Michael Curtiz
Age: 75 | From: Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Person Details
Birthday: 1886-12-24 23:18:00
Death: 1962-04-10 23:18:00
Aliases: Manó Kertész Kaminer , Miska , Michael Courtice , Michael Kertesz , Mihaly Kertesz , Michael Kertész , Mihály Kertész , Kertész Mihály , Manó Kaminer
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
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Movie Involvements: 152
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
Biography
Michael Curtiz 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.
Most Famous Work
Casablanca
(1942) Director
The Adventures of Robin Hood
(1938) Director
Mildred Pierce
(1945) Director
White Christmas
(1954) Director
Angels with Dirty Faces
(1938) Director
The Comancheros
(1961) Director
Yankee Doodle Dandy
(1942) Director
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
(1939) DirectorActing
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| 2012 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2005 | Self (archive footage) | |
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| 1949 | Michael Curtiz (uncredited) | |
| 1948 | Self | |
| 1943 | Self | |
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| 1912 | Arisztid | |
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| 1922 | Costume Design | |
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