Michael Curtiz
Birthday
1886/12/24
Day of death
1962/04/10 (75 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Also know as
Manó Kertész Kaminer, Miska, Michael Courtice, Michael Kertesz, Mihaly Kertesz, Michael Kertész, Mihály Kertész, Kertész Mihály, Manó Kaminer, 마이클 커티즈
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...Read more
Acting
(2012) Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
as Self (archive footage)
(1949) It's a Great Feeling
as Michael Curtiz (uncredited)
(2005) The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Self (archive footage)
(1953) You're the Star
as Self
(1913) Atlantis
as ---
(1912) Today and Tomorrow
as Arisztid
(1943) Show-Business at War
as Self
(1951) The Screen Director
as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
(1952) This Is Your Life
as Self
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self