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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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Kurt Neumann war ein deutscher Filmregisseur.

Der Sohn eines Fabrikanten von Blechvorlagen studierte in den 1920er-Jahren zuerst Musik in verschiedenen deutschen Städten, unter anderem in Berlin. 1926 inszenierte er seinen ersten Kurzfilm, bevor er zu Beginn der Tonfilmzeit aus Deutschland nach Hollywood kam, um für die großen Filmstudios deutsche Sprachversionen ihrer Filme zu inszenieren.

Als er der englischen Sprache mächtig war, durfte Neumann, protegiert von Carl Laemmle junior ab 1931 Kurzfilme drehen, die als Vorfilme in den Kinos liefen. Seinen ersten Langfilm drehte er 1933. In den 1930er Jahren drehte er einige B-Movies.

Im Jahr 1941 engagierte ihn der Produzent Hal Roach, um 45-minütige Spielfilme als Programmfüller für die sogenannten Double Features zu inszenieren. Dies waren in der Regel Komödien. 1945 arbeitete er mit dem Produzenten Sol Lesser zusammen und inszenierte die späten Filme der Tarzan-Serie mit Johnny Weissmüller in der Titelrolle sowie Tarzan bricht die Ketten mit Lex Barker.

In den 1950er Jahren wurde er dann bekannt für seine Science-Fiction-Filme, die heute größtenteils Klassiker sind. Seinen größten Kassenerfolg erlebte er allerdings nicht mehr, da er am 21. August 1958 in Hollywood an Ösophagus-Blutungen starb, noch bevor der Film Die Fliege mit Vincent Price in der Hauptrolle Premiere hatte. Sein Schaffen umfasste 68 Produktionen.

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