Kurt Neumann
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Kurt Neumann has spent the career as a German director known, when known at all, from the credit block. Sci-fi is where most of these projects belong. The career now covers more than 95 years. 'The Fly' is the title that keeps coming up. There is 'Tarzan and the Amazons' as well. The early work was done without much attention on it.
Kurt Neumann
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Kurt Neumann has spent the career as a German director known, when known at all, from the credit block. Sci-fi is where most of these projects belong. The career now covers more than 95 years. 'The Fly' is the title that keeps coming up. There is 'Tarzan and the Amazons' as well. The early work was done without much attention on it.
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The Fly
1958
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Touchdown, Army
1938
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Tarzan and the Amazons
1945
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Cattle Drive
1951
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Son of Ali Baba
1952
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Tarzan and the Huntress
1947
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Rocketship X-M
1950
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Machete
1958
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King for a Night
1933
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They Were So Young
1954
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Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
1946
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About Face
1942
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Kronos
1957
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Mohawk
1956
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The Kid from Texas
1950
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Secret of the Blue Room
1933
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Tarzan and the She-Devil
1953
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She Devil
1957
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The Dude Goes West
1948
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Unmarried
1939
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A Night at Earl Carroll's
1940
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Watusi
1959
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The Ring
1952
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The Deerslayer
1957
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Ellery Queen, Master Detective
1940
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Brooklyn Orchid
1942
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Bad Men of Tombstone
1949
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Bad Boy
1949
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Carnival Story
1954
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Wide Open Faces
1938
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Make a Wish
1937
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Island of Lost Men
1939
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Rainbow on the River
1936
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Yanks Ahoy
1943
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Taxi, Mister
1943
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Hold 'Em Navy
1937
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Espionage
1937
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The McGuerins from Brooklyn
1942
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Fall In
1942
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Ambush
1939
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Alias Mary Dow
1935
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Counterplot
1959
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Let's Sing Again
1936
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Wake Up and Dream
1934
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Kurt Neumann still alive?
Kurt Neumann passed away on August 21, 1958 at age 50.
What are the most famous roles of Kurt Neumann?
Kurt Neumann is best known for directing The Fly, Tarzan and the Amazons, The Return of the Vampire.
How many movies has Kurt Neumann directed?
Over a 27-year career (since 1931), Kurt Neumann has directed or written 63 films and worked on 0 TV shows.
What was Kurt Neumann's first movie?
The career of Kurt Neumann began with Trapped (1931).
What is Kurt Neumann's most recent movie or series?
Kurt Neumann's most recent release is Counterplot, which premiered on October 1, 1959.
Kurt Neumann
1908-04-05 · Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
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.Kurt Neumann (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia