Michael Curtiz , of her true name " Mihaly Kertész" , American Réalisateur of Hungarian origin is a , born the December 24th 1886 in an Jewish family with Budapest (Hungary), dead the April 10th 1962 of the continuations of a cancer with Hollywood (California).

Michael Curtiz left at his place at 17 years to join a circus, then to follow a training of actor to the Royal Academy for Theater and Art . In 1912, it began its career of actor and director in Hungary under the name of Mihály Kertész , carrying out on the whole 43 films.

At the end of the First World War, it leaves to work in Germany, then unloads in Hollywood in 1926, where it directs very Errol Flynn in become films of great classics of the cinema: Captain Blood (1935), the Load of the light brigade (1936) and culminating with Adventures of Robin of Wood in 1938. But it is for Casablanca , with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, that the signature of Curtiz belongs to the Pantheon of the cinema.

Style

Curtiz is often regarded as a director without really identifiable style: he worked in many different kinds, often without much originality. However, the admirors of its work allege that in the years 1940, it developed a very sophisticated style, marked by movements of camera very fluid, strong compositions, texturized, remarkable lightings for an attentive spectator.

Selective catalog of films

• 1918 : Excentric
• 1928: Noah's Ark ( Noah' S Ark ) (silent film)
• 1932: Shades towards the south ( Cabin in the knitting machine )
• 1932: Doctor X ( Doctor X )
• 1932: Twenty thousand years under the bolts ( 20.000 Years in Sing Sing )
• 1933: Masks of wax ( Mystery off the Wax Museum )
• 1934: Jimmy the race
• 1935: The Case off the curious attaches
• 1935: Captain Blood ( Captain Blood )
• 1935: Sixth edition ( Face page woman )
• 1936: the Load of the light brigade ( The Charges the Light Brigade off)
• 1937: the Last combat ( Kid Galahad )
• 1938: Adventures of Robin of Wood ( The Adventures off Robin Hood )
• 1938: Four with the Paradise
• 1938: Angels with the dirty figures ( Angels with Dirty Faces )
• 1939: private life of Elizabeth of England The Private Lives off Elizabeth and Essex
• 1939: the Conquerors ( Dodge City )
• 1940: the heroic Caravan ( Virginia City )
• 1940: the Eagle of the seas ( The Sea hawk )
• 1940: the Track of Santa Fe ( Santa Fe trail )
• 1941: the Ghost ship ( The Sea Wolf )
• 1942: the Glorious Parade ( Yankee Doodle Dandy )
• 1942: Knights of the sky ( Captains off the Clouds )
• 1942: Casablanca
• 1944: Passage for Marseilles (Passage to Marseilles)
• 1945: the Novel of Mildred Pierce ( Mildred Pierce )
• 1946: Humoresque
• 1948 : Lovesong in Rio ( Lovesong one the High Seas )
• 1949: Boulevard of passions ( Flamingo Road )
• 1950: the Woman with the dreams ( Young Man with has Horn )
• 1950: the King of the Tobacco (Bright Leaf)
• 1951: the Knight of the stage ( Jim Thorpe: AlAmerican )
• 1954: the Egyptian ( The Egyptian )
• 1955: Kitchen of the angels ( We' Re No angels )
• 1958: the Proud rebel ( The Proud Rebel )
• 1959: the Man in the net ( The Man in the Net )
• 1960: Adventurers of the river ( The Adventures off Huckleberry Fine )
• 1961: Comancheros ( The Comancheros )

See too

• Card IMDb

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