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Dick Curtis

The Lion's Den

Trail of Vengenance

Guns in the Dark

Boom Town

The Traitor

Men of San Quentin

Jack London

Gene Autry Collection: Whirlwind

AKA: Richard Curtis

Born: 05/11/1902 Newport, KY

Decades Active:
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Biography: American actor Dick Curtis may have started out as an extra, and it's true that he seldom rose above the ranks of western supporting actors, but he still managed to get himself a full-page photo spread as a "typical" villain in the 1957 coffee table book The Movies. In this book, as in most of his movies, Curtis was seen squaring off in a series of bare-knuckle bouts with his perennial opponent, cowboy star Charles Starrett. Most of Curtis' career was centered at Columbia Pictures, where he scowled and skulked his way through bad guy roles in the studio's "B" pictures, westerns, serials, and two-reel comedies. Sometimes he'd get to wear a business suit instead of frontier garb, as in his role of a jury foreman in the Boris Karloff thriller The Man They Could Not Hang (1939), but even here he was unpleasant, unsympathetic, and fully deserving of an untimely end. A more lighthearted (but no less menacing) Dick Curtis can be seen in his many two-reel appearances with Charley Chase, Hugh Herbert and The Three Stooges. As Badlands Blackie in the Stooges' Three Troubledoers (1946), Curtis' acting is gloriously overbaked, and perhaps as a reward for long and faithful service to Columbia he is permitted to deliver outrageous "double takes" which manage to out-Stooge his co-stars. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

DVDs that Dick Curtis appeared in...

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01/27/2009 - The Lion's Den
11/27/2007 - Trail of Vengenance
08/28/2007 - Renegade Girl
10/24/2006 - Guns in the Dark
06/20/2006 - Boom Town
03/28/2006 - The Traitor
08/23/2005 - Men of San Quentin
01/25/2005 - Jack London
09/14/2004 - Gene Autry Collection: Whirlwind
08/31/2004 - Rawhide