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Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz

Director · 1886 – 1962 · 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.

Movies9

  • Movie8.0
  • Movie7.0

    Show-Business at War

    1943 · 4 votes

  • Movie7.7
  • Movie6.0

    It's a Great Feeling

    1949 · 34 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.7
  • Movie5.9

    Atlantis

    1913 · 14 votes

  • Movie

    Ma és holnap

    Today and Tomorrow

    1912

  • Movie7.0

    The Screen Director

    1951 · 2 votes

Series2

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV6.5

    This Is Your Life

    1952 · 13 votes