Michael Curtiz



First NameMichael
Last NameCurtiz
Full Name at BirthManó Kertész Kaminer
Age75 (age at death)
Date of BirthDecember 24, 1886
BirthplaceBudapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Date of DeathApril 10, 1962
Location of DeathHollywood, California
Cause of Deathcancer
Height5' 9" (175 cm)
Star SignCapricorn
ReligionJewish
NationalityHungarian
Occupation CategoryDirector
Claim to FameOscar winning director of Casablanca
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Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 — April 10, 1962) was an Academy award winning 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, many of them cinema classics, including The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood, Dodge City, The Sea Hawk, Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director, Yankee Doodle Dandy, and White Christmas. He thrived in the heyday of the Warner Bros. studio in the 1930s and '40s.


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Filmography

Selected Michael Curtiz film and TV show credits:


Acting Credits

1916
The Medic
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1915
One Who Is Loved by Two
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1914
Prisoner of the Night
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1913
Atlantis
Hans Fuellenberg, Friedrich's college pal

1912
Today and Tomorrow
Arisztid

Director Credits

1961
Francis of Assisi
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1961
The Comancheros
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1960
A Breath of Scandal
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1960
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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1959
The Hangman
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1959
The Man in the Net
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1958
King Creole
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1958
The Proud Rebel
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1957
The Helen Morgan Story
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1956
The Best Things in Life Are Free
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1956
The Vagabond King
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1956
The Scarlet Hour
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1955
We're No Angels
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1954
The Egyptian
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1954
White Christmas
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1954
The Boy from Oklahoma
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1953
Trouble Along the Way
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1952
The Jazz Singer
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1952
The Story of Will Rogers
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1951
Force of Arms
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1951
I'll See You in My Dreams
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1951
Jim Thorpe -- All-American
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1950
Bright Leaf
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1950
The Breaking Point
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1950
Young Man with a Horn
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1949
Flamingo Road
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1949
My Dream Is Yours
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1949
The Lady Takes a Sailor
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1948
Romance on the High Seas
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1947
Life with Father
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1947
The Unsuspected
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1946
Night and Day
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1945
Mildred Pierce
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1945
Roughly Speaking
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1944
Janie
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1944
Passage to Marseille
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1943
Mission to Moscow
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1943
This Is the Army
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1942
Captains of the Clouds
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1942
Casablanca
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1942
Yankee Doodle Dandy
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1941
Dive Bomber
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1941
The Sea Wolf
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1940
Santa Fe Trail
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1940
The Sea Hawk
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1940
Virginia City
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1939
Blackwell's Island
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1939
Daughters Courageous
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1939
Dodge City
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1939
Four Wives
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1939
Essex and Elizabeth
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1939
Sons of Liberty
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1938
Angels with Dirty Faces
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1938
Four Daughters
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1938
Four's a Crowd
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1938
Gold Is Where You Find It
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1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood
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1937
Black Legion
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1937
Kid Galahad
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1937
Marked Woman
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1937
Mountain Justice
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1937
The Perfect Specimen
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1937
Stolen Holiday
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1936
Anthony Adverse
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1936
The Charge of the Light Brigade
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1936
The Walking Dead
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1935
Black Fury
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1935
Captain Blood
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1935
Front Page Woman
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1935
Go Into Your Dance
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1935
The Case of the Curious Bride
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1935
Little Big Shot
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1934
British Agent
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1934
Jimmy the Gent
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1934
Mandalay
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1934
The Key
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1933
Female
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1933
Mystery of the Wax Museum
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1933
Private Detective 62
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1933
The Kennel Murder Case
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1933
The Mayor of Hell
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1933
From Headquarters
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1933
Goodbye Again
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1933
The Keyhole
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1932
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
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1932
Doctor X
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1932
The Cabin in the Cotton
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1932
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
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1932
Alias the Doctor
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1932
The Woman from Monte Carlo
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1931
The Mad Genius
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1931
Dämon des Meeres
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1931
God's Gift to Women
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1930
Bright Lights
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1930
Mammy
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1930
A Soldier's Plaything
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1930
River's End
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1930
The Matrimonial Bed
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1930
Under a Texas Moon
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1929
Glad Rag Doll
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1929
Hearts in Exile
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1929
Madonna of Avenue A
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1929
The Gamblers
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1928
Noah's Ark
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1928
Tenderloin
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1927
The Desired Woman
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1927
Good Time Charley
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1927
A Million Bid
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1926
Fiaker Nr. 13
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1926
The Third Degree
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1926
Der goldene Schmetterling
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1925
Das Spielzeug von Paris
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1924
Die Sklavenkönigin
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1924
General Babka
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1924
Harun al Raschid
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1924
Ein Spiel ums Leben
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1923
Der junge Medardus
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1923
Die Lawine
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1923
Nameless
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1922
Sodom und Gomorrha
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1921
Labyrinth of Horror
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1921
Mrs. Dane's Confession
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1921
Good and Evil
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1921
Mrs. Tutti Frutti
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1920
Boccaccio
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1920
Die Gottesgeisel
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1920
Der Stern von Damaskus
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1919
Jön az öcsém
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1919
Die Dame mit dem schwarzen Handschuh
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1919
Liliom
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1918
Alraune
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1918
Ninety Nine
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1918
A víg özvegy
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1918
The Devil
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1918
The Ugly Boy
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1918
The Sunflower Woman
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1918
A skorpió I.
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1918
Júdás
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1918
Lu, the Coquette
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1918
Lulu
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1918
Magic Waltz
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1917
Tartar Invasion
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1917
Jean the Tenant
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1917
Peace's Road
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1917
Earth's Man
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1917
The Charlatan
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1917
Nobody's Son
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1917
Secret of St. Job Forest
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1917
The Red Samson
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1917
Az ezredes
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1917
The Fishing Bell
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1917
A Penny's History
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1917
Tavasz a télben
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1917
The Last Dawn
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1917
Master Zoard
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1916
The Black Rainbow
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1916
The Karthauzer
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1916
The Strength of the Fatherland
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1916
Mr. Doctor
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1916
The Medic
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1916
The Wolf
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1916
Seven of Spades
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1915
The Exile
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1915
One Who Is Loved by Two
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1914
Prisoner of the Night
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1914
The Princess in a Nightrobe
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1914
The Borrowed Babies
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1914
Golddigger
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1914
Bánk Bán
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1913
My Husband's Getting Married
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1913
Captive Souls
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1912
The Last Bohemian
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1912
Today and Tomorrow
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Producer Credits

1956
The Scarlet Hour
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1949
Flamingo Road
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1949
My Dream Is Yours
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1948
Romance on the High Seas
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1947
The Unsuspected
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1935
Bright Lights
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Academy Award for Best Director
Billy Wilder
David Lean
Delbert Mann
Elia Kazan
Fred Zinnemann
George Stevens
John Ford
John Huston
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Leo McCarey
Michael Curtiz
Vincente Minnelli
William Wyler
The films of Michael Curtiz
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
A Breath of Scandal (1960)
A Million Bid (1927)
A Penny's History (1917)
A skorpió I. (1918)
A Soldier's Plaything (1930)
A víg özvegy (1918)
Alraune (1918)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Az ezredes (1917)
Bánk Bán (1914)
Black Fury (1935)
Boccaccio (1920)
Bright Leaf (1950)
Bright Lights (1930)
Bright Lights (1935)
British Agent (1934)
Captain Blood (1935)
Captains of the Clouds (1942)
Captive Souls (1913)
Casablanca (1942)
Dämon des Meeres (1931)
Das Spielzeug von Paris (1925)
Daughters Courageous (1939)
Der goldene Schmetterling (1926)
Der junge Medardus (1923)
Der Stern von Damaskus (1920)
Die Dame mit dem schwarzen Handschuh (1919)
Die Gottesgeisel (1920)
Die Lawine (1923)
Die Sklavenkönigin (1924)
Dive Bomber (1941)
Doctor X (1932)
Dodge City (1939)
Earth's Man (1917)
Ein Spiel ums Leben (1924)
Essex and Elizabeth (1939)
Female (1933)
Fiaker Nr. 13 (1926)
Flamingo Road (1949)
Force of Arms (1951)
Four Daughters (1938)
Four Wives (1939)
Four's a Crowd (1938)
Francis of Assisi (1961)
Front Page Woman (1935)
General Babka (1924)
Glad Rag Doll (1929)
God's Gift to Women (1931)
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)