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Alan Curtis
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, Ill…
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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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1951
City of Violence
Movie Paolo Giacomo
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1949
The Pirates of Capri
Movie Commodore Van Diel
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1949
Apache Chief
Movie Young Eagle
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1948
The Enchanted Valley
Movie Johnny Nelson
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1947
Philo Vance's Secret Mission
Movie Philo Vance
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1947
Philo Vance's Gamble
Movie Philo Vance
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1946
Renegade Girl
Movie Fred Raymond
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1946
Flight to Nowhere
Movie Hobe Carrington
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1946
Inside Job
Movie Edward "Eddie" Norton
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1945
The Daltons Ride Again
Movie Emmett Dalton
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1945
Shady Lady
Movie Marty Martin
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1945
The Naughty Nineties
Movie Mr. Crawford
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1945
See My Lawyer
Movie Charlie Rodman
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1945
Frisco Sal
Movie Rio Jordan aka John Warren
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1944
Destiny
Movie Cliff Banks
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1944
The Invisible Man's Revenge
Movie Mark Foster
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1944
Follow the Boys
Movie Alan Curtis (uncredited)
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1944
Phantom Lady
Movie Scott Henderson
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1943
Gung Ho!
Movie John Harbison
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1943
Crazy House
Movie Alan Curtis
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1943
Two Tickets to London
Movie First Mate Dan Driscoll
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1943
Hitler's Madman
Movie Karel Vavra
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1942
Breakdowns of 1942
Movie Self
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1942
Remember Pearl Harbor
Movie Bruce Gordon
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1941
We Go Fast
Movie Bob Brandon
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1941
New Wine
Movie Franz Schubert
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1941
Buck Privates
Movie Bob Martin
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1941
High Sierra
Movie Babe
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1940
Four Sons
Movie Karl Bern
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1939
Hollywood Cavalcade
Movie Nicky Hayden
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1939
Good Girls Go to Paris
Movie Tom Brand
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1939
Sergeant Madden
Movie Dennis Madden
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1939
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
Movie Jose "Rocks" Rivera
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1938
The Duke of West Point
Movie Cadet Strong
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1938
The Shopworn Angel
Movie 'Thin Lips'
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1938
Yellow Jack
Movie Brinkerhof
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1938
Mannequin
Movie Eddie Miller
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1937
The Woman I Love
Movie (uncredited)
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1936
Smartest Girl in Town
Movie Model who Escorts Cookie (uncredited)
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1936
One Live Ghost
Movie Alan
