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Curt Siodmak(1902-2000)

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  • Producer
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Curt Siodmak
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Born in Dresden, Germany, in 1902, Curt Siodmak worked as an engineer and a newspaper reporter before entering the literary and movie fields. It was as a reporter that he got his first break (of sorts) in films: in 1926 he and his reporter-wife hired on as extras on Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) in order to get a story on the director and his film. One of Siodmak's first film-writing assignments was the screenplay for the German sci-fi picture F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932) (US title: "Floating Platform 1 Does Not Answer"), based on his own novel. Compelled to leave Germany after Adolf Hitler and the Nazis took power, Siodmak went to work as a screenwriter in England and then moved to Hollywood in 1937. He got a job at Universal through his director-friend Joe May, helping write the script for May's The Invisible Man Returns (1940). Because the film went over well, Siodmak says, he fell into the horror/science-fiction "groove."
BornAugust 10, 1902
DiedSeptember 2, 2000(98)
BornAugust 10, 1902
DiedSeptember 2, 2000(98)
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Known for

13 Demon Street (1959)
13 Demon Street
6.2
TV Series
  • Writer
Lon Chaney Jr. and Evelyn Ankers in The Wolf Man (1941)
The Wolf Man
7.2
  • Writer
  • 1941
Peter Lorre, Jon Hall, Cedric Hardwicke, and Ilona Massey in Invisible Agent (1942)
Invisible Agent
6.0
  • Writer(as Curtis Siodmak)
  • 1942
Nan Grey and Cedric Hardwicke in The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
The Invisible Man Returns
6.5
  • Writer(as Kurt Siodmak)
  • 1940

Credits

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Writer

  • Godzilla vs. Wolfman
    • In Production
  • Richard Houlihan, Tom O'Brien, Joe Filippone, Lukas Bailey, Kevin Michael Shiley, Scott E. Brosius, Zachary Keane, and Dean Houlihan in Mashup at the Movies (2021)
    Mashup at the Movies
  • The Moon, The Bat, The Monster (2019)
    The Moon, The Bat, The Monster
  • Anthony Hopkins, Benicio Del Toro, Hugo Weaving, and Emily Blunt in The Wolfman (2010)
    The Wolfman
    • (1941 motion picture screenplay)
  • Tim Curry, Jennifer Grey, and Craig Sheffer in Ritual (2002)
    Ritual
    • (1943 screenplay I Walked with a Zombie)
  • Der Heiligenschein
  • Hauser's Memory (1970)
    Hauser's Memory
  • Ski Fever (1966)
    Ski Fever
  • Captain Fathom (1965)
    Captain Fathom
  • Das Feuerschiff (1963)
    Das Feuerschiff
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)
    Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
  • The Devil's Messenger (1962)
    The Devil's Messenger
    • (uncredited)
  • The Brain (1962)
    The Brain
  • 13 Demon Street (1959)
    13 Demon Street
    • ...
  • Don Megowan in Tales of Frankenstein (1958)
    Tales of Frankenstein
  • Love Slaves of the Amazons (1957)
    Love Slaves of the Amazons

Director

  • Ski Fever (1966)
    Ski Fever
  • The Devil's Messenger (1962)
    The Devil's Messenger
    • (uncredited)
  • 13 Demon Street (1959)
    13 Demon Street
  • Don Megowan in Tales of Frankenstein (1958)
    Tales of Frankenstein
  • Love Slaves of the Amazons (1957)
    Love Slaves of the Amazons
  • Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956)
    Curucu, Beast of the Amazon
  • Jean Byron, Richard Carlson, and King Donovan in The Magnetic Monster (1953)
    The Magnetic Monster
  • Barbara Payton in Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
    Bride of the Gorilla
    • (directed by)
  • Christl Ehlers in People on Sunday (1930)
    People on Sunday
    • (uncredited)

Producer

  • Don Megowan in Tales of Frankenstein (1958)
    Tales of Frankenstein
  • Love Slaves of the Amazons (1957)
    Love Slaves of the Amazons
  • Captain Fathom (1955)
    Captain Fathom
  • The Berlin Blaze
  • In-development projects at IMDbPro

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People On Sunday
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People On Sunday

Personal details

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    • August 10, 1902
    • Dresden, Saxony, Germany
    • September 2, 2000
    • Three Rivers, California, USA(natural causes)
    • Henrietta Siodmak1931 - September 2, 2000 (his death)
  • Other works
    Novel: "Donovan's Brain". NOTE: Filmed as Donovan's Brain (1953), Donovan's Brain (1955), The Brain (1962).
  • Publicity listings
    • 3 Print Biographies
    • 3 Interviews

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    Decided to emigrate from his native Germany to England after hearing an anti-Semitic tirade by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
  • Quotes
    Every night I say "Heil Hitler", because, without the son of a bitch [Adolf Hitler], I wouldn't be in Three Rivers, California, I'd still be in Berlin.
    • Donovan's Brain
      (1953)
      $1,900 (film rights to his novel)

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