Alan Curtis
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Alan Curtis

Jul 24, 1909 - Chicago, Illinois, USA

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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.

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Credits

Cast

Media
Movie1944Follow the BoysAlan Curtis (uncredited)
Movie1946Inside JobEdward "Eddie" Norton
Movie1938MannequinEddie Miller
Movie1945The Naughty NinetiesMr. Crawford
Movie1941High SierraBabe
Movie1944The Invisible Man's RevengeMark Foster
Movie1941Buck PrivatesBob Martin
Movie1944Phantom LadyScott Henderson
Movie1944DestinyCliff Banks
Movie1943Gung Ho!John Harbison
Movie1947Philo Vance's GamblePhilo Vance
Movie1947Philo Vance's Secret MissionPhilo Vance
Movie1939Hollywood CavalcadeNicky Hayden
Movie1943Hitler's MadmanKarel Vavra
Movie1946Renegade GirlFred Raymond
Movie1940Four SonsKarl Bern
Movie1939Good Girls Go to ParisTom Brand
Movie1945Shady LadyMarty Martin
Movie1938The Duke of West PointStrong
Movie1939Sergeant MaddenDennis Madden
Movie1946Flight to NowhereHobe Carrington
Movie1939Burn 'Em Up O'ConnorJose "Rocks" Rivera
Movie1941We Go FastBob Brandon
Movie1943Two Tickets to LondonFirst Mate Dan Driscoll
Movie1942Remember Pearl HarborBruce Gordon
Movie1936Walking on AirFred Randolph
Movie1936Without OrdersCo-Pilot
Movie1945Frisco SalRio Jordan aka John Warren
Movie1936One Live GhostAlan
Movie1949Apache ChiefYoung Eagle
Movie1936Smartest Girl in TownMale Model who Escorts Cookie
Movie1938The Shopworn Angel'Thin Lips'
Movie1936Don't Turn 'em LooseWedding Attendant with Telegram
Movie1949The Pirates of CapriCommodore Van Diel
Movie1936The Witness ChairReporter in Coutroom
Movie1945The Daltons Ride AgainEmmett Dalton
Movie1941New WineFranz Schubert
Movie1938Yellow JackBrinkerhof
Movie1945See My LawyerCharlie Rodman
Movie1943Crazy HouseAlan Curtis
Movie1948The Enchanted ValleyJohnny Nelson
Movie1951City of ViolencePaolo Giacomo
Movie1942Breakdowns of 1942Self

Crew

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