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ALAN CURTIS BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Alan Curtis was born on July 24th, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois with the birth name Harry Ueberroth. His career in entertainment first began as a working model appearing in a number of magazines and advertisements.

Hollywood took an interest in him and it did not take long before his career switched from modeling to working as an actor. Over the course of his career he would appear in over twenty six films and became quite a desired leading actor during the 1940’s.

Some of his more well known roles were in such films as, “High Sierra” (1941) starring Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino, “Buck Privates” (1942) starring Abbott and Costello and The Andrews Sisters, “Flesh and Fantasy” (1943) starring Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Robert Cummings, Thomas Mitchell and Barbara Stanwyck, "Gung Ho!" (1943) starring Randolph Scott, Robert Mitchum, Rod Cameron, J. Carrol Naish and Noah Beery Jr. and “Phantom Lady” (1944) starring with Franchot Tone, Ella Raines and Elisha Cook Jr., "Renegade Girl" (1946) starring alongside Ann Savage, Ray 'Crash' Corrigan, John 'Dusty' King, Jack Holt, Edmund Cobb and Chief Thundercloud, and his final roles were in, "The Enchanted Valley" (1948) starring with Anne Gwynne, "I Pirati di Capri" (1949) and "Schatten über Neapel" (1951).

Sadly, on February 2nd, 1953 he passed away from complications from kidney surgery at the age of forty three, in New York City, New York. His remains are buried in a family plot in Evanston, Illinois. He married a total of four times and never had any children nor were any of his marriages very successful or long lasting. He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the Motion Picture Industry.