Dick Curtis(1902-1952)
- Actor
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.
He died in Hollywood of pneumonia in 1952.
