Directing

Michael Curtiz

Born December 24, 1886 · Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Died April 10, 1962 · aged 75

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 thri…

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Casablanca

Casablanca · 1943

MovieDramaRomance

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade · 1936

The Charge of the Light Brigade

MovieDramaAdventure

In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.

Marked Woman

Marked Woman · 1937

MovieCrimeDrama

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood · 1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood

MovieAdventureRomance

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.

The Comancheros

The Comancheros · 1961

The Comancheros

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex · 1939

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

MovieDramaHistory

This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.

White Christmas

White Christmas · 1954

White Christmas

MovieComedyMusic

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.

The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk · 1940

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

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Casablanca

Casablanca · 1943

MovieDramaRomance

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Director

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade · 1936

The Charge of the Light Brigade

MovieDramaAdventure

In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.

Director

Marked Woman

Marked Woman · 1937

MovieCrimeDrama

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Co-Director

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood · 1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood

MovieAdventureRomance

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.

Director

The Comancheros

The Comancheros · 1961

The Comancheros

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.

Director

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex · 1939

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

MovieDramaHistory

This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.

Director

White Christmas

White Christmas · 1954

White Christmas

MovieComedyMusic

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.

Director

The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk · 1940

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

Director

Captain Blood

Captain Blood · 1935

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Director

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce · 1945

MovieCrimeDrama

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Director

The Egyptian

The Egyptian · 1954

MovieHistoryDrama

In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.

Director

King Creole

King Creole · 1958

MovieDramaMusic

Delinquent Danny Fisher flunks out of high school, quits his job as a nightclub busboy, and one night gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at The Blue Shade. Danny declines, but Fields won't take no for an answer.

Director

Black Legion

Black Legion · 1937

MovieCrimeDrama

When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

Co-Director

The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead · 1936

The Walking Dead

MovieCrimeHorror

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

Director

Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces · 1938

Angels with Dirty Faces

MovieCrimeDrama

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

Director

We're No Angels

We're No Angels · 1955

We're No Angels

MovieComedyCrime

Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store that gives supplies on credit. They initially intend to take advantage of them but have a change of heart after they find the family is in financial troubles.

Director

Dracula's Death

Dracula's Death · 1921

Dracula's Death

MovieThrillerHorror

The film is about a woman who experiences frightening visions after visiting an insane asylum where one of the inmates claims to be Count Dracula (here following the Hungarian spelling Drakula). She has trouble determining whether the inmate's visions are real or merely nightmares.

Writer

Atlantis

Atlantis · 1913

Overwhelmed by personal and professional problems, biologist Friedrich von Kammacher decides to travel abroad in order to regain the joy of living. During his adventurous journey he will meet two very different women, one of whom will be the key to his fate.

This Is the Army

This Is the Army · 1943

This Is the Army

MovieComedyMusic

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

Director

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

20,000 Years in Sing Sing · 1932

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

MovieCrimeDrama

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Director

Young Man with a Horn

Young Man with a Horn · 1950

Young Man with a Horn

MovieDramaMusic

Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jazz instead of the commercial gigs he lands, whilst also coping with the problems caused by his tempestuous marriage to an aloof heiress.

Director

Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark · 1928

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

Director

Life with Father

Life with Father · 1947

Life with Father

MovieComedyFamily

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

Director

The Sea Wolf

The Sea Wolf · 1941

MovieAdventureDrama

Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.

Director