Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz (1888–1962), Hungarian-born film director, who won an Academy Award for Casablanca (1942). He was born Mihaly Kertész and worked in Austria, Germany, and France before moving to the United States in 1926. He made several films with Errol Flynn, including Captain Blood (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Dodge City (1939). He also directed Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945), Life with Father (1947), The Unsuspected (1947), and White Christmas (1954), among others.