Kurt Neumann

Kurt Neumann (5 de Abril de 1908, Nuremberg, Alemania - 21 de Agosto de 1958, Los Ángeles) was a spanish película de Hollywood director de la oms, especializada en ciencia ficción y películas, en su posterior carrera. Neumann came to the US in the early talkie era, hired to direct Spanish language versión de Hollywood de la película. Once pp registro de inicio maestro English and established himself as técnicamente hábil en cine, Neumann dirigida búsqueda de bajo presupuesto, programación as The Big Cage (1932), Secret of the Blue Room (1933) with Pablo Lucas and Gloria Stuart, Hold'Em Navy (1936), It Happened en Nueva Orleans (1936) with child star Bobby Breen, Wide Open Faces (1937) with Joe E. Brown, y Ellery Queen: Master Detective (1939). Neumann lo signed by productor Hal Roach en 1941 to direct a series of "streamliners", 45 minutos características designed to fill out corto double bill. Among these 4-reel comedies were About Face (1942), Brooklyn Orchid (1942), en Taxi, Mister? (1943) y Yanks Ahoy (1943). En 1945, pp joined the company of producer Sol Lesser, oms engaged Neumann as coproducer and principal director of the Tarzán series produced by Lesser 1945-1954. The Tarzán película were produced for RKO and starred Johnny Weissmüller and later Gordon Scott. Neumann se convirtió known as a especialista en ciencia ficción y películas, due to his and producing directing búsqueda productions as Rocketship X-M (1950) y la Mosca (1958). Neumann dirigida other sci-fi and horror films, such as Kronos (1957) and She-Devil (1957), and directed non-ciencia ficción película, such as The Ring (1952) an independent feature co-protagonizada por Rita Moreno, Carnival Story (1954), Mohawk (1956), and The Deerslayer (1957) Contrary to some published reports, Neumann did not as a result of suicide, but rather, from natural causes en Los Ángeles, on 21 de Agosto de 1958, shortly after a preview screening of The Fly but before the official estreno. Thus, Neumann never knew what a boxoffice hit The Fly qué. He was entombed at Grabe McKinley Cemetery en Los Ángeles.