Dick Curtis
Acting • Born 1902-05-11 – Died 1952-01-03
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dick Curtis (May 11, 1902 – January 3, 1952) was an American actor who made over 230 film and television appearances during his career. Curtis was born Richard Dye in Newport, Kentucky. Standing at 6' 3", Curtis appeared in films stretching from Charles Starrett to The Three Stooges. In most of his films, he played villains or heavies. He made television appearances on The Lone Ranger and The Range Rider. He appeared in California Gold Rush, Spook Town, The Gene Autry Show, and many others. Though his forte was in villainous roles, Curtis had a genuine comedic touch. As such, modern audiences will recognize Curtis for his roles in such Three Stooges films as Yes, We Have No Bonanza, You Nazty Spy!, and The Three Troubledoers. With the help of his friend and actor Russell Hayden, Curtis helped develop Pioneertown, a western movie set location in Southern California that was used for many television and film westerns.
Filmography
170 credits
The Man They Could Not Hang
Movie • 1939
Jury Foreman Clifford Kearney
North of Shanghai
Movie • 1939
Creighton
Get Along, Little Zombie
Movie • 1946
Government Agents vs Phantom Legion
Movie • 1951
Regan
Wild Horse Round-Up
Movie • 1936
Bill
Two-Fisted Rangers
Movie • 1939
Dirk Hogan
Trail of Vengeance
Movie • 1937
Cartwright
Blake of Scotland Yard
Movie • 1937
Nicky
Flying G-Men
Movie • 1939
Korman
Waterfront
Movie • 1944
Drunken Sailor (uncredited)
The Awful Goof
Movie • 1939
Joe Mark
Lady in the Death House
Movie • 1944
Willis Millen
Stick to Your Guns
Movie • 1941
Nevada Teale
The Traitor
Movie • 1936
Morgan
Outside These Walls
Movie • 1939
Flint
Jackass Mail
Movie • 1942
Jim Swade
The Phantom
Movie • 1943
Tartar Chieftain (uncredited)
Women in Prison
Movie • 1938
Mac
Flat Foot Stooges
Movie • 1938
Mr. Reardon
Yes, We Have No Bonanza
Movie • 1939
Maxey
Crash Goes the Hash
Movie • 1944
Prince Shaam of Ubeedarn
The Three Troubledoers
Movie • 1946
Badlands Blackie
Don't Throw That Knife
Movie • 1951
Mr. Wycoff
Three Arabian Nuts
Movie • 1951
Hassan
Rawhide
Movie • 1938
Henchman Butch
Whirlwind
Movie • 1951
Lon Kramer
Men Without Souls
Movie • 1940
Duke
The Texas Rangers
Movie • 1951
The Shadow
Movie • 1937
Carlos
Code of the Mounted
Movie • 1935
Henchman Snakey
You Nazty Spy!
Movie • 1940
Mr. Ohnay (uncredited)
Higher Than a Kite
Movie • 1943
Gen. Bommel (uncredited)
Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
Movie • 1939
Clipper - Swindler in Back Seat (uncredited)
Rockin' Thru the Rockies
Movie • 1940
Indian Chief (uncredited)
Behind Prison Gates
Movie • 1939
Capt. Simmons
Ghost Patrol
Movie • 1936
Henchman Charlie
Lost City of the Jungle
Movie • 1946
Henchman Johnson
Wildcat Trooper
Movie • 1936
Henri
Phantom Patrol
Movie • 1936
Henchman Josef
Lorna Doone
Movie • 1951
Carth
Bar-Z Bad Men
Movie • 1937
Brent - Ranch Foreman
Guns in the Dark
Movie • 1937
Brace Stevens
A Lawman Is Born
Movie • 1937
Lefty Drogan
Boothill Brigade
Movie • 1937
Bull Berke
The Gambling Terror
Movie • 1937
Dirk
Mandrake the Magician
Movie • 1939
Dorgan
Overland with Kit Carson
Movie • 1939
Drake
The Game That Kills
Movie • 1937
Whitey
Crashing Through Danger
Movie • 1938
Foreman
Shooting Straight
Movie • 1930
Butch
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Movie • 1942
Frank McLowery
Tell It to the Marines
Movie • 1926
Marine in Barracks
Men of San Quentin
Movie • 1942
Butch Mason
Racing Luck
Movie • 1935
'Dynamite'
Western Frontier
Movie • 1935
Pioneer Settler
Blondie
Movie • 1938
Daily Gazette Reporter (uncredited)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Movie • 1939
Joe (uncredited)
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Movie • 1939
Heavy (uncredited)
Homicide Bureau
Movie • 1939
Radio Broadcaster (voice)
The Nitwits
Movie • 1935
Cop on Stakeout
The Famous Ferguson Case
Movie • 1932
O'Toole (uncredited)
Northern Frontier
Movie • 1935
Henchman Pete (uncredited)
Let Us Live
Movie • 1939
Death Row Inmate (uncredited)
Blind Alley
Movie • 1939
Trooper with Joe
Glove Slingers
Movie • 1939
Madigan - Kid Benson's Trainer (uncredited)
Bride and Gloom
Movie • 1947
Joe Keeler
Off Again, On Again
Movie • 1945
Louie Derringer
Arizona Cyclone
Movie • 1941
Quirt Crenshaw
Skybound
Movie • 1935
Master of Ceremonies
Ragtime Cowboy Joe
Movie • 1940
Bo Gilman
Bullets for Rustlers
Movie • 1940
Strang
Texas Stagecoach
Movie • 1940
Shoshone Larsen
Western Caravans
Movie • 1939
Mort Kohler
Adventure in Sahara
Movie • 1938
Karnoldi
Mystery Ship
Movie • 1941
Van Brock
The Lion's Den
Movie • 1936
Henchman Slim Burtis
Scarlet Street
Movie • 1945
Detective (uncredited)
You Can't Take It with You
Movie • 1938
Strongarm Man (uncredited)
Smashing the Spy Ring
Movie • 1938
Williams (uncredited)
The Lady Objects
Movie • 1938
Jail Guard
Rawhide
Movie • 1951
Hawley (uncredited)
Blondie on a Budget
Movie • 1940
Tony - Mechanic (uncredited)
Snooper Service
Movie • 1945
Lawless Breed
Movie • 1946
Bartley Mellon / Captain Isaac Mellon
City Streets
Movie • 1938
Madden (uncredited)
Burning Gold
Movie • 1936
Swede
My Son Is Guilty
Movie • 1939
Monk
The Gunfighter
Movie • 1950
Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
Wyoming
Movie • 1940
Corky - Henchman
Trails of the Wild
Movie • 1935
Henchman Roper
The Singing Buckaroo
Movie • 1937
Henchman Odie
Boom Town
Movie • 1940
Hiring Boss (uncredited)
Three Men from Texas
Movie • 1940
Gardner
Rio Grande
Movie • 1938
Ed Barker
Outlaws of the Prairie
Movie • 1937
Dragg
The Old Wyoming Trail
Movie • 1937
Ed Slade
Two Gun Law
Movie • 1937
Len Edwards
Abilene Town
Movie • 1946
'Cap' Ryker
West of the Santa Fe
Movie • 1938
Matt Taylor
Rose of Cimarron
Movie • 1952
Clem Dawley
Valley of Terror
Movie • 1937
Henchman Buck
The Stranger from Texas
Movie • 1939
Bat Stringer
Outpost of the Mounties
Movie • 1939
Wade Beaumont
Spoilers of the Range
Movie • 1939
Lobo Savage
The Red Badge of Courage
Movie • 1951
Veteran (uncredited)
Pistol Packin' Nitwits
Movie • 1945
Rawhide Pete
The Arizonian
Movie • 1935
Saloon Patron
The Son of Monte Cristo
Movie • 1940
Guard (Uncredited)
Sea Raiders
Movie • 1941
Mate on the 'Astoria'
Terry and the Pirates
Movie • 1940
Master Fang
The Druggist's Dilemma
Movie • 1933
Man in Crowd
Salute to the Marines
Movie • 1943
Cpl. Mosley
Rock Island Trail
Movie • 1950
Barton - Railroad Agitator
Traffic in Crime
Movie • 1946
Jake Schultz
Vengeance of the West
Movie • 1942
Jeff Gorman
Shut My Big Mouth
Movie • 1942
Henchman
Riders of the Northwest Mounted
Movie • 1943
Victor Renaud
Covered Wagon Raid
Movie • 1950
Henchman Grif
Across the Sierras
Movie • 1941
Mitch Carew
Roar of the Iron Horse
Movie • 1951
Campo - The Baron's Chief Gunman
Juvenile Court
Movie • 1938
Detective Capturing Dutch Adams (uncredited)
Blazing Six Shooters
Movie • 1940
Lash Bender
California Gold Rush
Movie • 1946
Chopin - the Harmonica Killer
Wagon Wheels Westward
Movie • 1945
Henchman Tuttle
Santa Fe Uprising
Movie • 1946
Henchman Luke Case
Cowboy in the Clouds
Movie • 1943
Roy Madison
The Roundup
Movie • 1941
Ed Crandall (as Richard Curtis)
Pioneers of the Frontier
Movie • 1940
Matt Brawley
Spook Town
Movie • 1944
Sam Benson
Song of Arizona
Movie • 1946
Henchman Bart
Wild Beauty
Movie • 1946
John Andrews
Wyoming
Movie • 1947
Ed Lassiter
Pardon My Gun
Movie • 1942
Clint Hayes
The Vanishing Westerner
Movie • 1950
Bartender
Navajo Trail Raiders
Movie • 1949
Henchman Brad
Billy the Kid
Movie • 1941
Kirby Claxton
I Can Hardly Wait
Movie • 1943
Patient (uncredited)
We Want Our Mummy
Movie • 1939
Jackson (uncredited)
Honky Tonk
Movie • 1941
Tough Man on Train (uncredited)
Mystery of the Riverboat
Movie • 1944
Craig Cassard [Ch. 1]
So Ends Our Night
Movie • 1941
Gestapo Stormtrooper (uncredited)
Murder in Greenwich Village
Movie • 1937
Campbell Security Guard
Life Begins with Love
Movie • 1937
Radical (uncredited)
Mutiny Ahead
Movie • 1935
Stevens (as Richard Dye)
I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
Movie • 1941
Jules
Colorado Trail
Movie • 1938
Henchman Slash Driscoll
Mandrake the Magician
Movie • 1940
Dorgan - Thug (Chs. 6-8)
Time Out for Trouble
Movie • 1938
Louie Derringer
City of Silent Men
Movie • 1942
Ed Muller
Batman
Movie • 1943
Agent Croft of Section 50
Riders of Black River
Movie • 1939
Blaize Carewe
King Kong
Movie • 1933
Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)
My Six Convicts
Movie • 1952
Guard
Up the River
Movie • 1930
New Inmate (uncredited)
Moonlight on the Range
Movie • 1937
Hank - Henchman
Taming of the West
Movie • 1939
Rawhide
The Main Event
Movie • 1938
Sawyer
Scared Stiff
Movie • 1945
Bus Driver (Uncredited)
The Outriders
Movie • 1950
Outrider at Dance (uncredited)
Cattle Raiders
Movie • 1938
The Thundering West
Movie • 1939
Wolf Munro
Law of the Plains
Movie • 1938
Jim Fletcher
The Frame-Up
Movie • 1937
Slim (uncredited)
The Tooth Will Out
Movie • 1951
Shemp's Last Patient (uncredited)
Two Yanks in Trinidad
Movie • 1942
Sea Captain
Motor Madness
Movie • 1937
South of Arizona
Movie • 1938
Ed Martin
West of Cheyenne
Movie • 1938
Link Murdock
Call of the Rockies
Movie • 1938
Matt Stark
One Man Justice
Movie • 1937
Henchman Hank Skinner