Biography: life and films
Michael Curtiz was an American film director whose birth name was Mano Kaminer Kertesz. He was born in Budapest, Hungary on 24th December 1886 and died in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA on 10th April 1962, aged 75.His best films as a film director include Captain Blood (1935), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), The Sea Hawk (1940) and Mildred Pierce (1945).
Michael Curtiz directed 113 films and scripted 1 film.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Archie Mayo (3 films).
His most frequent genres include: drama (67 films), romance (33), comedy (17), comedy-romance (15), comedy-drama (11), Western (10), War (10), Biography (9), history (8), Thriller (5), Horror (4) and crime-thriller (2).
Our average rating for Michael Curtiz over all films is: 3.1
Filmography
Key: d = director; a = actor; w = writer
Atlantis (1913) [a]
Frau Dorothys Bekenntnis (1921) [d,w]
Sodom und Gomorrha (1922) [d,w]
Die Lawine (1923) [d]
Die Sklavenkönigin (1924) [d]
Das Spielzeug von Paris (1925) [d]
Der Goldene Schmetterling (1926) [d]
Fiaker Nr. 13 (1926) [d]
The Third Degree (1926) [d]
A Million Bid (1927) [d]
Good Time Charley (1927) [d]
The Desired Woman (1927) [d]
Noah's Ark (1928) [d]
Tenderloin (1928) [d]
Glad Rag Doll (1929) [d]
Hearts in Exile (1929) [d]
Madonna of Avenue A (1929) [d]
The Gamblers (1929) [d]
A Soldier's Plaything (1930) [d]
Bright Lights (1930) [d]
Mammy (1930) [d]
River's End (1930) [d]
The Matrimonial Bed (1930) [d]
Under a Texas Moon (1930) [d]
Dämon des Meeres (1931) [d]
God's Gift to Women (1931) [d]
The Mad Genius (1931) [d]
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) [d]
Doctor X (1932) [d]
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) [d]
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932) [d]
The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932) [d]
Female (1933) [d]
From Headquarters (1933) [d]
Goodbye Again (1933) [d]
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) [d]
Private Detective 62 (1933) [d]
The Kennel Murder Case (1933) [d]
The Keyhole (1933) [d]
The Mayor of Hell (1933) [d]
British Agent (1934) [d]
Jimmy the Gent (1934) [d]
Mandalay (1934) [d]
The Key (1934) [d]
Black Fury (1935) [d]
Front Page Woman (1935) [d]
Go Into Your Dance (1935) [d]
Little Big Shot (1935) [d]
The Case of the Curious Bride (1935) [d]
Anthony Adverse (1936) [d]
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) [d]
Black Legion (1937) [d]
Kid Galahad (1937) [d]
Marked Woman (1937) [d]
Mountain Justice (1937) [d]
The Perfect Specimen (1937) [d]
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) [d]
Four Daughters (1938) [d]
Four's a Crowd (1938) [d]
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938) [d]
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) [d]
Blackwell's Island (1939) [d]
Daughters Courageous (1939) [d]
Dodge City (1939) [d]
Four Wives (1939) [d]
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) [d]
Santa Fe Trail (1940) [d]
Virginia City (1940) [d]
Dive Bomber (1941) [d]
The Sea Wolf (1941) [d]
Captains of the Clouds (1942) [d]
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) [d]
This Is the Army (1943) [d]
Janie (1944) [d]
Passage to Marseille (1944) [d]
Roughly Speaking (1945) [d]
Life with Father (1947) [d]
The Unsuspected (1947) [d]
Romance on the High Seas (1948) [d]
Flamingo Road (1949) [d]
My Dream Is Yours (1949) [d]
The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949) [d]
Bright Leaf (1950) [d]
The Breaking Point (1950) [d]
Young Man with a Horn (1950) [d]
Force of Arms (1951) [d]
I'll See You in My Dreams (1951) [d]
Jim Thorpe -- All-American (1951) [d]
The Jazz Singer (1952) [d]
The Story of Will Rogers (1952) [d]
Trouble Along the Way (1953) [d]
The Boy from Oklahoma (1954) [d]
The Egyptian (1954) [d]
We're No Angels (1955) [d]
The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956) [d]
The Scarlet Hour (1956) [d]
The Vagabond King (1956) [d]
The Helen Morgan Story (1957) [d]
King Creole (1958) [d]
The Proud Rebel (1958) [d]
The Hangman (1959) [d]
The Man in the Net (1959) [d]
A Breath of Scandal (1960) [d]
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) [d]
Francis of Assisi (1961) [d]
The Comancheros (1961) [d]
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French cinema during the Nazi Occupation
The very best of German cinema
