Kurt Neumann

監督, プロデューサー, 俳優, 脚本

1908年4月5日 — 1958年8月21日 (50年)
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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Plex上の映画と番組

  • The Ring
    The Ring1952
  • カーニバルの女
    カーニバルの女1954
  • 大襲撃(1957)
    大襲撃(1957)1956
  • Brooklyn Orchid
    Brooklyn Orchid1942
  • The McGuerins from Brooklyn
    The McGuerins from Brooklyn1942
  • Yanks Ahoy
    Yanks Ahoy1943
  • Fall In
    Fall In1942

次として知られている:

  • 蝿男の恐怖
    蝿男の恐怖1958
  • 魔境のターザン
    魔境のターザン1945
  • 火星探険
    火星探険1950
  • ターザンと豹女
    ターザンと豹女1946
  • ターザンの怒り
    ターザンの怒り1947
  • Kronos
    Kronos1957
  • シークレット!シークレット!
    シークレット!シークレット!1967
  • 吸血鬼蘇る
    吸血鬼蘇る1943
  • 青い部屋
    青い部屋1933
  • ターザン砂漠へ行く
    ターザン砂漠へ行く1943
  • アリババの復讐
    アリババの復讐1952
  • テキサスから来た男
    テキサスから来た男1950
  • The Ring
    The Ring1952
  • カーニバルの女
    カーニバルの女1954
  • 大襲撃(1957)
    大襲撃(1957)1956
  • ターザンと巨象の襲撃
    ターザンと巨象の襲撃1953
  • She Devil
    She Devil1957
  • 与太者時代
    与太者時代1949
  • The Deerslayer
    The Deerslayer1957
  • 殺し屋ハリー/華麗なる挑戦
    殺し屋ハリー/華麗なる挑戦1974

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