Richard Dye (May 11, 1902January 3, 1952), known professionally as Dick Curtis, was an American actor who made over 230 film and television appearances during his career.

Early years

Curtis was born in

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, the son of Frank Dye and Elizabeth Faulkner Dye.

Career

After having limited work in Hollywood, Curtis acted on stage in New York and toured in a variety of productions from 1926 to 1930. Standing at 6' 3", Curtis appeared in films stretching from

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. In most of his films, he played

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s 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. Curtis appeared in such

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films as ''

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'', '' You Nazty Spy!'', and ''

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''.

Pioneertown

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. The project was done in partnership with Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers.

Personal life

Curtis was married to silent-film actress Ruth Sullivan, who survived him.

Death

Curtis died at age 49 of

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brought on by

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. Curtis's final appearance with the Stooges was as Shemp Howard's dental patient in ''

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'', filmed in February 1951. He is buried at

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Selected filmography

* '' Tell It to the Marines'' (1926) - Marine in Barracks (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1930) - Butch * '' Up the River'' (1930) - New Inmate (uncredited) * '' The Silver Horde'' (1930) - Fight Spectator (uncredited) * '' Secret Service''(1931) - Prisoner Buying Goobers (uncredited) * '' Hell's House'' (1932) - Cop on the Beat (uncredited) * '' Girl Crazy'' (1932) - Cowboy Giving Directions (uncredited) * '' The Famous Ferguson Case'' (1932) - O'Toole (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1933) - Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited) * '' King Kelly of the U.S.A.'' (1934) - Otto - Palace Guard (uncredited) * '' A Successful Failure'' (1934) - Man in Rally Crowd (uncredited) * '' The Silver Streak'' (1934) - Boulder Dam Foreman (uncredited) * ''

Romance in Manhattan ''Romance in Manhattan'' is a 1935 American comedy/romance film directed by Stephen Roberts, starring Francis Lederer and Ginger Rogers, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Plot Karel Novak (Lederer), an incredibly naive Czech immigrant, ar ...

'' (1935) - Man at East River (uncredited) * '' Clive of India'' (1935) - Hoodlum on Dock (uncredited) * '' Northern Frontier'' (1935) - Pete - Henchman (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1935) - Stevens * '' Wilderness Mail'' (1935) - Jacques - Henchman * '' The Miracle Rider'' (1935, Serial) - Copelee (uncredited) * '' The Nitwits'' (1935) - Cop on Stakeout (uncredited) * '' Code of the Mounted'' (1935) - Snakey - Henchman * '' The Arizonian'' (1935) - Henchman (uncredited) * '' Trails of the Wild'' (1935) - Henchman Roper * '' Western Frontier'' (1935) - Pioneer Settler (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1935) - Villager at Pit Rim (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1935) - Master of Ceremonies (uncredited) * '' Western Courage'' (1935) - Henchman Bat (uncredited) * '' Racing Luck'' (1935) - 'Dynamite' * ''Just My Luck'' (1935) - Henchman (uncredited) * '' Federal Agent'' (1936) - Curbside Cabbie (uncredited) * '' Crashing Through Danger'' (1936) - Foreman * '' Burning Gold'' (1936) - Swede * '' Go-Get-'Em, Haines'' (1936) - Mike - Cab Driver (uncredited) * '' Wildcat Trooper'' (1936) - Henri (uncredited) * '' The Lion's Den'' (1936) - Slim Burtis - Henchman * '' The Crooked Trail'' (1936) - Kirk - Miner (uncredited) * '' Ghost Patrol'' (1936) - Henchman Charlie * '' The Traitor'' (1936) - Henchman Morgan * '' Phantom Patrol'' (1936) - Henchman Josef * ''

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'' (1936) - Vince - Frontiersman (uncredited) * '' Wild Horse Round-Up'' (1936) - Bill * '' Valley of Terror'' (1937) - Buck - Henchman * '' The Singing Buckaroo'' (1937) - Odie - Henchman * '' Blake of Scotland Yard'' (1937) - Nicky - Henchman * '' The Gambling Terror'' (1937) - Henchman Dick * ''Headline Crasher'' (1937) - Joe (uncredited) * '' Trail of Vengeance'' (1937) - Cartwright - Henchman * '' Motor Madness'' (1937) - Sailor (uncredited) * ''

Two Gun Law ''Two Gun Law'' is a 1937 American Western film directed by Leon Barsha, starring Charles Starrett and Peggy Stratford. Cast * Charles Starrett as Bob Larson * Peggy Stratford as Mary Hammond * Hank Bell as Cookie * Edward J. Le Saint as Ben ...

'' (1937) - Len Edwards * '' Bar-Z Bad Men'' (1937) - Henchman Brent * '' The Frame-Up'' (1937) - Slim (uncredited) * '' Guns in the Dark'' (1937) - Brace Stevens * '' A Lawman Is Born'' (1937) - Lefty Drogan * '' One Man Justice'' (1937) - Henchman Hank Skinner * ''

Boothill Brigade ''Boothill Brigade'' is a 1937 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and written by George H. Plympton. The film stars Johnny Mack Brown, Claire Rochelle, Dick Curtis, Horace Murphy, Frank LaRue and Ed Cassidy. The film was release ...

'' (1937) - Bull Berke * '' The Game That Kills'' (1937) - Whitey * '' Moonlight on the Range'' (1937) - Hank - Henchman * '' Life Begins with Love'' (1937) - Radical (uncredited) * '' Counsel for Crime'' (1937) - Hood (uncredited) * '' Murder in Greenwich Village'' (1937) - Campbell Security Guard (uncredited) * '' The Old Wyoming Trail'' (1937) - Ed Slade * '' Outlaws of the Prairie'' (1937) - Dragg * '' Paid to Dance'' (1937) - Mike Givens * ''

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'' (1937) - Carlos * '' Little Miss Roughneck'' (1938) - (uncredited) * '' Penitentiary'' (1938) - Tex (uncredited) * '' Cattle Raiders'' (1938) - Ed Munro * '' Who Killed Gail Preston?'' (1938) - Henchman Mike * ''Women in Prison'' (1938) - Mac * '' Rawhide'' (1938) - Butch - Saunders Henchman * '' Call of the Rockies'' (1938) - Matt Stark * '' Law of the Plains'' (1938) - Jim Fletcher * '' The Lone Wolf in Paris'' (1938) - Palace Vault Guard (uncredited) * '' Reformatory'' (1938) - Guard (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1938) - Sawyer * '' Squadron of Honor'' (1938) - Craig * '' West of Cheyenne'' (1938) - Link Murdock * '' City Streets'' (1938) - Madden - County Welfare Officer (uncredited) * '' South of Arizona'' (1938) - Ed Martin * '' You Can't Take It with You'' (1938) - Strongarm Man (uncredited) * '' The Colorado Trail'' (1938) - Henchman Slash Driscoll * '' Juvenile Court'' (1938) - Detective Capturing Dutch Adams (uncredited) * '' West of the Santa Fe'' (1938) - Matt Taylor * '' The Spider's Web'' (1938, Serial) - Malloy (uncredited) * '' The Lady Objects'' (1938) - Jail Guard (uncredited) * '' Adventure in Sahara'' (1938) - Karnoldi * '' Blondie'' (1938) - Daily Gazette Reporter (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1938) - Ed Barker * '' Flat Foot Stooges'' (1938, Short) - Mr. Reardon * '' The Little Adventuress'' (1938) - Race Starter (uncredited) * '' Smashing the Spy Ring'' (1938) - Williams (uncredited) * '' Homicide Bureau'' (1939) - Radio Broadcaster (voice, uncredited) * '' The Thundering West'' (1939) - Wolf Munro * '' North of Shanghai'' (1939) - Creighton * '' The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt'' (1939) - Heavy (uncredited) * '' Flying G-Men'' (1939, Serial) - Henchman Korman * ''

My Son Is a Criminal ''My Son Is a Criminal'' is a 1939 American crime film directed by Charles C. Coleman (as C.C. Coleman Jr.) and starring Alan Baxter, Julie Bishop, Gordon Oliver and Willard Robertson. Plot Former police chief Tim Halloran Sr. (Willard Robertso ...

'' (1939) - Gangster (uncredited) * '' We Want Our Mummy'' (1939, Short) - Jackson (uncredited) * '' Let Us Live'' (1939) - Convict on Death Row (uncredited) * '' Romance of the Redwoods'' (1939) - Gas Station Attendant (uncredited) * '' Blind Alley'' (1939) - Trooper with Joe (uncredited) * '' Spoilers of the Range'' (1939) - Lobo Savage * '' Outside These Walls'' (1939) - Flint * '' Mandrake the Magician'' (1939, Serial) - Dorgan - Henchman (Chs. 6–8) * ''

'' (1939, Short) - Maxey * '' Missing Daughters'' (1939) - Henchman (uncredited) * '' Western Caravans'' (1939) - Mort Kohler * '' Overland with Kit Carson'' (1939, Serial) - Drake - Henchman * '' Behind Prison Gates'' (1939) - Capt. Simmons * ''

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'' (1939) - Jury Foreman Clifford Kearney * '' Riders of Black River'' (1939) - Blaize Carewe * '' Outpost of the Mounties'' (1939) - Wade Beaumont * ''

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'' (1939) - Convict (uncredited) * '' Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise'' (1939, Short) - Clipper - Swindler in Back Seat (uncredited) * '' The Taming of the West'' (1939) - Rawhide * '' Scandal Sheet'' (1939) - Guard * ''

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'' (1939) - Joe (uncredited) * '' The Stranger from Texas'' (1939) - Bat Stringer * '' Two-Fisted Rangers'' (1939) - Henchman Dirk Hogan * ''

My Son Is Guilty ''My Son Is Guilty'' is a 1939 American action adventure crime film directed by Charles Barton and produced by Jack Fier. It stars Bruce Cabot, Jacqueline Wells, Harry Carey and Wynne Gibson Winifred Elaine "Wynne" Gibson (July 3, 1898 – Ma ...

'' (1939) - Monk * '' You Nazty Spy!'' (1940, Short) - Mr. Ohnay (uncredited) * '' Pioneers of the Frontier'' (1940) - Matt Brawley * '' Blondie on a Budget'' (1940) - Tony - Mechanic (uncredited) * '' Bullets for Rustlers'' (1940) - Strang * '' Rockin' Thru the Rockies'' (1940, Short) - Indian Chief (uncredited) * '' Blazing Six Shooters'' (1940) - Lash Bender * '' Terry and the Pirates'' (1940, Serial) - Master Fang * '' Men Without Souls'' (1940) - Duke * '' Texas Stagecoach'' (1940) - Shoshone Larsen * '' Boom Town'' (1940) - Hiring Boss (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1940) - Corky - Henchman (uncredited) * '' Ragtime Cowboy Joe'' (1940) - Bo Gilman * '' Three Men from Texas'' (1940) - Gardner - Henchman * '' The Son of Monte Cristo'' (1940) - Guard (uncredited) * '' So Ends Our Night'' (1941) - Gestapo Stormtrooper (uncredited) * '' Across the Sierras'' (1941) - Mitch Carew * '' The Round Up'' (1941) - Ed Crandall * ''

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'' (1941) - Kirby Claxton * '' I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island'' (1941) - Jules * '' Mystery Ship'' (1941) - Van Brock * '' Stick to Your Guns'' (1941) - Nevada Teale * '' Honky Tonk'' (1941) - Tough Man on Train (uncredited) * '' Sea Raiders'' (1941, Serial) - Mate on the 'Astoria'

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(uncredited) * '' Arizona Cyclone'' (1941) - Quirt Crenshaw * ''

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'' (1941) - Policeman (uncredited) * '' Shut My Big Mouth'' (1942) - Henchman (uncredited) * '' Two Yanks in Trinidad'' (1942) - Sea Captain * '' Men of San Quentin'' (1942) - Butch Mason * '' Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die'' (1942) - Frank McLowery * ''

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'' (1942) - Jim Swade * '' Vengeance of the West'' (1942) - Jeff Gorman * '' City of Silent Men'' (1942) - Frank Muller * '' Pardon My Gun'' (1942) - Clint Hayes (uncredited) * '' You Can't Beat the Law'' (1943) - Prison Guard (uncredited) * '' Riders of the Northwest Mounted'' (1943) - Victor Renaud (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1943, Serial) - Agent Croft of Section 50

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(uncredited) * '' Higher Than a Kite'' (1943, Short) - Gen. Bommel (uncredited) * '' Salute to the Marines'' (1943) - Cpl. Mosley * '' The Cross of Lorraine'' (1943) - Nazi Guard in Village (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1943) - Cannery Foreman (uncredited) * '' Cowboy in the Clouds'' (1943) - Roy Madison * ''

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'' (1943, Serial) - Tartar Chieftain (uncredited) * '' Crash Goes the Hash'' (1944, Short) - Prince Shaam of Ubeedarn * '' Lady in the Death House'' (1944) - Willis Millen * ''

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'' (1944) - Sergeant (uncredited) * ''

Gambler's Choice ''Gambler's Choice'' is a 1944 film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Chester Morris and Nancy Kelly. Plot In 1897, three children, Ross Hadley, Mike McGlennon and Mary Rogers, are brought before a judge for stealing a man's wallet. McGle ...

'' (1944) - Mr. Hadley (uncredited) * '' The Black Parachute'' (1944) - German Lieutenant (uncredited) * '' Spook Town'' (1944) - Sam Benson * '' Waterfront'' (1944) - Drunken Sailor (uncredited) * '' Mystery of the River Boat'' (1944, Serial) - Craig Cassard * '' High Powered'' (1945) - Worker (uncredited) * '' The Master Key'' (1945, Serial) - Reicher (uncredited) * '' The Great John L.'' (1945) - Waldo (uncredited) * '' Blonde from Brooklyn'' (1945) - Soldier (uncredited) * '' Scared Stiff'' (1945) - Bus Driver (uncredited) * '' Wagon Wheels Westward'' (1945) - Henchman Tuttle * '' Scarlet Street'' (1945) - Detective (uncredited) * '' The Bandit of Sherwood Forest'' (1946) - Castle Gate Guard (uncredited) * '' Abilene Town'' (1946) - 'Cap' Ryker * '' The Scarlet Horseman'' (1946, Serial) - Jed (Ch 2) (uncredited) * '' California Gold Rush'' (1946) - Chopin - the Harmonica Killer * '' Song of Arizona'' (1946) - Henchman Bart * '' Lost City of the Jungle'' (1946) - Johnson * ''

'' (1946, Short) - Badlands Blackie * '' Traffic in Crime'' (1946) - Jake Schultz * ''

Wild Beauty ''Wild Beauty'' is a 1946 American action film directed by Wallace Fox and written by Adele Buffington. The film stars Don Porter, Lois Collier, Jacqueline deWit, Robert Wilcox, George Cleveland, Dick Curtis and Robert 'Buzz' Henry. Th ...

'' (1946) - John Andrews * '' Lawless Breed'' (1946) - Bartley Mellon and Captain Isaac Mellon * ''

Santa Fe Uprising ''Santa Fe Uprising'' is a 1946 American Western film in the Red Ryder film series directed by R. G. Springsteen, written by Earle Snell, and starring Allan Lane, Robert Blake, Martha Wentworth, Barton MacLane, Jack La Rue and Tom London. It wa ...

'' (1946) - Henchman Luke Case * '' Renegade Girl'' (1946) - Joe Barnes * ''

'' (1947) - Ed Lassiter * ''

Navajo Trail Raiders ''Navajo Trail Raiders'' is a 1949 American Western film directed by R. G. Springsteen and written by M. Coates Webster. The film stars Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, Robert Emmett Keane, Barbara Bestar, Harold Landon and Dick Curtis. The film was re ...

'' (1949) - Henchman Brad * ''

The Outriders ''The Outriders'' is a 1950 American Western film directed by Roy Rowland and starring Joel McCrea. Plot With the Civil War nearing an end, rebel soldiers Will Owen, Jesse Wallace, and Clint Priest escape from a Union stockade in Missouri. ...

'' (1950) - Outrider at Dance (uncredited) * '' Cargo to Capetown'' (1950) - Charlie - Sailor in Bar (uncredited) * '' Wabash Avenue'' (1950) - Jim - Poker Player (uncredited) * '' The Vanishing Westerner'' (1950) - Bartender * '' Rock Island Trail'' (1950) - Barton - Railroad Agitator (uncredited) * '' The Gunfighter'' (1950) - Townsman at Funeral (uncredited) * ''

Covered Wagon Raid ''Covered Wagon Raid'' is a 1950 American Western film directed by R. G. Springsteen and written by M. Coates Webster. The film stars Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, Alex Gerry, Lyn Thomas, Byron Barr and Dick Curtis. The film was released on June 30, ...

'' (1950) - Henchman Grif * '' The Sun Sets at Dawn'' (1950) - Guard (uncredited) * '' The Jackpot'' (1950) - Moving Man (uncredited) * '' Three Arabian Nuts'' (1951, Short) - Hassan * '' Inside Straight'' (1951) - Marshal (uncredited) * '' Rawhide'' (1951) - Hawley (uncredited) * '' Whirlwind'' (1951) - Lon Kramer * ''

Don't Throw That Knife ''Don't Throw That Knife'' is a 1951 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 131st entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starr ...

'' (1951, Short) - Mr. Wycoff * '' Roar of the Iron Horse - Rail-Blazer of the Apache Trail'' (1951) - Campo - The Baron's Chief Gunman * '' Lorna Doone'' (1951) - Garth (uncredited) * '' The Texas Rangers'' (1951) - Prison Guard (uncredited) * '' Government Agents vs. Phantom Legion'' (1951) - Regan * '' The Red Badge of Courage'' (1951) - Veteran (uncredited) * ''

'' (1951, Short) - Shemp's Last Patient (uncredited) * '' Chicago Calling'' (1951) - Road Gang Foreman (uncredited) * '' Rose of Cimarron'' (1952) - Clem Dawley * '' My Six Convicts'' (1952) - Guard (uncredited) * '' Bronco Buster'' (1952) - Bartender (uncredited) (final film role)

References

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External links

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