Kurt Neumann
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 5, 1908
- Died
- August 21, 1958 (aged 50)
- Birthplace
- Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kurt Neumann (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Filmography
99 and 44/100% Dead
Movie · Assistant Director
The Brotherhood of the Bell
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Enter Laughing
Movie · Assistant Director
The President's Analyst
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Watusi
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Counterplot
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The Fly
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Machete
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Kronos
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The Deerslayer
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She Devil
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Mohawk
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The Desperados Are in Town
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Adventure in Rio
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Carnival Story
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They Were So Young
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Circus of Love
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Three from Variety
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Regina Amstetten
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Tarzan and the She-Devil
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The Ring
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Hiawatha
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Son of Ali Baba
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Cattle Drive
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Reunion in Reno
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Rocketship X-M
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The Kid from Texas
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Bad Men of Tombstone
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Bad Boy
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The Dude Goes West
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Tarzan and the Huntress
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Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
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Tarzan and the Amazons
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The Unknown Guest
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Taxi, Mister
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Yanks Ahoy
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Brooklyn Orchid
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About Face
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The McGuerins from Brooklyn
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Fall In
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Ellery Queen, Master Detective
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A Night at Earl Carroll's
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Island of Lost Men
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Unmarried
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Ambush
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All Women Have Secrets
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Wide Open Faces
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Touchdown, Army
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Espionage
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Make a Wish
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Hold 'Em Navy
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Let's Sing Again
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Rainbow on the River
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Violets in Spring
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The Affair of Susan
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Alias Mary Dow
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Wake Up and Dream
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Let's Talk It Over
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Half a Sinner
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Secret of the Blue Room
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King for a Night
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The Big Cage
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The Red Shadow
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My Pal, the King
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Fast Companions
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Trapped
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Sealed Lips
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House of Mystery
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