Alan Curtis

Alan Curtis

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.

  • Title : Alan Curtis
  • Popularity : 3.675
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1909-07-24
  • Place of Birth : Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Alan Curtis Movies

  • 1944
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    Follow the Boys

    Follow the Boys

    5.2 1944 HD

    During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical...

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  • 1946
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    Inside Job

    Inside Job

    5.6 1946 HD

    A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it...

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  • 1938
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    Mannequin

    Mannequin

    6 1938 HD

    Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left...

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  • 1945
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    The Naughty Nineties

    The Naughty Nineties

    6.8 1945 HD

    In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating...

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  • 1941
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    High Sierra

    High Sierra

    7.016 1941 HD

    Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

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  • 1944
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    The Invisible Man's Revenge

    The Invisible Man's Revenge

    5.598 1944 HD

    A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their...

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  • 1941
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    Buck Privates

    Buck Privates

    6.6 1941 HD

    Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor....

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  • 1944
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    Phantom Lady

    Phantom Lady

    7 1944 HD

    A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.

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  • 1944
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    Destiny

    Destiny

    4.6 1944 HD

    Framed for two crimes he didn't commit, and betrayed by his girl, Cliff Banks finds himself on the run from the police. Now distrustful of everyone,...

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  • 1943
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    Gung Ho!

    Gung Ho!

    5.3 1943 HD

    A true-life epic that revolves around an exclusive bataillon of the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, "Carlson's Raiders," whose assignment is...

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  • 1947
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    Philo Vance's Gamble

    Philo Vance's Gamble

    5.7 1947 HD

    Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been...

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    Philo Vance's Secret Mission

    Philo Vance's Secret Mission

    1 1947 HD

    Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are about to be brought out into the open a murder...

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  • 1939
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    Hollywood Cavalcade

    Hollywood Cavalcade

    5.1 1939 HD

    Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...

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  • 1943
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    Hitler's Madman

    Hitler's Madman

    5.6 1943 HD

    In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.

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  • 1946
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    Renegade Girl

    Renegade Girl

    4.2 1946 HD

    A special agent hunts a female outlaw out West.

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  • 1940
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    Four Sons

    Four Sons

    7 1940 HD

    Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.

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  • 1939
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    Good Girls Go to Paris

    Good Girls Go to Paris

    7.1 1939 HD

    Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come...

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  • 1945
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    Shady Lady

    Shady Lady

    5.8 1945 HD

    A crook becomes the victim of a crafty card player who works for the District Attorney.

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  • 1938
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    The Duke of West Point

    The Duke of West Point

    3.8 1938 HD

    A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.

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  • 1939
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    Sergeant Madden

    Sergeant Madden

    6 1939 HD

    A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

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  • 1946
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    Flight to Nowhere

    Flight to Nowhere

    4.7 1946 HD

    A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.

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  • 1939
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    Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

    Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

    5 1939 HD

    An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.

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  • 1941
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    We Go Fast

    We Go Fast

    6.2 1941 HD

    A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes...

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  • 1943
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    Two Tickets to London

    Two Tickets to London

    6 1943 HD

    Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.

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  • 1942
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    Remember Pearl Harbor

    Remember Pearl Harbor

    6 1942 HD

    A man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack.

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  • 1936
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    Walking on Air

    Walking on Air

    5.8 1936 HD

    A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.

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  • 1936
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    Without Orders

    Without Orders

    6 1936 HD

    At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick who owns...

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  • 1945
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    Frisco Sal

    Frisco Sal

    4 1945 HD

    Sal comes to the Barbary Coast from New England to find out who murdered her brother. She gets a job signing in Dude's saloon, falls in love with...

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  • 1936
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    One Live Ghost

    One Live Ghost

    5 1936 HD

    Henry Morton just wants to go fishing. Little things thwart him: Maxine the maid makes noise, Sonny, a lad in the household, makes a mess, and...

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  • 1949
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    Apache Chief

    Apache Chief

    5 1949 HD

    When his tribesmen begin killing off white settlers, Young Eagle is opposed to the carnage. In order to assure a lasting peace, however, the chief...

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  • 1936
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    Smartest Girl in Town

    Smartest Girl in Town

    5.5 1936 HD

    A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.

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  • 1938
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    The Shopworn Angel

    The Shopworn Angel

    7.1 1938 HD

    During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car...

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  • 1936
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    Don't Turn 'em Loose

    Don't Turn 'em Loose

    4.8 1936 HD

    A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast...

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  • 1949
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    The Pirates of Capri

    The Pirates of Capri

    6.4 1949 HD

    A group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the...

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  • 1936
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    The Witness Chair

    The Witness Chair

    6.2 1936 HD

    Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking...

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  • 1945
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    The Daltons Ride Again

    The Daltons Ride Again

    3 1945 HD

    The notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave, they learn of a friend whose land is about to be...

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  • 1941
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    New Wine

    New Wine

    1 1941 HD

    The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.

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  • 1938
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    Yellow Jack

    Yellow Jack

    5.6 1938 HD

    A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the...

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  • 1945
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    See My Lawyer

    See My Lawyer

    6 1945 HD

    Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub...

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  • 1943
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    Crazy House

    Crazy House

    5 1943 HD

    Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names...

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  • 1948
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    The Enchanted Valley

    The Enchanted Valley

    1 1948 HD

    Armed robbers invade the home of a crippled boy and his grandfather and the effect the boy and his surroundings have on them is reforming.

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  • 1951
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    City of Violence

    City of Violence

    1 1951 HD

    Amore e sangue (released in the U.S. as "City of Violence"), the 1951 Marino Girolami (billed as "John Wolff") West German/Italian romantic action...

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  • 1942
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    Breakdowns of 1942

    Breakdowns of 1942

    6 1942 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.

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  • 1968
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    The Morecambe & Wise Show

    The Morecambe & Wise Show

    1 1968 HD

    Long-running BBC variety show presented by Britain's best-loved comedy duo, Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Based around irreverent stand-up routines,...

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