biography
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Curtiz, Michael
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originally Mihaly Kertész
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| male
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| lived:
| (1888–1962)
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| biography:
| Film director, born in Budapest, Hungary. He was a stage actor from 1906, then became a film actor and director in 1912. By the time he moved to Hollywood (1926), he had directed some 60 films in Europe. Working in every film genre he made some 125 Hollywood films, winning an Oscar for Casablanca (1942). Known for his fractured English and regarded as a production-line director, he later gained from re-appraisals of his best work. |
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