1909-07-24 ( 115 years old ) in 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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Movies
City of Violence
1951-03-23
The Pirates of Capri
1949-12-25
Apache Chief
1949-11-04
The Enchanted Valley
1948-03-24
Philo Vance's Secret Mission
1947-08-30
Philo Vance's Gamble
1947-04-12
Renegade Girl
1946-12-25
Flight to Nowhere
1946-09-30
Inside Job
1946-06-14
The Daltons Ride Again
1945-11-23
Shady Lady
1945-09-07
The Naughty Nineties
1945-06-20
See My Lawyer
1945-03-09
Frisco Sal
1945-02-22
Destiny
1944-12-22
The Invisible Man's Revenge
1944-06-09
Follow the Boys
1944-05-05
Phantom Lady
1944-01-28
Gung Ho!
1943-12-20
Crazy House
1943-10-08
Two Tickets to London
1943-06-14
Hitler's Madman
1943-06-10
Breakdowns of 1942
1942-12-31
Remember Pearl Harbor
1942-01-02
We Go Fast
1941-09-19
New Wine
1941-09-10
Buck Privates
1941-01-31
High Sierra
1941-01-23
Four Sons
1940-06-14
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939-10-13
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939-06-20
Sergeant Madden
1939-03-24
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
1939-01-13
The Duke of West Point
1938-12-29
The Shopworn Angel
1938-07-15
Yellow Jack
1938-05-19
Mannequin
1938-01-21
Smartest Girl in Town
1936-11-27
One Live Ghost
1936-11-07
Without Orders
1936-10-22
Don't Turn 'em Loose
1936-09-18
Walking on Air
1936-09-11
The Witness Chair
1936-04-23
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