---
name: "Curt Courant"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/curt-courant"
fi1m_id: "curt-courant"
imdb_id: "nm0183658"
tmdb_id: 29548
wikidata_id: "Q89163"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "11 May 1899"
died: "20 April 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T04:02:04.090760+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Curt Courant

## Identity

Curt Courant

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/curt-courant
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** curt-courant
- **IMDb ID:** nm0183658
- **TMDB ID:** 29548
- **Wikidata ID:** Q89163
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Courant, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89163, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0183658/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29548

Cinematographer. Born 11 May 1899 in Berlin, Germany. Died 20 April 1968.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 11 May 1899, Berlin, Germany
- **Died:** 20 April 1968
- **Active:** 1939–1947
- **Also known as:** Curtis Courant
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 82 (1), 1940s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Courant, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89163, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0183658/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29548

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Monsieur Verdoux*](https://film.one/film/monsieur-verdoux.md) (82)

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## Biography

Curt Courant, also credited as Curtis Courant, was a German-American cinematographer. He began his professional career in 1917 at a Berlin film production company and worked on more than 100 films during the silent and early sound eras.

Courant collaborated with Fritz Lang on *Woman in the Moon* (1929), Alfred Hitchcock on *The Man Who Knew Too Much* (1934), Jean Renoir on *La Bête Humaine* (1938) and Marcel Carné on *Daybreak* (1939). Of Jewish ancestry, he left Germany in 1933 following the Nazi rise to power and subsequently worked in Britain, France and the United States, including an uncredited role on Charlie Chaplin's *Monsieur Verdoux* (1947).

He died in Los Angeles on 20 April 1968.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Monsieur Verdoux* (1947), Fi1m 82, Supervising Art Director, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/monsieur-verdoux.md)
- *Daybreak* (1939), Fi1m 82, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/daybreak.md)

## Complete filmography (61)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *It Happened in Athens* (1962), Director of Photography
- *Song of My Heart* (1948), Production Supervisor
- *Monsieur Verdoux* (1947), Director of Photography, Supervising Art Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/monsieur-verdoux.md)
- *From Mayerling to Sarajevo* (1940), Director of Photography
- *Daybreak* (1939), Director of Photography — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/daybreak.md)
- *Louise* (1939), Director of Photography
- *La Bête Humaine* (1938), Director of Photography
- *Lights of Paris* (1938), Director of Photography
- *The Shanghai Drama* (1938), Director of Photography
- *Princess Tarakanova* (1938), Director of Photography
- *The Puritan* (1938), Director of Photography
- *Dusty Ermine* (1936), Director of Photography
- *The Man in the Mirror* (1936), Lighting Artist, Director of Photography
- *She Knew What She Wanted* (1936), Director of Photography
- *Broken Blossoms* (1936), Director of Photography
- *Cheer Up* (1936), Director of Photography
- *The Higher Command* (1935), Director of Photography
- *The Passing of the Third Floor Back* (1935), Director of Photography
- *Me and Marlborough* (1935), Director of Photography
- *The Man Who Knew Too Much* (1934), Director of Photography
- *The Iron Duke* (1934), Director of Photography
- *Ces messieurs de la Santé* (1934), Cinematography
- *Amok* (1934), Director of Photography
- *Le Voleur* (1933), Director of Photography
- *Perfect Understanding* (1933), Director of Photography
- *The Old Devil* (1933), Director of Photography
- *Married by the Stork* (1932), Cinematography
- *This One or None* (1932), Cinematography, Director of Photography
- *Gitta Discovers Her Heart* (1932), Director of Photography
- *The Unknown Singer* (1931), Director of Photography
- *My Cousin From Warsaw* (1931), Director of Photography
- *My Cousin From Warsaw* (1931), Director of Photography
- *The Man Who Committed the Murder* (1931), Director of Photography
- *The Man Who Killed* (1931), Director of Photography
- *City of Song* (1931), Director of Photography
- *The Singing City* (1930), Director of Photography
- *The White Devil* (1930), Director of Photography
- *Woman in the Moon* (1929), Director of Photography
- *The Woman One Longs For* (1929), Director of Photography
- *Hurrah! I'm Alive!* (1928), Director of Photography
- *Secrets of the Orient* (1928), Director of Photography
- *Schuldig* (1928), Director of Photography
- *Family Gathering in the House of Prellstein* (1927), Camera Operator
- *Die Czardasfürstin* (1927), Director of Photography
- *The Flight in the Night* (1926), Director of Photography
- *Gräfin Plättmamsell* (1926), Director of Photography
- *Die Welt will belogen sein* (1926), Director of Photography
- *Die Kleine vom Varieté* (1926), Director of Photography
- *Die Fahrt ins Abenteuer* (1926), Director of Photography
- *Two Brothers* (1926), Director of Photography
- *Fires of Love* (1925), Director of Photography
- *Das Paradies im Schnee* (1923), Director of Photography
- *Das Mädel von Picadilly* (1921), Director of Photography
- *Die Fremde aus der Elstergasse* (1921), Director of Photography
- *Hamlet* (1921), Director of Photography
- *Der König von Paris, 1. Teil - Die Geschichte des André Lifou* (1920), Director of Photography
- *Das Mädchen aus der Ackerstraße. 1. Teil* (1920), Director of Photography
- *Kämpfende Gewalten oder Welt ohne Krieg* (1920), Director of Photography
- *The Bodega of Los Cuerros* (1919), Director of Photography
- *Das törichte Herz* (1919), Director of Photography
- *Hilde Warren and Death* (1917), Director of Photography

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