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 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.
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1944
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1944 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1943 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1939 · nominated
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- Academy Award — Best Director · 1936 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Casablanca
Mildred Pierce
The Adventures of Robin Hood
We're No Angels
White Christmas
The Sea Wolf
The Sea Hawk
Captain Blood
The Breaking Point
Flamingo Road
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Kid Galahad
Dodge City
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Comancheros
Romance on the High Seas
Life with Father
The Unsuspected
Passage to Marseille
Captains of the Clouds
Four Daughters
Black Legion
Marked Woman
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Hangman
The Egyptian
Jim Thorpe -- All-American
My Dream Is Yours
Dive Bomber
Noah's Ark
King Creole
Young Man with a Horn
Jimmy the Gent
The Matrimonial Bed
Daughters Courageous
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Black Fury
Female
Virginia City
The Proud Rebel
Trouble Along the Way
Night and Day
The Kennel Murder Case
Private Detective 62
Doctor X
Alias the Doctor
Bright Leaf
Front Page Woman
Santa Fe Trail
Mandalay