Michael Curtiz
Directing · Born 1886-12-24 · age 75 at death · 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.
Titles
Casablanca
The Adventures of Robin Hood
White Christmas
Mildred Pierce
Angels with Dirty Faces
Captain Blood
Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Comancheros
We're No Angels
The Sea Hawk
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Dodge City
King Creole
The Egyptian
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Walking Dead
The Breaking Point
Doctor X
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Marked Woman
Life with Father
The Sea Wolf
Passage to Marseille
Santa Fe Trail
Kid Galahad
Flamingo Road
The Kennel Murder Case
Black Legion
The Unsuspected
Young Man with a Horn
The Proud Rebel
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Virginia City
The Hangman
Night and Day
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Romance on the High Seas
Dive Bomber
Four Daughters
It's a Great Feeling
Captains of the Clouds
Jimmy the Gent
Female
Francis of Assisi
Trouble Along the Way
Private Detective 62
This Is the Army
Black Fury
The Scarlet Hour
Noah's Ark
My Dream Is Yours
The Mad Genius
The Cabin in the Cotton
A Breath of Scandal
Bright Leaf
The Case of the Curious Bride
Mission to Moscow
The Man in the Net
British Agent
Jim Thorpe – All-American