Kurt Neumann

Directing·Apr 5, 1908·Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany

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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

Film	Credit
Counterplot1959 · Director	Director
Watusi1959 · Director	Director
Machete1958 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Fly1958 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Deerslayer1957 · Producer, Screenplay, Director	Producer, Screenplay, Director
Apache Warrior1957 · Screenplay	Screenplay
She Devil1957 · Screenplay, Director, Producer	Screenplay, Director, Producer
Kronos1957 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Desperados Are in Town1956 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
Mohawk1956 · Director	Director
Adventure in Rio1955 · Director	Director
Three from Variety1954 · Director	Director
They Were So Young1954 · Screenplay, Producer, Director	Screenplay, Producer, Director
Circus of Love1954 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Carnival Story1954 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Regina Amstetten1954 · Director	Director
Tarzan and the She-Devil1953 · Director	Director
Hiawatha1952 · Director	Director
The Ring1952 · Director	Director
Son of Ali Baba1952 · Director	Director
Reunion in Reno1951 · Director	Director
Cattle Drive1951 · Director	Director
Rocketship X-M1950 · Producer, Director, Writer	Producer, Director, Writer
The Kid from Texas1950 · Director	Director
Bad Boy1949 · Director	Director
Bad Men of Tombstone1949 · Director	Director
The Dude Goes West1948 · Director	Director
Tarzan and the Huntress1947 · Director	Director
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman1946 · Director	Director
Tarzan and the Amazons1945 · Director	Director
The Unknown Guest1943 · Director	Director
Yanks Ahoy1943 · Director	Director
Action in the North Atlantic1943 · German (uncredited)	German (uncredited)
Above Suspicion1943 · Gestapo Man (Uncredited)	Gestapo Man (Uncredited)
Taxi, Mister1943 · Director	Director
The McGuerins from Brooklyn1942 · Director	Director
Fall In1942 · Director	Director
About Face1942 · Director	Director
Brooklyn Orchid1942 · Director	Director
A Night at Earl Carroll's1940 · Director	Director
Ellery Queen, Master Detective1940 · Director	Director
All Women Have Secrets1939 · Director	Director
Island of Lost Men1939 · Director	Director
Unmarried1939 · Director	Director
Ambush1939 · Director	Director
Touchdown, Army1938 · Director	Director
Wide Open Faces1938 · Director	Director
Hold 'Em Navy1937 · Director	Director