caption death_date death_place years_active birth_place other_names name birth_date image article_title birth_name occupation
michael curtiz 10 april 1962 hollywood , california , u.s. 1912 & ndash ; 61 budapest , austria-hungary michael kertész kertész mihály courtice michael kertesz mihaly kertesz michael kertész mihály michael curtiz 24 december 1886 michaelcurtiz.jpg michael curtiz
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michael curtiz

michael curtiz -lrb- december 24 , 1886 april 10 , 1962 -rrb- was a 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 '' , `` the sea wolf '' , `` angels with dirty faces '' , `` casablanca '' -lrb- for which he won the academy award for best director -rrb- , `` yankee doodle dandy '' , `` mildred pierce '' , and `` white christmas '' .
he thrived in the heyday of the warner bros. studio in the 1930s/40s .
he was less successful after the 1940s , when he attempted to move from studio direction into production and freelance work , but continued working until shortly before his death .
