Michael Curtiz

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.

Filmography of Michael Curtiz

• The Comancheros (1961)
• Francis of Assisi (1961)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
• A Breath of Scandal (1960)
• The Man in the Net (1959)
• The Hangman (1959)
• King Creole (1958)
• The Proud Rebel (1958)
• The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
• The Scarlet Hour (1956)
• The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956)
• The Vagabond King (1956)
• We're No Angels (1955)
• The Egyptian (1954)
• White Christmas (1954)
• The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)
• Trouble Along the Way (1953)
• The Jazz Singer (1953)
• The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
• Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951)
• I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
• Force of Arms (1951)
• Young Man with a Horn (1950)
• The Breaking Point (1950)
• Bright Leaf (1950)
• My Dream Is Yours (1949)
• Flamingo Road (1949)
• The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949)
• Romance on the High Seas (1948)
• The Unsuspected (1947)
• Life with Father (1947)
• Night and Day (1946)
• Mildred Pierce (1945)
• Roughly Speaking (1945)
• Passage to Marseille (1944)
• Janie (1944)
• Casablanca (1943)
• This Is the Army (1943)
• Mission to Moscow (1943)
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)