Director

1921
Mrs. Tutti Frutti

as Director

1921
1919
1918
Alraune

as Director

1918
1918
A skorpió

as Director

1918
Tavasz a télben

as Director

1917
1917
The Wolf

as Director

1917
The Last Dawn

as Director

1917
1917
A kuruzsló

as Director

1917
A vörös Sámson

as Director

1917
Tatárjárás

as Director

1917
A föld embere

as Director

1915
Bánk bán

as Director

1915
The Undesirable

as Director

1914
Rablélek

as Director

1914
Golddigger

as Director

1913
The Last Bohemian

as Director

1912
Today and Tomorrow

as Director

Actor

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)

1912
Today and Tomorrow

as Arisztid

Writer

1922
1921
Dracula's Death

as Writer

1917
1917
The Wolf

as Screenplay

1917
Tatárjárás

as Screenplay

Producer

1956
The Scarlet Hour

as Producer

1949
My Dream Is Yours

as Executive Producer

1949
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