Michael Curtiz
- Directing
- December 24, 1886 · Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
- April 10, 1962
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
Filmography
- Charmed Lives: A Family Romance · Self
- Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of · Self
- The Adventures of Errol Flynn · Self
- The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies · Self
- 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 · Director
- The Best Things in Life Are Free · Director
- The Vagabond King · Director
- The Scarlet Hour · Producer, Director
- We're No Angels · Director
- White Christmas · Director
- The Egyptian · Director
- The Boy from Oklahoma · Director
- Trouble Along the Way · Director
- The Jazz Singer · Director
- You're the Star · Self
- This Is Your Life · Self
- The Story of Will Rogers · Director
- I'll See You in My Dreams · Director
- Jim Thorpe – All-American · Director
- Force of Arms · Director
- The Screen Director · Self
- The Breaking Point · Director
- Bright Leaf · Director
- Young Man with a Horn · Director
- The Lady Takes a Sailor · Director
- It's a Great Feeling · Michael Curtiz (uncredited)
- Flamingo Road · Director, Executive producer
- My Dream Is Yours · Director, Executive producer
- Romance on the High Seas · Director
- The Ed Sullivan Show · Self
- The Unsuspected · Producer, Director
- Life with Father · Director
- Night and Day · Director
- Mildred Pierce · Director
- Roughly Speaking · Director
- Janie · Director
- Passage to Marseille · Director
- This Is the Army · Director
- Show-Business at War · Self
- Mission to Moscow · Director
- Casablanca · Director
- Yankee Doodle Dandy · Director
- Captains of the Clouds · Director
- Dive Bomber · Director
- The Sea Wolf · Director
- Santa Fe Trail · Director
- The Sea Hawk · Director
- Virginia City · Director
- Four Wives · Director
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex · Director
- Daughters Courageous · Director
- Sons of Liberty · Director
- Dodge City · Director
- Angels with Dirty Faces · Director
- Four Daughters · Director
- Four's a Crowd · Director
- The Adventures of Robin Hood · Director
- Gold Is Where You Find It · Director
- The Perfect Specimen · Director
- Kid Galahad · Director
- Mountain Justice · Director
- Marked Woman · Co-Director
- Stolen Holiday · Director
- Black Legion · Co-Director
- The Charge of the Light Brigade · Director
- The Walking Dead · Director
- Captain Blood · Director
- Little Big Shot · Director
- Bright Lights · Producer
- Front Page Woman · Director
- Black Fury · Director
- The Case of the Curious Bride · Director