Michael Curtiz

ActorDirectorProducerDirectingWriter Dec 24 (died age 75) Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary] 1912–2012 (100 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

Casablanca

Director

Film

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Director

Film

Mildred Pierce

Director

Film

White Christmas

Director

Film

Angels with Dirty Faces

Director

Film

Captain Blood

Director

Film

We're No Angels

Director

Film

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Director

Filmography

Acting (10)

Movies (8)

Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of

2012

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

2005

as Self (archive footage)

7.8

You're the Star

1953

as Self

The Screen Director

1951

as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)

6.0

It's a Great Feeling

1949

as Michael Curtiz (uncredited)

Show-Business at War

as Self

Atlantis

Today and Tomorrow

as Arisztid

Television (2)

This Is Your Life

as Self

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Crew (183)

Movies (183)

The Comancheros

Director

Francis of Assisi

Director

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Director

A Breath of Scandal

Director

The Hangman

Director

The Man in the Net

Director

King Creole

Director

The Proud Rebel

Director

The Helen Morgan Story

1957

Director

5.0

The Best Things in Life Are Free

Director

The Scarlet Hour

Director

The Scarlet Hour

Producer

The Vagabond King

Director

We're No Angels

Director

The Egyptian

Director

White Christmas

Director

The Boy from Oklahoma

1954

Director

5.2

Trouble Along the Way

Director

The Jazz Singer

Director

The Story of Will Rogers

1952

Director

6.0

Jim Thorpe – All-American

Director

Force of Arms

Director

I'll See You in My Dreams

Director

Bright Leaf

Director

Young Man with a Horn

Director

The Breaking Point

Director

Flamingo Road

Director

Flamingo Road

Executive Producer

My Dream Is Yours

Director

My Dream Is Yours

Executive Producer

The Lady Takes a Sailor

1949

Director

4.3

Romance on the High Seas

Director

The Unsuspected

Director

The Unsuspected

Producer

Life with Father

Director

Night and Day

Director

Mildred Pierce

Director

Roughly Speaking

Director

Passage to Marseille

Director

Janie

Director

Casablanca

Director

This Is the Army

Director

Mission to Moscow

Director

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Director

Captains of the Clouds

Director

The Sea Wolf

Director

Dive Bomber

Director

Santa Fe Trail

Director

The Sea Hawk

Director

Virginia City

Director

Dodge City

Director

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

Director

Daughters Courageous

Director

Four Wives

Director

Sons of Liberty

Director

The Adventures of Robin Hood

1938

Director

7.5

Angels with Dirty Faces

Director

Four Daughters

Director

Four's a Crowd

Director

Gold Is Where You Find It

Director

Stolen Holiday

Director

Marked Woman

Co-Director

Mountain Justice

Director

Black Legion

Co-Director

Kid Galahad

Director

The Perfect Specimen

Director

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Director

The Walking Dead

Director

Front Page Woman

Director

Little Big Shot

Director

Captain Blood

Director

Bright Lights

Producer

Black Fury

Director

The Case of the Curious Bride

Director

British Agent

Director

The Key

Director

Jimmy the Gent

Director

Mandalay

Director

Female

Director

The Kennel Murder Case

1933

Director

6.0

Mystery of the Wax Museum

Director

The Keyhole

Director

Private Detective 62

Director

Goodbye Again

Director

The Woman from Monte Carlo

Director

Doctor X

Director

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

1932

Director

6.3

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

1932

Director

5.9

The Cabin in the Cotton

Director

Alias the Doctor

Director

The Mad Genius

Director

God's Gift to Women

Director

Demon of the Sea

Director

Under a Texas Moon

Director

Mammy

Director

A Soldier's Plaything

Director

The Matrimonial Bed

Director

River's End

Director

Bright Lights

Director

The Gamblers

Director

Glad Rag Doll

1929

Director

Hearts in Exile

1929

Director

Madonna of Avenue A

1929

Director

Noah's Ark

1928

Director

6.2

Tenderloin

1928

Director

The Desired Woman

1927

Director

Good Time Charley

1927

Director

A Million Bid

1927

Director

The Third Degree

1926

Director

The Golden Butterfly

1926

Director

Cab No. 13

Director

Red Heels

Director

Moon of Israel

Director

Harun al Raschid

Director

Young Medardus

1923

Director

4.9

Namenlos

1923

Director

Avalanche

Director

Sodom and Gomorrah

Director

Sodom and Gomorrah

Writer

Samson und Delila

Costume Design

Miss Tutti Frutti

Director

Labyrinth of Horror

1921

Director

4.9

Der Stern von Damaskus

1921

Director

Dracula's Death

1921

Writer

8.0

Good and Evil

1921

Director

Mrs. Dane's Confession

1921

Director

5.0

The Scourge of God

1920

Director

The Scourge of God

1920

Screenplay

A víg özvegy

1920

Director

Boccaccio

1920

Director

Die Dame mit dem schwarzen Handschuh

1919

Director

My Brother Is Coming

1919

Director

4.8

Lu, a kokott

1919

Director

A skorpió

1918

Director

A napraforgós hölgy

1918

Director

Alraune

1918

Director

Az ördög

1918

Director

Júdás

1918

Director

Az árendás zsidó

1918

Director

Az ezredes

1918

Director

Varázskeringö

1918

Director

Lulu

1918

Director

1918

Director

Egy krajcár története

1918

Director

Tavasz a télben

1918

Director

A csúnya fiú

1918

Director

The Death-Bell

1917

Director

A magyar föld ereje

1917

Director

A magyar föld ereje

1917

Writer

The Wolf

1917

Director

The Wolf

1917

Screenplay

A kuruzsló

1917

Director

A föld embere

1917

Director

Tatárjárás

1917

Director

Tatárjárás

1917

Screenplay

Zoárd mester

1917

Director

A senki fia

1917

Director

A vörös Sámson

1917

Director

A béke útja

1917

Director

The Last Dawn

1917

Director

A fekete szivárvány

1917

Director

A szentjóbi erdö titka

1917

Director

Haza, haza öreg baka

1916

Director

A karthausi

1916

Director

Doktor úr

1916

Director

The Coronation of King Charles IV

1916

Director

A bánat asszonya

1916

Director

Makkhetes

1916

Director

A paradicsom

1915

Director

Bánk bán

1915

Director

The Undesirable

1915

Director

4.8

A kölcsönkért csecsemök

1915

Director

Akit ketten szeretnek

1915

Director

Golddigger

1914

Director

Rablélek

1914

Director

A hercegnö pongyolája

1914

Director

The Last Bohemian

1913

Director

1.0

Házasodik az uram

1913

Director

Today and Tomorrow

1912

Director

Az éjszaka rabja

Director

Liliom

Director

General Babka

Director

Ein Spiel ums Leben

Director