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Michael Curtiz Biography

original name Mihály Kertész

(1888 - 1962)

Related Works

Films
1912 At Utolso Bohem (the Last Bohemian)
1926 The 3rd Degree

1929 Noah's Ark
1932 Doctor X
1933 the Mystery of the Wax Museum
1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938 Angels With Dirty Faces
1940 The Sea Hawk
1942 Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942 Casablanca
1945 Mildred Pierce
1954 White Christmas
1958 King Creole
1961 The Comancheros

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(born December 24, 1888, Budapest, Hung.—died April 10, 1962, Hollywood, Calif., U.S.) Hungarian-born American motion-picture director, credited with discovering such stars as Errol Flynn, Danny Thomas, and Doris Day.

At age 17, Curtiz joined a traveling circus and later trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Theatre and Art in Budapest. He acted and directed motion pictures in several European countries before moving to the United States in 1926.Curtiz directed nearly 50 films at Warner Brothers during the 1930s. The popular adventures starring Flynn include Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and The Sea Hawk (1940). Curtiz won an Academy Award for Casablanca (1942), starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. His later films include Mildred Pierce (1945), White Christmas (1954), and Francis of Assisi (1961).