Curt Siodmak was a German-American novelist, screenwriter and director.
10 Facts About Curt Siodmak
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Curt Siodmak is known for his work in the horror and science fiction film genres, with such films as The Wolf Man and Donovan's Brain.
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Curt Siodmak was the younger brother of noir director Robert Siodmak.
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Curt Siodmak's parents were both from Jewish families in Leipzig.
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Curt Siodmak acquired a degree in mathematics before beginning to write novels.
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Curt Siodmak invested early royalties earned by his first books in the 1929 movie Menschen am Sonntag, a documentary-style chronicle of the lives of four Berliners on one Sunday, based on their own lives.
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Curt Siodmak was the nephew of film producer Seymour Nebenzal, who funded Menschen am Sonntag with funds borrowed from his father, Heinrich Nebenzahl.
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Curt Siodmak decided to emigrate after hearing an anti-Semitic tirade by the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and departed for England where he made a living as a screenwriter before moving to the United States in 1937.
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Curt Siodmak's science-fiction novel Donovan's Brain was a bestseller that was translated into many languages and was adapted for the cinema several times, beginning in 1943 with The Lady and the Monster, then 1953's Donovan's Brain and 1962's The Brain.
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Curt Siodmak died in his sleep on September 2,2000, at his home in Three Rivers, California.