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FILM DIRECTOR

Michael Curtiz

1886 - 1962

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Michael Curtiz ( kur-Tiz; born Manó Kaminer; from 1905 Mihály Kertész; Hungarian: Kertész Mihály; December 24, 1886 – April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian-American film director, recognized as one of the most prolific directors in history.: 67  He directed classic films from the silent era and numerous others during Hollywood's Golden Age, when the studio system was prevalent. Curtiz was already a well-known director in Europe when Warner Bros. invited him to Hollywood in 1926, when he was 39 years of age. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Curtiz has received more than 1,296,320 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 46 in 2019). Michael Curtiz is the 127th most popular film director (down from 102nd in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 63rd in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Film Director.

Michael Curtiz is most famous for directing Casablanca.

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  • 45

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Michael Curtiz ranks 127 out of 1,581. Before him are Michael Mann, Michael Cimino, Roy Andersson, Marcel Carné, Jiří Menzel, and Peter Greenaway. After him are Aki Kaurismäki, John Woo, Mel Brooks, Moustapha Akkad, René Clément, and Claude Lelouch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Michael Curtiz ranks 33. Before him are Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Jan Masaryk, Hugo Ball, Robert Robinson, and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. After him are Edward C. Tolman, Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, Kurt Koffka, Aron Nimzowitsch, Paul Tillich, and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1962, Michael Curtiz ranks 22. Before him are Vasily Stalin, Natalia Goncharova, Hans Luther, Fritz Kreisler, Stuart Sutcliffe, and René Coty. After him are Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, C. Wright Mills, Therese Neumann, Bruno Walter, Joseph Berchtold, and Ronald Fisher.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Michael Curtiz ranks 74 out of 866. Before him are János Áder (1959), Solomon, King of Hungary (1053), Nándor Hidegkuti (1922), Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians (940), Sándor Ferenczi (1873), and Avram Hershko (1937). After him are Béla II of Hungary (1108), Violant of Hungary (1215), Zoltán Czibor (1929), Stephen III of Hungary (1147), Irene of Hungary (1088), and Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Hungary

Among film directors born in Hungary, Michael Curtiz ranks 1. After him are István Szabó (1938), Miklós Jancsó (1921), Márta Mészáros (1931), Béla Tarr (1955), Adolph Zukor (1873), Ladislao Vajda (1906), Ildikó Enyedi (1955), Ján Kadár (1918), László Benedek (1905), Zoltán Fábri (1917), and Charles Vidor (1900).

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Filmography

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