Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
157
Gender
Male
Birthday
1886-12-24
Day of Death
1962-04-10 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Also Known As
Manó Kertész Kaminer
Miska
Michael Courtice
Michael Kertesz
Mihaly Kertesz
Michael Kertész
Mihály Kertész
Kertész Mihály
Manó Kaminer
마이클 커티즈
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.
