Alan Curtis
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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.
Known for
Credits
Shady Lady (1945)
as Marty Martin
Renegade Girl (1946)
as Fred Raymond
Buck Privates (1941)
as Bob Martin
Destiny (1944)
as Cliff Banks
Hitler's Madman (1943)
as Karel Vavra
High Sierra (1941)
as Babe
The Naughty Nineties (1945)
as Mr. Crawford
The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
as Mark Foster
The Shopworn Angel (1938)
as 'Thin Lips'
Remember Pearl Harbor (1942)
as Bruce Gordon
Phantom Lady (1944)
as Scott Henderson
Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)
as Self
Follow the Boys (1944)
as Alan Curtis (uncredited)
Gung Ho! (1943)
as John Harbison
New Wine (1941)
as Franz Schubert
Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
as Tom Brand
Flight to Nowhere (1946)
as Hobe Carrington
Crazy House (1943)
as Alan Curtis
Sergeant Madden (1939)
as Dennis Madden
See My Lawyer (1945)
as Charlie Rodman
Without Orders (1936)
as Co-Pilot
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
as Nicky Hayden
Philo Vance's Gamble (1947)
as Philo Vance
Four Sons (1940)
as Karl Bern
The Daltons Ride Again (1945)
as Emmett Dalton
City of Violence (1951)
as Paolo Giacomo
Yellow Jack (1938)
as Brinkerhof
Two Tickets to London (1943)
as First Mate Dan Driscoll
The Witness Chair (1936)
as Reporter in Coutroom
Walking on Air (1936)
as Fred Randolph
Philo Vance's Secret Mission (1947)
as Philo Vance
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor (1939)
as Jose "Rocks" Rivera
The Duke of West Point (1938)
as Cadet Strong
Frisco Sal (1945)
as Rio Jordan aka John Warren
The Woman I Love (1937)
as (uncredited)
We Go Fast (1941)
as Bob Brandon
The Enchanted Valley (1948)
as Johnny Nelson
Apache Chief (1949)
as Young Eagle
Don't Turn 'em Loose (1936)
as Wedding Attendant with Telegram
Smartest Girl in Town (1936)
as Model who Escorts Cookie (uncredited)
Mannequin (1938)
as Eddie Miller
The Pirates of Capri (1949)
as Commodore Van Diel
Inside Job (1946)
as Edward "Eddie" Norton
One Live Ghost (1936)
as Alan