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