The director of the 1936 technicolor film The Singing Cowboy was an American actor. Kurt Neumann was not an American actor.
Mack V. Wright (9 March 1894  14 August 1965) was an American actor and film director. 
Kurt Neumann (5 April 1908, Nuremberg, Germany - 21 August 1958, Los Angeles) was a German Hollywood film director who specialized in science fiction movies in his later career. 
The Singing Cowboy is a 1936 American Western film directed by Mack V. Wright and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Lois Wilde. 
