Kurt Neumann
Kurt Neumann (5 April 1908, Nuremberg, Germany - 21 August 1958, Los Angeles) was a german Hollywood film director who specialized in science fiction movies in his later career. Neumann came to the US in the early talkie era, hired to direct German language versions of Hollywood films.
Once he mastered English and established himself as technically proficient in filmmaking, Neumann directed such low-budget programmers as The Big Cage (1932), Secret of the Blue Room (1933) with Paul Lukas and Gloria Stuart, Hold 'Em Navy (1936), It Happened in New Orleans (1936) with child star Bobby Breen, Wide Open Faces (1937) with Joe E. Brown, and Ellery Queen: Master Detective (1939).
Neumann was signed by producer Hal Roach in 1941 to direct a series of "streamliners", 45-minute features designed to fill out short double bills. Among these 4-reel comedies were About Face (1942), Brooklyn Orchid (1942), Taxi, Mister? (1943) and Yanks Ahoy (1943).
In 1945, he joined the company of producer Sol Lesser, who engaged Neumann as coproducer and principal director of the Tarzan series produced by Lesser 1945-1954. The Tarzan films were produced for RKO and starred Johnny Weissmuller and later Gordon Scott.
Neumann became known as a specialist in science fiction movies due to his producing and directing such productions as Rocketship X-M (1950) and The Fly (1958). Neumann directed other sci-fi and horror films such as Kronos (1957) and She-Devil (1957), and directed non-scifi films such as The Ring (1952) an independent feature co-starring Rita Moreno, Carnival Story (1954), Mohawk (1956), and The Deerslayer (1957)
Contrary to some published reports, Neumann did not die as a result of suicide, but, rather, from natural causes in Los Angeles on 21 August 1958, shortly after a preview screening of The Fly but before the official premiere. Thus, Neumann never knew what a boxoffice hit The Fly was. He was entombed at Utter McKinley Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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Películas (77)
Fear on Trial
1975 · Production Manager
99 and 44/100% Dead
1974 · Assistant Director
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
1974 · Production Manager
The Brotherhood of the Bell
1970 · Assistant Director
The President's Analyst
1967 · Assistant Director
Enter Laughing
1967 · Assistant Director
Counterplot
1959 · Director
Watusi
1959 · Director
Machete
1958 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Fly
1958 · Director, Producer
The Deerslayer
1957 · Screenplay, Producer, Director
Apache Warrior
1957 · Story, Screenplay
She Devil
1957 · Screenplay, Producer, Director
Kronos
1957 · Director, Producer
The Desperados Are in Town
1956 · Screenplay, Director, Producer
Mohawk
1956 · Director
Adventure in Rio
1955 · Director
Three from Variety
1954 · Director
They Were So Young
1954 · Producer, Screenplay, Director
Circus of Love
1954 · Director, Writer
Carnival Story
1954 · Director, Screenplay
Regina Amstetten
1954 · Director
Tarzan and the She-Devil
1953 · Director
Hiawatha
1952 · Director
The Ring
1952 · Director
Son of Ali Baba
1952 · Director
Reunion in Reno
1951 · Director
Cattle Drive
1951 · Director
Rocketship X-M
1950 · Writer, Director, Producer
The Kid from Texas
1950 · Director
Bad Boy
1949 · Director
Bad Men of Tombstone
1949 · Director
The Dude Goes West
1948 · Director
Tarzan and the Huntress
1947 · Director, Associate Producer
Susie Steps Out
1946 · Story
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
1946 · Director, Associate Producer
Tarzan and the Amazons
1945 · Director, Associate Producer
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
1943 · Associate Producer
The Return of the Vampire
1943 · Story
The Unknown Guest
1943 · Director
Yanks Ahoy
1943 · Director
Action in the North Atlantic
1943 · German (uncredited)
Above Suspicion
1943 · Gestapo Man (Uncredited)
Taxi, Mister
1943 · Director
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
1942 · Director
Fall In
1942 · Director
About Face
1942 · Director
Brooklyn Orchid
1942 · Director
A Night at Earl Carroll's
1940 · Director
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
1940 · Director
All Women Have Secrets
1939 · Director
Island of Lost Men
1939 · Director
Unmarried
1939 · Director
Ambush
1939 · Director
Touchdown, Army
1938 · Director
Wide Open Faces
1938 · Director
Hold 'Em Navy
1937 · Director
Make a Wish
1937 · Director
Espionage
1937 · Director
Rainbow on the River
1936 · Director
Violets in Spring
1936 · Director
Dracula's Daughter
1936 · treatment
Let's Sing Again
1936 · Director
The Affair of Susan
1935 · Director
Alias Mary Dow
1935 · Director
Wake Up and Dream
1934 · Director
Let's Talk It Over
1934 · Director
Half a Sinner
1934 · Director
King for a Night
1933 · Director
Secret of the Blue Room
1933 · Director
The Big Cage
1933 · Director
Fast Companions
1932 · Director
My Pal, the King
1932 · Director
The Red Shadow
1932 · Director
House of Mystery
1931 · Director
Sealed Lips
1931 · Director
Trapped
1931 · Director, Writer
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