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Tall, hulking character actor Dick Curtis spent years at Columbia Pictures menacing everyone from cowboy star Charles Starrett to the slapstick team of The Three Stooges. Curtis, unlike many movie villains, showed a genuine flair for comedy--especially physical comedy--in his many appearances in the studio's two-reelers and could do a double-take, a pratfall, take a pie in the face, a finger-poke to the eyes or a crowbar on the top of the head with the best of them. Although much of his career was spent at Columbia, where he specialized in western villains, he can also be seen as one of the crewmen who set out to rescue Fay Wray from the clutches of the giant ape in the original King Kong (1933). He died in Hollywood of pneumonia in 1952.
Movie | What Waits Below | Lemurian | 1984-11-19 |
Movie | Motel Hell | Guy Robaire / TV Preacher | 1980-08-14 |
Movie | The Day It Came to Earth | Tear-gas Officer Curtis | 1977-11-01 |
Movie | Support Your Local Gunfighter | Bud Barton | 1971-05-26 |
Series | The Ray Stevens Show | 1970-06-20 | |
Series | Cattanooga Cats | 1969-09-06 | |
Movie | My Six Convicts | Guard | 1952-03-20 |
Movie | Rose of Cimarron | Clem Dawley | 1952-01-28 |
Movie | Don't Throw That Knife | Mr. Wycoff | 1951-05-03 |
Movie | Whirlwind | Lon Kramer | 1951-04-16 |
Movie | Roar of the Iron Horse | Campo - The Baron's Chief Gunman | 1951-05-31 |
Movie | Rawhide | Hawley (uncredited) | 1951-03-25 |
Movie | Three Arabian Nuts | Hassan | 1951-01-04 |
Movie | Lorna Doone | Carth | 1951-05-31 |
Movie | The Red Badge of Courage | Veteran (uncredited) | 1951-09-27 |
Movie | The Tooth Will Out | Shemp’s Last Patient (uncredited) | 1951-10-04 |
Movie | Government Agents vs Phantom Legion | Regan | 1951-07-04 |
Movie | The Texas Rangers | 1951-06-03 | |
Movie | Rock Island Trail | Barton - Railroad Agitator | 1950-05-18 |
Movie | The Vanishing Westerner | Bartender | 1950-03-31 |
Movie | The Gunfighter | Crowd Extra (uncredited) | 1950-06-23 |
Movie | Covered Wagon Raid | Henchman Grif | 1950-06-30 |
Movie | Navajo Trail Raiders | Henchman Brad | 1949-10-15 |
Movie | Bride and Gloom | Joe Keeler | 1947-03-27 |
Movie | Wyoming | Ed Lassiter | 1947-07-28 |
Movie | Lost City of the Jungle | Henchman Johnson | 1946-04-23 |
Movie | Song of Arizona | Henchman Bart | 1946-03-08 |
Movie | California Gold Rush | Chopin - the Harmonica Killer | 1946-02-04 |
Movie | Abilene Town | 'Cap' Ryker | 1946-01-11 |
Movie | The Three Troubledoers | Badlands Blackie | 1946-04-26 |
Movie | Santa Fe Uprising | Henchman Luke Case | 1946-11-15 |
Movie | Traffic in Crime | Jake Schultz | 1946-06-28 |
Movie | Lawless Breed | Bartley Mellon / Captain Isaac Mellon | 1946-08-16 |
Movie | Wild Beauty | John Andrews | 1946-08-08 |
Movie | Off Again, On Again | Louie Derringer | 1945-02-16 |
Movie | Scared Stiff | Bus Driver (Uncredited) | 1945-06-22 |
Movie | Pistol Packin' Nitwits | Rawhide Pete | 1945-04-04 |
Movie | Scarlet Street | Detective (uncredited) | 1945-12-25 |
Movie | Wagon Wheels Westward | Henchman Tuttle | 1945-12-21 |
Movie | Crash Goes the Hash | Prince Shaam of Ubeedarn | 1944-02-04 |
Movie | Lady in the Death House | Willis Millen | 1944-03-15 |
Movie | Spook Town | Sam Benson | 1944-06-03 |
Movie | Waterfront | Drunken Sailor (uncredited) | 1944-06-10 |
Movie | Mystery of the Riverboat | Craig Cassard [Ch. 1] | 1944-10-24 |
Movie | Batman | Agent Croft of Section 50 | 1943-07-16 |
Movie | Riders of the Northwest Mounted | Victor Renaud | 1943-02-15 |
Movie | Higher Than a Kite | Gen. Bommel (uncredited) | 1943-07-30 |
Movie | Cowboy in the Clouds | Roy Madison | 1943-12-23 |
Movie | The Phantom | Tartar Chieftain (uncredited) | 1943-12-24 |
Movie | I Can Hardly Wait | Patient (uncredited) | 1943-08-13 |
Movie | Salute to the Marines | Cpl. Mosley | 1943-09-02 |
Movie | Men of San Quentin | Butch Mason | 1942-05-15 |
Movie | Jackass Mail | Jim Swade | 1942-07-01 |
Movie | Shut My Big Mouth | Henchman | 1942-02-19 |
Movie | Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die | Frank McLowery | 1942-06-13 |
Movie | City of Silent Men | Ed Muller | 1942-10-12 |
Movie | Pardon My Gun | Clint Hayes | 1942-12-01 |
Movie | Vengeance of the West | Jeff Gorman | 1942-08-16 |
Movie | The Roundup | Ed Crandall (as Richard Curtis) | 1941-04-03 |
Movie | So Ends Our Night | Gestapo Stormtrooper (uncredited) | 1941-02-27 |
Movie | Across the Sierras | Mitch Carew | 1941-02-13 |
Movie | I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island | Jules | 1941-08-04 |
Movie | Billy the Kid | Kirby Claxton | 1941-05-30 |
Movie | Sea Raiders | Mate on the 'Astoria' | 1941-10-13 |
Movie | Mystery Ship | Van Brock | 1941-09-03 |
Movie | Arizona Cyclone | Quirt Crenshaw | 1941-11-14 |
Movie | Honky Tonk | Tough Man on Train | 1941-10-01 |
Movie | Stick to Your Guns | Nevada Teale | 1941-09-17 |
Movie | Bullets for Rustlers | Strang | 1940-03-05 |
Movie | Blazing Six Shooters | Lash Bender | 1940-04-10 |
Movie | Rockin' Thru the Rockies | Indian Chief (uncredited) | 1940-03-08 |
Movie | Mandrake the Magician | Dorgan - Thug (Chs. 6-8) | 1940-01-01 |
Movie | Terry and the Pirates | Master Fang | 1940-04-12 |
Movie | You Nazty Spy! | Mr. Ohnay (uncredited) | 1940-01-19 |
Movie | Pioneers of the Frontier | Matt Brawley | 1940-02-14 |
Movie | Blondie on a Budget | Tony - Mechanic (uncredited) | 1940-02-29 |
Movie | The Son of Monte Cristo | Guard (Uncredited) | 1940-12-05 |
Movie | Men Without Souls | Duke | 1940-05-20 |
Movie | Ragtime Cowboy Joe | Bo Gilman | 1940-09-19 |
Movie | Three Men from Texas | Gardner | 1940-11-15 |
Movie | Wyoming | Corky - Henchman | 1940-09-13 |
Movie | Boom Town | Hiring Boss (uncredited) | 1940-08-30 |
Movie | Texas Stagecoach | Shoshone Larsen | 1940-05-23 |
Movie | Spoilers of the Range | Lobo Savage | 1939-04-26 |
Movie | Outside These Walls | Flint | 1939-05-04 |
Movie | Mandrake the Magician | Dorgan | 1939-05-06 |
Movie | Blind Alley | Trooper with Joe | 1939-05-11 |
Movie | Let Us Live | Death Row Inmate (uncredited) | 1939-03-29 |
Movie | Homicide Bureau | Radio Broadcaster (voice) | 1939-01-05 |
Movie | Yes, We Have No Bonanza | Maxey | 1939-05-19 |
Movie | North of Shanghai | Creighton | 1939-01-24 |
Movie | The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt | Heavy (uncredited) | 1939-01-27 |
Movie | Flying G-Men | Korman | 1939-01-28 |
Movie | We Want Our Mummy | Jackson (uncredited) | 1939-02-24 |
Movie | Overland with Kit Carson | Drake | 1939-07-21 |
Movie | Western Caravans | Mort Kohler | 1939-06-14 |
Movie | The Amazing Mr. Williams | Joe (uncredited) | 1939-11-22 |
Movie | The Stranger from Texas | Bat Stringer | 1939-12-02 |
Movie | Two-Fisted Rangers | Dirk Hogan | 1939-12-13 |
Movie | My Son is Guilty | Monk | 1939-12-28 |
Movie | Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise | Clipper - Swindler in Back Seat (uncredited) | 1939-10-06 |
Movie | Glove Slingers | Madigan - Kid Benson's Trainer (uncredited) | 1939-11-24 |
Movie | Riders of Black River | Blaize Carewe | 1939-09-23 |
Movie | The Man They Could Not Hang | Jury Foreman Clifford Kearney | 1939-08-17 |
Movie | Behind Prison Gates | Capt. Simmons | 1939-07-28 |
Movie | Outpost of the Mounties | Wade Beaumont | 1939-09-12 |
Movie | You Can't Take It with You | Strongarm Man (uncredited) | 1938-09-01 |
Movie | Juvenile Court | Detective Capturing Dutch Adams (uncredited) | 1938-09-10 |
Movie | City Streets | Madden (uncredited) | 1938-07-01 |
Movie | Women in Prison | Mac | 1938-03-02 |
Movie | Rawhide | Henchman Butch | 1938-04-08 |
Movie | Crashing Through Danger | Foreman | 1938-09-14 |
Movie | The Main Event | Sawyer | 1938-06-22 |
Movie | Smashing the Spy Ring | Williams (uncredited) | 1938-12-29 |
Movie | West of the Santa Fe | Matt Taylor | 1938-10-02 |
Movie | Flat Foot Stooges | Mr. Reardon | 1938-12-05 |
Movie | Rio Grande | Ed Barker | 1938-12-08 |
Movie | The Lady Objects | Jail Guard | 1938-10-12 |
Movie | Blondie | Daily Gazette Reporter (uncredited) | 1938-11-30 |
Movie | Adventure in Sahara | Karnoldi | 1938-11-15 |
Movie | Two Gun Law | Len Edwards | 1937-04-06 |
Movie | Bar-Z Bad Men | Brent - Ranch Foreman | 1937-04-21 |
Movie | Guns in the Dark | Brace Stevens | 1937-05-13 |
Movie | Trail of Vengeance | Cartwright | 1937-03-28 |
Movie | The Singing Buckaroo | Henchman Odie | 1937-01-15 |
Movie | Moonlight on the Range | Hank - Henchman | 1937-06-10 |
Movie | Blake of Scotland Yard | Nicky | 1937-01-30 |
Movie | The Gambling Terror | Dirk | 1937-02-15 |
Movie | Valley of Terror | Henchman Buck | 1937-01-20 |
Movie | Outlaws of the Prairie | Dragg | 1937-12-01 |
Movie | The Shadow | Carlos | 1937-12-22 |
Movie | A Lawman Is Born | Lefty Drogan | 1937-06-21 |
Movie | Murder in Greenwich Village | Campbell Security Guard | 1937-11-03 |
Movie | The Old Wyoming Trail | Ed Slade | 1937-11-08 |
Movie | Boothill Brigade | Bull Berke | 1937-08-02 |
Movie | The Game That Kills | Whitey | 1937-09-21 |
Movie | Life Begins with Love | Radical (uncredited) | 1937-10-06 |
Movie | The Lion's Den | Henchman Slim Burtis | 1936-07-07 |
Movie | Wildcat Trooper | Henri | 1936-07-01 |
Movie | Ghost Patrol | Henchman Charlie | 1936-08-02 |
Movie | Burning Gold | Swede | 1936-05-22 |
Movie | The Traitor | Morgan | 1936-08-29 |
Movie | Wild Horse Round-Up | Bill | 1936-11-20 |
Movie | Phantom Patrol | Henchman Josef | 1936-09-29 |
Movie | The Nitwits | Cop on Stakeout | 1935-06-07 |
Movie | Northern Frontier | Henchman Pete (uncredited) | 1935-02-01 |
Movie | The Arizonian | Saloon Patron | 1935-06-27 |
Movie | Mutiny Ahead | Stevens (as Richard Dye) | 1935-03-01 |
Movie | Code of the Mounted | Henchman Snakey | 1935-06-07 |
Movie | Trails of the Wild | Henchman Roper | 1935-07-31 |
Movie | Racing Luck | 'Dynamite' | 1935-11-19 |
Movie | Skybound | Master of Ceremonies | 1935-09-22 |
Movie | Western Frontier | Pioneer Settler | 1935-08-07 |
Movie | King Kong | Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited) | 1933-03-15 |
Movie | The Druggist's Dilemma | Man in Crowd | 1933-05-22 |
Movie | The Famous Ferguson Case | O'Toole (uncredited) | 1932-04-19 |
Movie | Shooting Straight | Butch | 1930-07-20 |
Movie | Up the River | New Inmate (uncredited) | 1930-10-10 |
Movie | Tell It to the Marines | Marine in Barracks | 1926-12-23 |