| Alan Curtis | |
| Birth Name: | Harry Ueberroth or Harold Neberroth |
| Birth Date: | July 24, 1909 |
| Birth Place: | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
| Resting Place: | Memorial Park Cemetery and Crematorium, Skokie, Illinois |
| Other Names: | Harold Neberroth |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Years Active: | 1936–1951 |
Alan Curtis (born Harry Ueberroth or Harold Neberroth; July 24, 1909 - February 2, 1953) was an American film actor who appeared in over 50 films.
Born Harry Ueberroth or Harold Neberroth[1] [2] in Chicago, he began his career as a model[3] 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, making his screen debut in Winterset (1936).[4] His film activities included a Technicolor appearance in the Alice Faye-Don Ameche film Hollywood Cavalcade (1939) and a memorable role in High Sierra (1941). He was one of the romantic leads in Abbott and Costello's first hit film Buck Privates (1941) and played composer Franz Schubert in The Great Awakening (1941).[5]
His chance for leading-man stardom came when he replaced the unwilling John Garfield in the production Flesh and Fantasy (1943). Curtis played a ruthless killer opposite Gloria Jean. However, the studio cut their performances from the final film version. The footage was later expanded into a B-picture melodrama Destiny (1944). He also portrayed the man framed for murder in Phantom Lady (1944) and the detective Philo Vance. Curtis starred in over two dozen movies.
Curtis was married to:
Curtis had a routine kidney operation on January 28, 1953, at Saint Clare's Hospital in Manhattan. Several hours after the surgery, as he sipped some tea, he "died" for four minutes when his heart failed. He was revived and seemed to be improving but died five days later, aged 43. He is buried in the Ueberroth family plot in Memorial Park Cemetery in Skokie, Illinois.[9]
Curtis has a star at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in the Motion Picture section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960.[10]
| width=5% | Year ! | width=25% | Title ! | width=25% | Role ! | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | The Witness Chair | Reporter in Courtroom | Uncredited | |||
| 1936 | Undersea Kingdom | Guardsman | Uncredited | |||
| 1936 | The Last Outlaw | Convertible Driver | Uncredited | |||
| 1936 | Swing Time | Minor Role | Uncredited | |||
| 1936 | Walking on Air | Fred Randolph | ||||
| 1936 | Don't Turn 'Em Loose | Wedding Attendant with Telegram | Uncredited | |||
| 1936 | Without Orders | Co-Pilot | Uncredited | |||
| 1936 | One Live Ghost | Alan | Short, Uncredited | |||
| 1936 | Smartest Girl in Town | Male Model Who Escorts Cookie | Uncredited | |||
| 1936 | Winterset | Sailor | Uncredited | |||
| 1937 | Don't Tell the Wife | Second Stockbroker at Shaw & Allen | Uncredited | |||
| 1937 | Sea Devils | Radio Operator, Yacht Mona | Uncredited | |||
| 1937 | China Passage | Ship's Officer | Uncredited | |||
| 1937 | The Woman I Love | Uncredited | ||||
| 1937 | Between Two Women | Interne | Uncredited | |||
| 1937 | Bad Guy | Prison Switchboard Operator | Uncredited | |||
| 1937 | The Firefly | French Soldier | Uncredited | |||
| 1937 | Mannequin | Eddie Miller | ||||
| 1938 | Yellow Jack | Brinkerhof | ||||
| 1938 | The Shopworn Angel | Thin Lips | ||||
| 1938 | The Duke of West Point | Cadet Strong | ||||
| 1939 | Burn'Em Up O'Connor | Jose 'Rocks' Rivera | ||||
| 1939 | Sergeant Madden | Dennis Madden | ||||
| 1939 | Good Girls Go to Paris | Tom Brand | ||||
| 1939 | Hollywood Cavalcade | Nicky Hayden | ||||
| 1940 | Four Sons | Karl | ||||
| 1941 | High Sierra | 'Babe' | ||||
| 1941 | Come Live with Me | Bit Part | Uncredited | |||
| 1941 | Buck Privates | Bob Martin | ||||
| 1941 | Blood and Sand | Minor Role | (scenes deleted) | |||
| 1941 | The Great Awakening | Franz Schubert | ||||
| 1941 | We Go Fast | Bob Brandon | ||||
| 1942 | Remember Pearl Harbor | Bruce Gordon | ||||
| 1943 | Hitler's Madman | Karel Vavra | ||||
| 1943 | Two Tickets to London | First Mate Dan Driscoll | ||||
| 1943 | Crazy House | Himself | ||||
| 1943 | 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders | John Harbison | ||||
| 1944 | Phantom Lady | Scott Henderson | ||||
| 1944 | Follow the Boys | Himself | Uncredited | |||
| 1944 | The Invisible Man's Revenge | Mark Foster | ||||
| 1944 | Destiny | Cliff Banks | ||||
| 1945 | Frisco Sal | Rio Jordan aka John Warren | ||||
| 1945 | See My Lawyer | Charlie Rodman | ||||
| 1945 | The Naughty Nineties | Mr. Crawford | ||||
| 1945 | Shady Lady | Marty Martin | ||||
| 1945 | The Daltons Ride Again | Emmett Dalton | ||||
| 1946 | Inside Job | Eddie Norton aka Eddie Mitchell | ||||
| 1946 | Flight to Nowhere | Hobe Carrington | ||||
| 1946 | Renegade Girl | Capt. Fred Raymond | ||||
| 1947 | Philo Vance's Gamble | Philo Vance | ||||
| 1947 | Philo Vance's Secret Mission | |||||
| 1948 | The Enchanted Valley | Johnny Nelson | ||||
| 1949 | Apache Chief | Young Eagle | ||||
| 1949 | The Masked Pirate | Commodore Van Diel | ||||
| 1951 | Amore e sangue | Paolo Giacomo | (final film role) |