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Alan Curtis

Alan Curtis

Birthday: 1909-07-24 | Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alan Curtis (July 24, 1909 - February 2, 1953) was an American film actor appearing in over 50 films. Born Harry Ueberroth in Chicago, Illinois, he began his career as a model before becoming an actor, appearing in local newspaper ads. His looks did not go unnoticed in Hollywood. He began appearing in films in the late 1930s (including a Technicolor appearance in the Alice Faye-Don Ameche film Hollywood Cavalcade and a memorable role in High Sierra (1941). He is probably best known as one of the romantic leads in Abbott and Costello's first hit movie Buck Privates. His chance for leading-man stardom came when he replaced the unwilling John Garfield in the 1943 production Flesh and Fantasy. Curtis played a ruthless killer opposite Gloria Jean. Unfortunately for both actors, the studio removed their performances from the final film. The footage was later expanded into a B-picture melodrama Destiny. The film failed to establish Curtis as a major-name star, but it did typecast him in hardbitten roles, like the man framed for murder in Phantom Lady (1944) and the detective Philo Vance. He starred in over two dozen movies and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Alan Curtis was married three times; his wives included actresses Priscilla Lawson and Ilona Massey. He died from complications during an operation in New York City, New York, he was 43. He is buried in the Ueberroth family plot in Evanston, Illinois. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Curtis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1949
Apache Chief

as    Young Eagle

1947
Philo Vance's Secret Mission

as    Philo Vance

1947
Philo Vance's Gamble

as    Philo Vance

1946
Renegade Girl

as    Fred Raymond

1945
Shady Lady

as    Marty Martin

1945
The Naughty Nineties

as    Mr. Crawford

1945
Frisco Sal

as    Rio Jordan aka John Warren

1944
The Invisible Man's Revenge

as    Mark Foster

1944
Phantom Lady

as    Scott Henderson

1943
Gung Ho!

as    John Harbison

1943
Hitler's Madman

as    Karel Vavra

1942
Remember Pearl Harbor

as    Bruce Gordon

1941
High Sierra

as    Babe

1941
We Go Fast

as    Bob Brandon

1940
Four Sons

as    Karl Bern

1939
Sergeant Madden

as    Dennis Madden

1939
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

as    Jose "Rocks" Rivera

1939
Hollywood Cavalcade

as    Nicky Hayden

1938
The Shopworn Angel

as    'Thin Lips'