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