FILM DIRECTOR

Michael Curtiz

1886 - 1962

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Michael Curtiz (; 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 1,380,519 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Michael Curtiz is the 127th most popular film director, the 86th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 74th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Film Director.

Michael Curtiz is most famous for directing Casablanca.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Michael Curtiz ranks 127 out of 2,041. Before him are Howard Hawks, Victor Fleming, Jiří Menzel, Wes Craven, Claude Lelouch, and René Clément. After him are Peter Weir, William Hanna, George A. Romero, Nikita Mikhalkov, Wong Kar-wai, and Giuseppe Tornatore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Michael Curtiz ranks 35. Before him are Hugo Ball, Athenagoras I of Constantinople, Kurt Koffka, Archibald Hill, Gerda Wegener, and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. After him are Garegin Nzhdeh, Vittorio Pozzo, Henri Coandă, Paul Tillich, Aron Nimzowitsch, and Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel. Among people deceased in 1962, Michael Curtiz ranks 21. Before him are Arthur Compton, Vasily Stalin, René Coty, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Fritz Kreisler, and Gabriele Münter. After him are Natalia Goncharova, Shunroku Hata, Therese Neumann, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Charles Laughton, and Alfred Cortot.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Michael Curtiz ranks 86 out of 1,077. Before him are Avram Hershko (1937), Irene of Hungary (1088), Marcel Breuer (1902), Stephen II of Hungary (1101), Felix Salten (1869), and Zoltán Czibor (1929). After him are Theodore von Kármán (1881), Violant of Hungary (1215), Stephen III of Hungary (1147), József Bozsik (1925), Ladislaus III of Hungary (1199), and Georg von Békésy (1899).

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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), Béla Tarr (1955), Márta Mészáros (1931), Adolph Zukor (1873), Ladislao Vajda (1906), László Benedek (1905), Ildikó Enyedi (1955), Zoltán Fábri (1917), Ján Kadár (1918), and Charles Vidor (1900).

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