Michael Curtiz

Director

1886-12-24 – 1962-04-10 · 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.

• Casablanca (1943) — Director
• Robin de los Bosques (1938) — Director
• Navidades blancas (1954) — Director
• Alma en suplicio (1945) — Director
• Ángeles con caras sucias (1938) — Director
• El capitán Blood (1935) — Director
• Yanqui Dandy (1942) — Director
• Los comancheros (1961) — Director
• No somos ángeles (1955) — Director
• El halcón del mar (1940) — Director
• Los crímenes del museo (1933) — Director
• Dodge, ciudad sin ley (1939) — Director
• King Creole, el barrio contra mí (1958) — Director
• Sinuhé, el egipcio (1954) — Director
• La vida privada de Elisabeth y Essex (1939) — Director
• Los muertos andan (1936) — Director
• Punto de ruptura (1950) — Director
• Doctor X (1932) — Director
• La carga de la Brigada Ligera (1936) — Director
• La mujer marcada (1937) — Co-Director
• Vivir con papá (1947) — Director
• El lobo de mar (1941) — Director
• Pasaje para Marsella (1944) — Director
• Camino de Santa Fe (1940) — Director