---
name: "Curt Siodmak"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/curt-siodmak"
fi1m_id: "curt-siodmak"
imdb_id: "nm0802561"
tmdb_id: 5028
wikidata_id: "Q77489"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "10 August 1902"
died: "2 September 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T03:24:35.186588+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."
---

# Curt Siodmak

## Identity

Curt Siodmak

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/curt-siodmak
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** curt-siodmak
- **IMDb ID:** nm0802561
- **TMDB ID:** 5028
- **Wikidata ID:** Q77489
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Siodmak, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77489, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0802561/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5028

Writer. Born 10 August 1902 in Dresden, Germany. Died 2 September 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 10 August 1902, Dresden, Germany
- **Died:** 2 September 2000
- **Active:** 1941–1943
- **Also known as:** Kurt Siodmak, Curtis Siodmak
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 writing, 1 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1920s 87 (1), 1940s 81 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Siodmak, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77489, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0802561/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5028

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*The Wolf Man*](https://film.one/film/the-wolf-man.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Curt Siodmak was a German-born screenwriter and novelist. He wrote the screenplay for the 1941 Universal horror film *The Wolf Man*, which established much of the modern werewolf mythology, including the poem about the wolfbane and the silver bullet as the means of killing the creature.

Born in Dresden in 1902, Siodmak earned a doctorate in mathematics before working as a journalist and screenwriter in Germany. He contributed to the 1930 film *People on Sunday*. He left Germany in 1933 following the rise of the Nazis and worked in England and France before moving to the United States in 1937. In Hollywood he wrote or co-wrote numerous screenplays, including *I Walked with a Zombie* (1943), *Son of Dracula* (1943) and *Earth vs. the Flying Saucers* (1956). His 1942 novel *Donovan's Brain* was adapted for the screen several times. He was the brother of film director Robert Siodmak. Siodmak died in California in 2000.

*Sources: latimes.com, nytimes.com, en.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these

- *I Walked with a Zombie* (1943), Fi1m 84, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/i-walked-with-a-zombie.md)
- *The Wolf Man* (1941), Fi1m 78, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wolf-man.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Metropolis* (1927), Fi1m 87, as Working Man (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md)

## Complete filmography (61)

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

- *The Wolfman* (2010), Original Film Writer
- *Weekend am Wannsee* (2000), Actor
- *Hauser's Memory* (1970), Novel
- *Ski Fever* (1966), Director
- *Das Feuerschiff* (1963), Writer
- *Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace* (1962), Screenplay
- *The Devil's Messenger* (1962), Director, Writer
- *The Brain* (1962), Novel
- *13 Demon Street* (1959), series, Director, Writer, Creator
- *Tales of Frankenstein* (1958), Executive Producer, Director
- *Love Slaves of the Amazons* (1957), Writer, Director, Producer
- *Curucu, Beast of the Amazon* (1956), Screenplay, Director
- *Hey, Jeannie!* (1956), series, Writer
- *Earth vs. the Flying Saucers* (1956), Screenstory
- *Creature with the Atom Brain* (1955), Story, Screenplay
- *Captain Fathom* (1955), Screenplay
- *Riders to the Stars* (1954), Screenplay
- *Donovan's Brain* (1953), Novel
- *The Magnetic Monster* (1953), Director, Screenplay
- *Bride of the Gorilla* (1951), Director, Writer
- *Front Page Detective* (1951), series, Writer
- *Tarzan's Magic Fountain* (1949), Screenplay
- *Studio One* (1948), series, Director
- *Berlin Express* (1948), Story
- *The Beast with Five Fingers* (1947), Screenplay
- *The Return of Monte Cristo* (1946), Story
- *Shady Lady* (1945), Writer
- *Frisco Sal* (1945), Screenplay
- *House of Frankenstein* (1944), Story
- *The Climax* (1944), Adaptation, Screenplay
- *The Lady and the Monster* (1944), Novel
- *Son of Dracula* (1943), Original Story
- *False Faces* (1943), Writer
- *I Walked with a Zombie* (1943), Screenplay — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/i-walked-with-a-zombie.md)
- *The Mantrap* (1943), Writer
- *Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man* (1943), Screenplay
- *The Purple V* (1943), Screenplay
- *London Blackout Murders* (1943), Screenplay
- *Invisible Agent* (1942), Screenplay
- *Pacific Blackout* (1941), Story
- *The Wolf Man* (1941), Screenplay — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wolf-man.md)
- *Aloma of the South Seas* (1941), Writer
- *The Invisible Woman* (1940), Original Story
- *The Ape* (1940), Adaptation, Screenplay
- *Black Friday* (1940), Screenplay
- *The Invisible Man Returns* (1940), Screenplay, Story
- *Non-Stop New York* (1937), Writer
- *The Tunnel* (1935), Screenstory
- *Girls Will Be Boys* (1934), Writer
- *The Slump Is Over* (1934), Writer
- *Marion, That's Not Nice* (1933), Writer
- *F.P.1 Doesn't Answer* (1932), Screenplay, Novel
- *The Ball* (1931), Screenplay
- *The Ball* (1931), Screenplay
- *The Man in Search of His Murderer* (1931), Screenplay
- *The fight with the dragon or: The tragedy of the lodger* (1930), Writer
- *The Shot in the Talker Studio* (1930), Writer
- *People on Sunday* (1930), as Other · Story
- *Flucht in die Fremdenlegion* (1929), Writer
- *Maskottchen* (1929), Writer
- *Metropolis* (1927), as Working Man (uncredited) — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md)

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