Alan Curtis
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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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Acting
Movie
High Sierra
as Babe
1941
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Phantom Lady
as Scott Henderson
1944
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Buck Privates
as Bob Martin
1941
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The Invisible Man's Revenge
as Mark Foster
1944
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The Naughty Nineties
as Mr. Crawford
1945
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Gung Ho!
as John Harbison
1943
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Mannequin
as Eddie Miller
1938
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The Shopworn Angel
as 'Thin Lips'
1938
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Hitler's Madman
as Karel Vavra
1943
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Follow the Boys
as Alan Curtis (uncredited)
1944
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Good Girls Go to Paris
as Tom Brand
1939
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Destiny
as Cliff Banks
1944
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Renegade Girl
as Fred Raymond
1946
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Flight to Nowhere
as Hobe Carrington
1946
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Yellow Jack
as Brinkerhof
1938
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Inside Job
as Edward "Eddie" Norton
1946
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Philo Vance's Gamble
as Philo Vance
1947
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Hollywood Cavalcade
as Nicky Hayden
1939
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The Witness Chair
as Reporter in Coutroom
1936
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The Duke of West Point
as Strong
1938
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Walking on Air
as Fred Randolph
1936
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Don't Turn 'em Loose
as Wedding Attendant with Telegram
1936
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The Pirates of Capri
as Commodore Van Diel
1949
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Shady Lady
as Marty Martin
1945