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Michael Curtiz is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Co-Director and Costume Design Hongrois born on 24 december 1886 at Budapest (Hongrie)

Michael Curtiz

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Birth name Manó Kertész Kaminer
Nationality Hongrie
Birth 24 december 1886 at Budapest (Hongrie)
Death 10 april 1962 (at 75 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Director

Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 – April 10, 1962) was an Academy award winning 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, many of them cinema classics, including The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood, Dodge City, The Sea Hawk, The Sea Wolf, Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director), Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mildred Pierce, and White Christmas. He thrived in the heyday of the Warner Bros. studio in the 1930s and '40s.

He 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.

Biography

Michael Curtiz naît dans une famille juive de Budapest, alors capitale du royaume de Hongrie. À 17 ans, il part de chez lui pour se joindre à un cirque, avant de s'inscrire à l'université Markoszy puis à l'Académie royale d'art dramatique — actuelle université d'art dramatique et cinématographique — dont il sort diplômé en 1906. En 1912, il commence sa carrière d'acteur et de metteur en scène sous le nom de Mihály Kertész. L'année suivante, il rejoint le studio Nordisk Film au Danemark et participe à Atlantis, un film d'August Blom, en tant qu'acteur et assistant directeur. Il exerce également comme opérateur d'actualités et assistant de Victor Sjöström et Mauritz Stiller en Suède. Il rentre au pays en 1914 où il contribue à la fondation du cinéma hongrois, réalisant notamment l'un des premiers succès nationaux, Bánk bán (1914). Après la guerre civile de 1919, il est contraint de quitter le pays à cause de la « terreur blanche » exercée sur les juifs, les intellectuels et les communistes par les armées de Miklós Horthy. Sa carrière cinématographique se divise en quatre périodes : hongroise (1912-1918), autrichienne (1919-1925), allemande (1925-1926) et américaine (1926-1961).

Il arrive à Hollywood en 1926, où il dirige notamment sa femme Lili Damita ou encore Errol Flynn dans des films devenus de très grands classiques du cinéma : Capitaine Blood (1935), La Charge de la brigade légère (1936), et Les Aventures de Robin des Bois (1938).

En 1940, il dirige un classique du film d'aventures de l'époque avec L'Aigle des mers. Mais c'est pour Casablanca (1942), avec Humphrey Bogart et Ingrid Bergman, que la signature de Curtiz appartient définitivement au panthéon du cinéma.

Michael Curtiz est mort en avril 1962 à Hollywood des suites d'un cancer. Il est enterré au Forest Lawn Memorial Park de Glendale (Californie).

Il a obtenu son étoile sur le Walk of Fame le 8 février 1960 au 6640, Hollywood Boulevard.

Best films

(1942)
(Director)

(1943)
(Director)

(1943)
(Director)

(1945)
(Director)

The Adventures of Robin Hood

(1938)
(Director)

The Comancheros

(1961)
(Director)

Usually with

Hal B. Wallis
(35 films)

Leo F. Forbstein
(33 films)

Jack Warner
(30 films)

Max Steiner
(29 films)

Orry-Kelly
(31 films)

Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Michael Curtiz (178 films)

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Year	Name	Job	Roles
1961	The Comancheros	Director
1961	Francis of Assisi	Director
1960	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Director
1960	A Breath of Scandal	Director
1959	The Man in the Net	Director
1959	The Hangman	Director
1958	King Creole	Director
1958	The Proud Rebel	Director
1957	The Helen Morgan Story	Director
1956	The Best Things in Life Are Free	Director
1956	The Scarlet Hour	Director, Producer
1956	The Vagabond King	Director
1955	We're No Angels	Director
1954	The Boy from Oklahoma	Director
1954	The Egyptian	Director
1954	White Christmas	Director
1953	The Jazz Singer	Director
1953	Trouble Along the Way	Director
1952	The Story of Will Rogers	Director
1951	Force of Arms	Director
1951	I'll See You in My Dreams	Director
1951	Jim Thorpe – All-American	Director
1950	Young Man with a Horn	Director
1950	The Breaking Point	Director
1950	Bright Leaf	Director
1949	Flamingo Road	Director, Executive Producer
1949	My Dream Is Yours	Director, Executive Producer
1949	It's a Great Feeling	Actor	Michael Curtiz (uncredited)
1949	The Lady Takes a Sailor	Director, Producer
1948	Romance on the High Seas	Director
1947	Life with Father	Director
1947	The Unsuspected	Director, Producer
1946	Night and Day	Director
1945	Mildred Pierce	Director
1945	Roughly Speaking	Director
1944	Passage to Marseille	Director
1944	Janie	Director
1943	Casablanca	Director
1943	Mission to Moscow	Director
1943	Show-Business at War	Actor	Self
1943	This Is the Army	Director
1942	Yankee Doodle Dandy	Director
1942	Captains of the Clouds	Director
1941	The Sea Wolf	Director
1941	Dive Bomber	Director
1940	The Sea Hawk	Director
1940	Santa Fe Trail	Director
1940	Virginia City	Director
1939	Dodge City	Director
1939	Sons of Liberty	Director
1939	The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex	Director
1939	Daughters Courageous	Director
1939	Four Wives	Director
1939	Blackwell's Island	Director
1938	Angels with Dirty Faces	Director
1938	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Director
1938	Four's a Crowd	Director
1938	Four Daughters	Director
1938	Gold Is Where You Find It	Director
1937	Marked Woman	Director
1937	Black Legion	Director, Co-Director
1937	Kid Galahad	Director
1937	Mountain Justice	Director
1937	The Perfect Specimen	Director
1937	Stolen Holiday	Director
1936	Anthony Adverse	Director
1936	The Charge of the Light Brigade	Director
1936	The Walking Dead	Director
1935	Captain Blood	Director
1935	Black Fury	Director
1935	Bright Lights	Producer
1935	The Case of the Curious Bride	Director
1935	Front Page Woman	Director
1935	Go Into Your Dance	Director
1935	Little Big Shot	Director
1934	Mandalay	Director
1934	British Agent	Director
1934	Jimmy the Gent	Director
1934	The Key	Director
1933	Mystery of the Wax Museum	Director
1933	Female	Director
1933	The Kennel Murder Case	Director
1933	The Keyhole	Director
1933	The Mayor of Hell	Director
1933	Private Detective 62	Director
1933	Goodbye Again	Director
1932	Doctor X	Director
1932	20,000 Years in Sing Sing	Director
1932	Alias the Doctor	Director
1932	The Cabin in the Cotton	Director
1932	The Strange Love of Molly Louvain	Director
1932	The Woman from Monte Carlo	Director
1931	The Mad Genius	Director
1931	Demon of the Sea	Director
1931	God's Gift to Women	Director
1930	Mammy	Director
1930	Under a Texas Moon	Director
1930	Bright Lights	Director
1930	The Matrimonial Bed	Director
1930	River's End	Director
1930	A Soldier's Plaything	Director
1929	The Gamblers	Director
1929	Glad Rag Doll	Director
1929	Hearts in Exile	Director
1929	Madonna of Avenue A	Director
1928	Noah's Ark	Director
1928	Tenderloin	Director
1927	The Desired Woman	Director
1927	Good Time Charley	Director
1927	A Million Bid	Director
1926	Cab No. 13	Director
1926	The Golden Butterfly	Director
1926	The Third Degree	Director
1925	Red Heels	Director
1924	A Deadly Game	Director
1924	General Babka	Director
1924	Harun al Raschid	Director
1924	Moon of Israel	Director
1923	Avalanche	Director
1923	Nameless	Director
1923	Young Medardus	Director
1922	Samson and Delilah	Costume Design
1922	Sodom and Gomorrah	Director, Writer
1921	The Devil	Director
1921	Good and Evil	Director
1921	Labyrinth of Horror	Director
1921	Mrs. Tutti Frutti	Director
1921	Mrs. Dane's Confession	Director
1921	Dracula's Death	Writer
1920	Boccaccio	Director
1920	The Scourge of God	Director
1920	The Star of Damascus	Director
1919	My Brother Is Coming	Director
1919	The Lady with the Black Gloves	Director
1919	Liliom	Director
1918	Jean the Tenant	Director
1918	Spring in Winter	Director
1918	99	Director
1918	Alraune	Director
1918	Júdás	Director
1918	Lu, the Coquette	Director, Scriptwriter
1918	Lulu	Director
1918	Magic Waltz	Director, Scriptwriter
1918	The Merry Widow	Director, Scriptwriter
1918	A skorpió I.	Director
1918	The Sunflower Woman	Director
1918	The Ugly Boy	Director
1917	The Strength of the Fatherland	Director, Writer
1917	The Charlatan	Director
1917	The Colonel	Director
1917	Earth's Man	Director
1917	The Fishing Bell	Director
1917	The Last Dawn	Director
1917	Master Zoard	Director
1917	Nobody's Son	Director
1917	Peace's Road	Director
1917	A Penny's History	Director
1917	The Red Samson	Director
1917	Secret of St. Job Forest	Director
1917	Tartar Invasion	Director, Scriptwriter
1916	The Black Rainbow	Director
1916	The Karthauzer	Director
1916	The Medic	Actor, Director
1916	Mr. Doctor	Director
1916	Seven of Spades	Director
1916	The Wolf	Director, Scriptwriter
1915	Bánk Bán	Director
1915	The Undesirable	Director
1915	One Who Is Loved By Two	Actor, Director
1914	Captive Souls	Director
1914	The Borrowed Babies	Director
1914	Golddigger	Director
1914	The Princess in a Nightrobe	Director
1914	Prisoner of the Night	Actor, Director
1913	The Last Bohemian	Director
1913	Atlantis	Actor, Director
1913	My Husband's Getting Married	Director
1912	Today and Tomorrow	Actor, Director	Arisztid