FILM DIRECTOR

Curt Goetz

1888 - 1960

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Curt Goetz (German: [kʊʁt ɡœt͡s] ; 17 November 1888 – 12 September 1960), born Kurt Walter Götz, was a Swiss German writer, actor and film director. He was regarded as one of the most brilliant German comedy writers of his time. With his wife Valérie von Martens, he acted in his own plays and also filmed them. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Curt Goetz has received more than 41,333 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Curt Goetz is the 1,229th most popular film director, the 4,996th most popular biography from Germany and the 60th most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Curt Goetz ranks 1,229 out of 2,041. Before him are Priit Pärn, Sidney Franklin, Gregory Ratoff, Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, Doug Liman, and Zoltan Korda. After him are David Ayer, Tony Gilroy, Gilles Grangier, Justin Lin, Naomi Kawase, and Shunji Iwai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Curt Goetz ranks 227. Before him are Donduk Kuular, Guido Romano, Carlo Oriani, Harry Crerar, James Waddell Alexander II, and Andreas Cervin. After him are Jacques de Lacretelle, Carlos Quintanilla, David Jacobs, Þórbergur Þórðarson, Andrea Andreen, and Axel Janse. Among people deceased in 1960, Curt Goetz ranks 195. Before him are Algisto Lorenzato, Karel Absolon, Henri De Deken, I. I. Chundrigar, Francis Parker Yockey, and Gregory Ratoff. After him are Bodil Katharine Biørn, Léon Sée, Juan Manuel Frutos, Ettore Chimeri, Liesl Karlstadt, and John Rupert Firth.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Curt Goetz ranks 4,996 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Mauch (1837), Volker Weidler (1962), Barbara Hendricks (1952), Joseph Weydemeyer (1818), Gabriele Kuby (1944), and Wilhelm Brinkmann (1910). After him are Wilhelm Leichum (1911), Hans Schlegel (1951), Friedel Rausch (1940), Bernd Franke (1948), Brigitte Reimann (1933), and Lothar Späth (1937).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Curt Goetz ranks 60. Before him are Curtis Bernhardt (1899), Helma Sanders-Brahms (1940), Erik Ode (1910), E. A. Dupont (1891), Georg Jacoby (1882), and Gerhard Lamprecht (1897). After him are Kurt Hoffmann (1910), Werner Klingler (1903), Kurt Neumann (1908), Walter Lassally (1926), Dennis Gansel (1973), and Peter Zadek (1926).

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Filmography

People Will Talk
Director
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.
Aug 29o 19517.1 / 10
Lucky Kids
Director
After completing work on the British musical Invitation to the Waltz, Lillian Harvey returned to her adopted country of Germany to star in the comedy-with-music Glueckskinder (Children of Fortune). Harvey plays Ann Garden, an unemployed actress who ends up in night court on a loitering charge. Here she meets Gil Taylor (Willy Fritsch), a struggling songwriter temporarily employed as a court reporter. Hoping to keep her out of jail, Gil impulsively tells the judge that he's engaged to Ann -- whereupon the judge, equally impulsively, marries the couple on the spot! After this inauspicious start, Ann and Gil embark upon a rocky (but tuneful) whirlwind romance.
Sep 19o 19366.7 / 10
Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius
Director
In the face of two world wars, Professor Prätorius, a philanthropist and a surgeon, wants to exterminate the one danger to mankind, the microbe of stupidity, as he states in a spontaneous lecture to his male and female students. When he tries to help a pregnant girl he gets involved more and more in her life and is forced to marry her.
Jan 15o 19507.1 / 10