Michael Curtiz

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.

Directed

1. Casablanca (1943) — Director
2. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) — Director
3. White Christmas (1954) — Director
4. Mildred Pierce (1945) — Director
5. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) — Director
6. Captain Blood (1935) — Director
7. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) — Director
8. The Comancheros (1961) — Director
9. We're No Angels (1955) — Director
10. The Sea Hawk (1940) — Director
11. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) — Director
12. King Creole (1958) — Director
13. Dodge City (1939) — Director
14. The Egyptian (1954) — Director
15. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) — Director
16. The Walking Dead (1936) — Director
17. The Breaking Point (1950) — Director
18. Doctor X (1932) — Director
19. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) — Director
20. Life with Father (1947) — Director
21. The Sea Wolf (1941) — Director
22. Passage to Marseille (1944) — Director
23. Santa Fe Trail (1940) — Director
24. Flamingo Road (1949) — Director
25. Kid Galahad (1937) — Director
26. The Unsuspected (1947) — Director
27. The Kennel Murder Case (1933) — Director
28. Young Man with a Horn (1950) — Director
29. The Proud Rebel (1958) — Director
30. 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) — Director
31. The Hangman (1959) — Director
32. Virginia City (1940) — Director
33. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) — Director
34. Romance on the High Seas (1948) — Director
35. Night and Day (1946) — Director
36. Four Daughters (1938) — Director
37. Dive Bomber (1941) — Director
38. Captains of the Clouds (1942) — Director
39. Female (1933) — Director
40. Francis of Assisi (1961) — Director

Also appeared in

1. It's a Great Feeling (1949) — Michael Curtiz (uncredited)
2. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) — Self
3. Atlantis (1913)
4. This Is Your Life (1952) — Self
5. The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995) — Self (archive footage)
6. The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005) — Self (archive footage)
7. Show-Business at War (1943) — Self
8. Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of (2012) — Self (archive footage)
9. The Screen Director (1951) — Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
10. You're the Star (1953) — Self
11. Today and Tomorrow (1912) — Arisztid
12. Charmed Lives: A Family Romance (2028) — Self (archive footage)