Kurt Neumann
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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.
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La mosca
Director, Productor
La hija de Drácula
treatment
Mohawk
Director
La loca misión del Dr. Schaefer
Assistant Director
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
Production Manager
Espionage
Director
Tarzán y las amazonas
Director, Associate Producer
Mannequins für Rio
Productor, Guionista, Director
Son of Ali Baba
Director
Tarzán y la mujer leopardo
Director, Associate Producer
Kronos
Director, Productor
The Deerslayer
Guionista, Productor, Director
Rocketship X-M
Escritor, Director, Productor
The Return of the Vampire
Historia
Fear on Trial
Production Manager
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Assistant Director
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Director
Tarzan el temerario
Associate Producer
99 and 44/100% Dead
Assistant Director
She Devil
Guionista, Productor, Director
Juramento cumplido
Director
Carnival Story
Director, Guionista
Nobleza vaquera
Director
Ambush
Director
Wide Open Faces
Director
Make a Wish
Director
Bad Boy
Director
Island of Lost Men
Director
Tarzán y la cazadora
Director, Associate Producer
Bad Men of Tombstone
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