Michael Curtiz
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday24 December 1886
Died10 April 1962 (age 75)
Place of birthBudapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Known credits184
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 freelan…
Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
2028 · Self (archive footage)
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
2012 · Self (archive footage)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005 · Self (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Self (archive footage)
The Comancheros
1961 · Director
Francis of Assisi
1961 · Director
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1960 · Director
A Breath of Scandal
1960 · Director
The Hangman
1959 · Director
The Man in the Net
1959 · Director
King Creole
1958 · Director
The Proud Rebel
1958 · Director
The Helen Morgan Story
1957 · Director
The Best Things in Life Are Free
1956 · Director
The Vagabond King
1956 · Director
The Scarlet Hour
1956 · Director
The Scarlet Hour
1956 · Producer
We're No Angels
1955 · Director
White Christmas
1954 · Director
The Egyptian
1954 · Director
The Boy from Oklahoma
1954 · Director
Trouble Along the Way
1953 · Director
The Jazz Singer
1953 · Director
You're the Star
1953 · Self
This Is Your Life
1952 · Self
The Story of Will Rogers
1952 · Director
I'll See You in My Dreams
1951 · Director
Jim Thorpe – All-American
1951 · Director
Force of Arms
1951 · Director
The Screen Director
1951 · Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
The Breaking Point
1950 · Director
Bright Leaf
1950 · Director
Young Man with a Horn
1950 · Director
The Lady Takes a Sailor
1949 · Director
It's a Great Feeling
1949 · Michael Curtiz (uncredited)
Flamingo Road
1949 · Director
Flamingo Road
1949 · Executive Producer
My Dream Is Yours
1949 · Director
My Dream Is Yours
1949 · Executive Producer
Romance on the High Seas
1948 · Director
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
The Unsuspected
1947 · Director
The Unsuspected
1947 · Producer
Life with Father
1947 · Director
Night and Day
1946 · Director
Mildred Pierce
1945 · Director
Roughly Speaking
1945 · Director
Janie
1944 · Director
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