Michael Curtiz
Directing
Born December 24, 1886 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
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
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
Self (archive footage)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Self (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
The Comancheros
Francis of Assisi
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Breath of Scandal
The Hangman
The Man in the Net
King Creole
The Proud Rebel
The Helen Morgan Story
The Best Things in Life Are Free
The Vagabond King
The Scarlet Hour
We're No Angels
White Christmas
The Egyptian
The Boy from Oklahoma
Trouble Along the Way
The Jazz Singer
This Is Your Life
Self
The Story of Will Rogers
I'll See You in My Dreams
Jim Thorpe – All-American
Force of Arms
The Breaking Point
Bright Leaf
Young Man with a Horn
The Lady Takes a Sailor
It's a Great Feeling
Michael Curtiz (uncredited)
Flamingo Road
My Dream Is Yours
Romance on the High Seas
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The Unsuspected
Life with Father
Night and Day
Mildred Pierce
Roughly Speaking
Janie
Passage to Marseille
This Is the Army
Show-Business at War
Self
Mission to Moscow
Casablanca
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Captains of the Clouds
Dive Bomber
The Sea Wolf
Santa Fe Trail
The Sea Hawk
Virginia City
Four Wives
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Daughters Courageous
Sons of Liberty
Dodge City
Angels with Dirty Faces
Four Daughters
Four's a Crowd
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Gold Is Where You Find It
The Perfect Specimen
Kid Galahad
Mountain Justice
Marked Woman
Stolen Holiday
Black Legion
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Walking Dead
Captain Blood
Little Big Shot
Bright Lights
Front Page Woman
Black Fury
The Case of the Curious Bride
British Agent
The Key
Jimmy the Gent
Mandalay
Female
The Kennel Murder Case
Goodbye Again
Private Detective 62
The Keyhole
Mystery of the Wax Museum
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
The Cabin in the Cotton
Doctor X
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Alias the Doctor
The Woman from Monte Carlo
The Mad Genius
God's Gift to Women
Demon of the Sea
River's End
A Soldier's Plaything
Bright Lights
The Matrimonial Bed
Under a Texas Moon
Mammy
Hearts in Exile
The Gamblers
Madonna of Avenue A
Glad Rag Doll
Noah's Ark
Tenderloin
Good Time Charley
The Desired Woman
A Million Bid
The Third Degree
The Golden Butterfly
Cab No. 13
Red Heels
Moon of Israel
Avalanche
Sodom and Gomorrah
Labyrinth of Horror
Mrs. Dane's Confession
Dracula's Death
Good and Evil
Miss Tutti Frutti
The Star of Damascus
Lu, the Coquette
Magic Waltz
The Scorpion
The Devil
Lulu
99
Spring in Winter
Alraune
A vörös Sámson
The Man Of The Earth
Secret of St. Job Forest
The Last Dawn
The Charlatan
Master Zoard
A magyar föld ereje
The Black Rainbow
The Wolf
The Coronation of King Charles IV
Mr. Doctor
Melancholy Lady
The Carthusians
The Undesirable
Atlantis
Today and Tomorrow
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