Biography

Michael Curtiz

Directing

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…

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Career average

6.7/10

Birth date

12/24/1886

Place of birth

Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Date of death

04/10/1962

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