Michael Curtiz

from Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Artwork for It's a Great FeelingImage of Michael Curtiz

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.

Timeline

2012Aged 126

  • Poster for Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of

    Self (archive footage)

2005Aged 119

  • Poster for The Adventures of Errol Flynn

    Self (archive footage)

1961Aged 75

  • Poster for Francis of Assisi

    Director

  • Poster for The Comancheros

    Director

1960Aged 74

  • Poster for A Breath of Scandal

    Director

  • Poster for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Director

1959Aged 73

  • Poster for The Man in the Net

    Director

  • Poster for The Hangman

    Director

1958Aged 72

  • Poster for The Proud Rebel

    Director

  • Poster for King Creole

    Director

1957Aged 71

  • Poster for The Helen Morgan Story

    Director

1956Aged 70

  • Poster for The Scarlet Hour

    Producer

  • Poster for The Vagabond King

    Director

  • Poster for The Best Things in Life Are Free

    Director

1955Aged 69

  • Poster for We're No Angels

    Director

1954Aged 68

  • Poster for The Boy from Oklahoma

    Director

  • Poster for The Egyptian

    Director

  • Poster for White Christmas

    Director

1953Aged 67

1952Aged 66

  • Poster for The Story of Will Rogers

    Director

1951Aged 65

1950Aged 64

  • Poster for Young Man with a Horn

    Director

  • Poster for Bright Leaf

    Director

  • Poster for The Breaking Point

    Director

1949Aged 63

  • Poster for It's a Great Feeling

    Michael Curtiz (uncredited)

  • Poster for My Dream Is Yours

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Flamingo Road

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Lady Takes a Sailor

    Director

1948Aged 62

  • Poster for Romance on the High Seas

    Director

1947Aged 61

  • Poster for Life with Father

    Director

  • Poster for The Unsuspected

    Producer

1946Aged 60

  • Poster for Night and Day

    Director

1945Aged 59

  • Poster for Roughly Speaking

    Director

  • Poster for Mildred Pierce

    Director

1944Aged 58

  • Poster for Passage to Marseille

    Director

  • Poster for Janie

    Director

1943Aged 57

  • Poster for Show-Business at War

    Self

  • Poster for Casablanca

    Director

  • Poster for Mission to Moscow

    Director

  • Poster for This Is the Army

    Director

1942Aged 56

  • Poster for Captains of the Clouds

    Director

  • Poster for Yankee Doodle Dandy

    Director

1941Aged 55

  • Poster for The Sea Wolf

    Director

  • Poster for Dive Bomber

    Director

1940Aged 54

  • Poster for Virginia City

    Director

  • Poster for The Sea Hawk

    Director

  • Poster for Santa Fe Trail

    Director

1939Aged 53

  • Poster for Dodge City

    Director

  • Poster for Sons of Liberty

    Director

  • Poster for Daughters Courageous

    Director

  • Poster for The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

    Director

  • Poster for Four Wives

    Director

1938Aged 52

  • Poster for Gold Is Where You Find It

    Director

  • Poster for The Adventures of Robin Hood

    Director

  • Poster for Four's a Crowd

    Director

  • Poster for Four Daughters

    Director

  • Poster for Angels with Dirty Faces

    Director

1937Aged 51

  • Poster for Black Legion

    Co-Director

  • Poster for Stolen Holiday

    Director

  • Poster for Mountain Justice

    Director

  • Poster for Kid Galahad

    Director

  • Poster for The Perfect Specimen

    Director

1936Aged 50

  • Poster for The Walking Dead

    Director

  • Poster for The Charge of the Light Brigade

    Director

1935Aged 49

  • Poster for The Case of the Curious Bride

    Director

  • Poster for Black Fury

    Director

  • Poster for Front Page Woman

    Director

  • Poster for Bright Lights

    Producer

  • Poster for Little Big Shot

    Director

  • Poster for Captain Blood

    Director

1934Aged 48

  • Poster for Mandalay

    Director

  • Poster for Jimmy the Gent

    Director

  • Poster for The Key

    Director

  • Poster for British Agent

    Director

1933Aged 47

  • Poster for Mystery of the Wax Museum

    Director

  • Poster for The Keyhole

    Director

  • Poster for Private Detective 62

    Director

  • Poster for Goodbye Again

    Director

  • Poster for The Kennel Murder Case

    Director

  • Poster for Female

    Director

1932Aged 46

  • Poster for The Woman from Monte Carlo

    Director

  • Poster for Alias the Doctor

    Director

  • Poster for The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

    Director

  • Poster for Doctor X

    Director

  • Poster for The Cabin in the Cotton

    Director

  • Poster for 20,000 Years in Sing Sing

    Director

1931Aged 45

  • Poster for Demon of the Sea

    Director

  • Poster for God's Gift to Women

    Director

  • Poster for The Mad Genius

    Director

1930Aged 44

  • Poster for Mammy

    Director

  • Poster for Under a Texas Moon

    Director

  • Poster for The Matrimonial Bed

    Director

  • Poster for Bright Lights

    Director

  • Poster for A Soldier's Plaything

    Director

  • Poster for River's End

    Director

1929Aged 43

  • Poster for Glad Rag Doll

    Director

  • Poster for Madonna of Avenue A

    Director

  • Poster for The Gamblers

    Director

  • Poster for Hearts in Exile

    Director

1928Aged 42

  • Poster for Tenderloin

    Director

  • Poster for Noah's Ark

    Director

1927Aged 41

  • Poster for A Million Bid

    Director

  • Poster for The Desired Woman

    Director

  • Poster for Good Time Charley

    Director

1926Aged 40

  • Poster for Cab No. 13

    Director

  • Poster for The Golden Butterfly

    Director

  • Poster for The Third Degree

    Director

1925Aged 39

  • Poster for Red Heels

    Director

1924Aged 38

1923Aged 37

1922Aged 36

1921Aged 35

1919Aged 33

1918Aged 32

1917Aged 31

1916Aged 30

  • Poster for The Coronation of King Charles IV

    Director

1915Aged 29

1914Aged 28

1913Aged 27

1912Aged 26

  • Poster for Today and Tomorrow

    Arisztid