Alan Curtis

Known for ActingBorn 1909-07-24Died 1953-02-02Chicago, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Enchanted Valley

New Wine

City of Violence

Two Tickets to London

Sergeant Madden

See My Lawyer

Without Orders

Good Girls Go to Paris

High Sierra

Philo Vance's Secret Mission

Phantom Lady

Remember Pearl Harbor

Four Sons

The Pirates of Capri

The Woman I Love

The Shopworn Angel

Buck Privates

We Go Fast

The Naughty Nineties

One Live Ghost

The Witness Chair

Philo Vance's Gamble

Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

Walking on Air

Hollywood Cavalcade

Shady Lady

Crazy House

Mannequin

Breakdowns of 1942

Inside Job

Yellow Jack

Follow the Boys

Smartest Girl in Town

The Invisible Man's Revenge

Gung Ho!

Hitler's Madman

Destiny

Flight to Nowhere

The Daltons Ride Again

Don't Turn 'em Loose

Apache Chief

Frisco Sal

The Duke of West Point

Renegade Girl