Michael Curtiz
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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.
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Casablanca (1943)
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The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
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Mildred Pierce (1945)
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Captain Blood (1935)
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White Christmas (1954)
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The Egyptian (1954)
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Doctor X (1932)
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Night and Day (1946)
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The Sea Hawk (1940)
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The Comancheros (1961)
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Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
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The Sea Wolf (1941)
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The Hangman (1959)
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Dodge City (1939)
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King Creole (1958)
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The Proud Rebel (1958)
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The Gamblers (1929)
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Santa Fe Trail (1940)
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The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
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We're No Angels (1955)
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The Vagabond King (1956)
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British Agent (1934)
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Noah's Ark (1928)
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The Walking Dead (1936)
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Bright Leaf (1950)
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Passage to Marseille (1944)
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Jimmy the Gent (1934)
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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
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Life with Father (1947)
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Dive Bomber (1941)
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The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
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Kid Galahad (1937)
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Mission to Moscow (1943)
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Young Man with a Horn (1950)
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This Is the Army (1943)
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The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949)
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Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951)
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Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
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Force of Arms (1951)
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Trouble Along the Way (1953)
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I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
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The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
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Flamingo Road (1949)
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Alraune (1918)
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The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
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The Unsuspected (1947)
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The Scorpion (1918)
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A Breath of Scandal (1960)
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Four Wives (1939)
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Virginia City (1940)
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My Dream Is Yours (1949)
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Four's a Crowd (1938)
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Romance on the High Seas (1948)
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Mammy (1930)
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The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)
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Francis of Assisi (1961)
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The Man in the Net (1959)
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
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Female (1933)
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Mountain Justice (1937)
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Private Detective 62 (1933)
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The Keyhole (1933)
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The Jazz Singer (1953)
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Front Page Woman (1935)
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Mr. Doctor (1916)
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Mandalay (1934)
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Four Daughters (1938)
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The Breaking Point (1950)
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Captains of the Clouds (1942)
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Black Fury (1935)
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The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
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The Judas (1918)
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The Devil (1918)
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Sodom and Gomorrah (1922)
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Rablélek (1914)
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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932)
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The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
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Daughters Courageous (1939)
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The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
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Boccaccio (1920)
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The Key (1934)
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Glad Rag Doll (1929)
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Goodbye Again (1933)
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Lulu (1918)
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The Carthusians (1916)
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Good and Evil (1921)
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A paradicsom (1915)
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Sons of Liberty (1939)
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Golddigger (1914)
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Roughly Speaking (1945)
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Janie (1944)
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The Scarlet Hour (1956)
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Under a Texas Moon (1930)
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The Matrimonial Bed (1930)
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My Brother Is Coming (1919)
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God's Gift to Women (1931)
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Little Big Shot (1935)
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Tartar Invasion (1917)
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Hearts in Exile (1929)
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A Soldier's Plaything (1930)
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The Third Degree (1926)
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The Mad Genius (1931)
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Moon of Israel (1924)
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Alias the Doctor (1932)
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Good Time Charley (1927)
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Bright Lights (1930)
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The Last Dawn (1917)
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Cab No. 13 (1926)
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The Perfect Specimen (1937)
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Labyrinth of Horror (1921)
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The Golden Butterfly (1926)
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Harun al Raschid (1924)
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Red Heels (1925)
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Tenderloin (1928)
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River's End (1930)
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Miss Tutti Frutti (1921)
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Magic Waltz (1918)
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Stolen Holiday (1937)
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Today and Tomorrow (1912)
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The Star of Damascus (1920)
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The Lady with the Black Gloves (1919)
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Demon of the Sea (1931)
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Liliom (—)
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The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956)
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The Desired Woman (1927)
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99 (1918)
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Master Zoard (1917)
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General Babka (—)
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Bánk bán (1915)
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The Black Rainbow (1917)
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The Merry Widow (1920)
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A Million Bid (1927)
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The Last Bohemian (1913)
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The Story Of A Kreutzer (1918)
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Melancholy Lady (1916)
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The Coronation of King Charles IV (1916)
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The Wolf (1917)
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Namenlos (1923)
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The Scourge of God (1920)
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A csúnya fiú (1918)
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The Undesirable (1915)
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Young Medardus (1923)
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Mrs. Dane's Confession (1921)
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A magyar föld ereje (1917)
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Jean the Tenant (1918)
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Avalanche (1923)
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Lu, the Coquette (1919)
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Az éjszaka rabja (—)
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Haza, haza öreg baka (1916)
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Secret of St. Job Forest (1917)
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The Sunflower Woman (1918)
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Peace's Road (1917)
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Házasodik az uram (1913)
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Madonna of Avenue A (1929)
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A kölcsönkért csecsemök (1915)
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Seven of Spades (1916)
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Spring in Winter (1918)
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The Charlatan (1917)
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Akit ketten szeretnek (1915)
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The Man Of The Earth (1917)
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A hercegnö pongyolája (1914)
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Ein Spiel ums Leben (—)
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Nobody's Son (1917)
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The Death-Bell (1917)
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A vörös Sámson (1917)
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