Kurt Neumann

Biography

Kurt Neumann (5 April 1908, Nuremberg, Germany - 21 August 1958, Los Angeles) was a german Hollywood film director who specialized in science fiction movies in his later career. Neumann came to the US in the early talkie era, hired to direct German language versions of Hollywood films. Once he mastered English and established himself as technically proficient in filmmaking, Neumann directed such low-budget programmers as The Big Cage (1932), Secret of the Blue Room (1933) with Paul Lukas and Gloria Stuart, Hold 'Em Navy (1936), It Happened in New Orleans (1936) with child star Bobby Breen, Wide Open Faces (1937) with Joe E. Brown, and Ellery Queen: Master Detective (1939). Neumann was signed by producer Hal Roach in 1941 to direct a series of "streamliners", 45-minute features designed to fill out short double bills. Among these 4-reel comedies were About Face (1942), Brooklyn Orchid (1942), Taxi, Mister? (1943) and Yanks Ahoy (1943). In 1945, he joined the company of producer Sol Lesser, who engaged Neumann as coproducer and principal director of the Tarzan series produced by Lesser 1945-1954. The Tarzan films were produced for RKO and starred Johnny Weissmuller and later Gordo…

Directed

1. The Fly (1958) — Director
2. Tarzan and the Amazons (1945) — Director
3. Tarzan and the Huntress (1947) — Director
4. Rocketship X-M (1950) — Director
5. Kronos (1957) — Director
6. Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946) — Director
7. Secret of the Blue Room (1933) — Director
8. The Kid from Texas (1950) — Director
9. She Devil (1957) — Director
10. Mohawk (1956) — Director
11. Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953) — Director
12. Cattle Drive (1951) — Director
13. Carnival Story (1954) — Director
14. Son of Ali Baba (1952) — Director
15. The Deerslayer (1957) — Director
16. They Were So Young (1954) — Director
17. Make a Wish (1937) — Director
18. Watusi (1959) — Director
19. The Ring (1952) — Director
20. Island of Lost Men (1939) — Director
21. Counterplot (1959) — Director
22. Let's Sing Again (1936) — Director
23. The Dude Goes West (1948) — Director
24. Bad Boy (1949) — Director
25. Taxi, Mister (1943) — Director
26. Espionage (1937) — Director
27. A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940) — Director
28. Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940) — Director
29. Machete (1958) — Director
30. About Face (1942) — Director
31. Yanks Ahoy (1943) — Director
32. Violets in Spring (1936) — Director
33. Bad Men of Tombstone (1949) — Director
34. Fall In (1942) — Director
35. Unmarried (1939) — Director
36. Brooklyn Orchid (1942) — Director
37. The McGuerins from Brooklyn (1942) — Director
38. Wide Open Faces (1938) — Director
39. Wake Up and Dream (1934) — Director
40. Alias Mary Dow (1935) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Action in the North Atlantic (1943) — German (uncredited)
2. Above Suspicion (1943) — Gestapo Man (Uncredited)