Alan Curtis
Age: 43 | From: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1909-07-24 03:23:26
Death: 1953-02-02 03:23:26
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 30
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
High Sierra
(1941) Babe
Gung Ho!
(1943) John Harbison
Phantom Lady
(1944) Scott Henderson
The Invisible Man's Revenge
(1944) Mark Foster
Mannequin
(1938) Eddie Miller
Hitler's Madman
(1943) Karel Vavra
Inside Job
(1946) Edward "Eddie" Norton
Apache Chief
(1949) Young EagleActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Paolo Giacomo | |
| 1949 | Commodore Van Diel | |
| Young Eagle | ||
| 1948 | Johnny Nelson | |
| 1947 | Philo Vance | |
| Philo Vance | ||
| 1946 | Fred Raymond | |
| Hobe Carrington | ||
| Edward "Eddie" Norton | ||
| 1945 | Emmett Dalton | |
| Marty Martin | ||
| Mr. Crawford | ||
| Charlie Rodman | ||
| Rio Jordan aka John Warren | ||
| 1944 | Cliff Banks | |
| Mark Foster | ||
| Alan Curtis (uncredited) | ||
| Scott Henderson | ||
| 1943 | John Harbison | |
| Alan Curtis | ||
| First Mate Dan Driscoll | ||
| Karel Vavra | ||
| 1942 | Bruce Gordon | |
| Self | ||
| 1941 | Bob Brandon | |
| Franz Schubert | ||
| Bob Martin | ||
| Babe | ||
| 1940 | Karl Bern | |
| 1939 | Nicky Hayden | |
| Tom Brand | ||
| Dennis Madden | ||
| Jose "Rocks" Rivera | ||
| 1938 | Strong | |
| 'Thin Lips' | ||
| Brinkerhof | ||
| Eddie Miller | ||
| 1936 | Male Model who Escorts Cookie | |
| Alan | ||
| Co-Pilot | ||
| Wedding Attendant with Telegram | ||
| Fred Randolph | ||
| Reporter in Coutroom | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
