Jack Curtis (May 28, 1880 – March 16, 1956) was an American actor of the

silent era A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, wh ...

. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1915 and 1950. He was born in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

, and died in

Hollywood, California Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, ...

. Curtis performed on stage and in vaudeville before he began working in films in 1915. Curtis was married to actress Anna Chandler. Their daughter, Beatrice Antoinette Curtis, performed in vaudeville.

Partial filmography

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'' (1915) * '' Secret Love'' (1916) * ''

The Woman's Law ''The Woman's Law'' is a lost 1916 American silent drama film directed by Lawrence B. McGill and starring Florence Reed. It was distributed through Pathé Exchange.The Secret of the Swamp ''The Secret of the Swamp'' is a 1916 American Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Lynn Reynolds. The film stars George Hernandez, Myrtle Gonzalez, Fred Church (actor), Fred Church, Frank MacQuarrie, Val Paul and Count ...

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It Happened in Honolulu ''It Happened in Honolulu'' is a 1916 American silent film, silent comedy film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Myrtle Gonzalez, Val Paul and George Hernandez.Connelly p.367 Cast * Myrtle Gonzalez as Mabel Wyland * Val Paul as Larry Crane * ...

'' (1916) * '' The Iron Hand'' (1916) * ''

The Yaqui ''The Yaqui'' is a 1916 American silent Black and white Melodrama directed by Lloyd B. Carleton and starring Hobart Bosworth, Gretchen Lederer and Emory Johnson. The film depicts Yaqui Indians entrapped by nefarious elements into enslavemen ...

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Up or Down? ''Up or Down?'' is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring George Hernandez, Fritzi Ridgeway and John Gilbert. Cast * George Hernandez as Mike * Fritzi Ridgeway as Esther Hollister * John Gilbert as Allan ...

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Broadway Arizona ''Broadway Arizona'' is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Olive Thomas, George Chesebro and George Hernandez. Cast * Olive Thomas as Fritzi Carlyle * George Chesebro as John Keys * George Hernandez as U ...

'' (1917) * ''

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The Greater Law ''The Greater Law'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Myrtle Gonzalez, Gretchen Lederer and George Hernandez.Connelly p.100 Cast * Myrtle Gonzalez as Barbara Henderson * Gretchen Lederer as 'Seattle' Lou ...

'' (1917) * ''

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'' (1917) * '' God's Crucible'' (1917) * '' Little Red Decides'' (1918) * '' The Golden Fleece'' (1918) * ''

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'' (1918) * '' Treat 'Em Rough'' (1919) * ''

The Coming of the Law ''The Coming of the Law'' is a 1919 American silent Western film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Tom Mix, Agnes Vernon and George Nichols.Langman, Larry. ''A Guide to Silent Westerns''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992. p. 86. . . Cast ...

'' (1919) * '' The Pest'' (1919) * ''

The Speed Maniac ''The Speed Maniac'' is a lost 1919 silent action drama film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Tom Mix and Eva Novak. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation.The Hell Ship ''The Hell Ship'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring Madlaine Traverse, Alan Roscoe, Betty Bouton, Dick La Reno, and Jack Curtis. The film was released by Fox Film Corporation in February 1920. Cast ...

'' (1920) * ''

The Courage of Marge O'Doone ''The Courage of Marge O'Doone'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by David Smith and featuring Pauline Starke, Billie Bennett, Niles Welch and Boris Karloff (as Buck Tavish, a mountain man). It was written by Robert N. Bradbury, ba ...

'' (1920) * ''

The Big Punch ''The Big Punch'' is a 1921 American silent Western film directed by John Ford. No copy of the film is known to survive in either a public repository or private collection, so it is currently presumed to be a lost film. In France, the film was ...

'' (1921) * ''

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Beach of Dreams ''Beach of Dreams'' is a 1921 American silent adventure film directed by William Parke and starring Edith Storey, Noah Beery and Jack Curtis.St. Romain p.110 It is based on the 1919 novel '' The Beach of Dreams'' by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. ...

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The Servant in the House ''The Servant in the House'' is a lost 1921 American silent drama film directed by Jack Conway based on a 1908 Broadway play, ''The Servant in the House'' by Charles Rann Kennedy. Cast *Jean Hersholt as Manson, The Servant * Jack Curtis as Rob ...

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Flower of the North ''Flower of the North'' is a surviving 1921 American silent northwoods drama film directed by David Smith and produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It starred Henry B. Walthall and Pauline Starke and is based upon the no ...

'' (1921) * '' Steelheart'' (1921) * ''

The Sea Lion ''The Sea Lion'' is a 1921 American silent adventure film directed by Rowland V. Lee, and starring Hobart Bosworth, Bessie Love, and Emory Johnson. It was produced and distributed by Associated Producers Incorporated. The team who worked on th ...

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The Long Chance ''The Long Chance'' is a 1922 American silent Western film directed by Jack Conway and starring Henry B. Walthall, Marjorie Daw and Ralph Graves.Parish & Pitts p.76 Cast * Henry B. Walthall as Harley P. Hennage * Marjorie Daw as Kate Corba ...

'' (1922) * '' The Silent Vow'' (1922) * ''

The Strangers' Banquet ''The Strangers' Banquet'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Marshall Neilan and starring Hobart Bosworth, Claire Windsor, and Rockliffe Fellowes.Connelly p. 272 It is based on the 1919 novel of the same title by Brian Oswald Donn- ...

'' (1922) * '' Two Kinds of Women'' (1922) * ''

Canyon of the Fools ''Canyon of the Fools'' is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Val Paul and starring Harry Carey that was released by Film Booking Offices of America (F.B.O.). Plot As described in a film magazine, Robert McCarthy (Carey) beats his ...

'' (1923) * ''

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'' (1923) * ''

Masters of Men ''Masters of Men'' is a 1923 American silent war drama film directed by David Smith and starring Earle Williams, Alice Calhoun and Wanda Hawley. It takes place against the backdrop of the 1898 Spanish-American War. It is based on the 1901 novel ...

'' (1923) * ''

Dangerous Trails ''Dangerous Trails'' is a 1923 American silent film, silent Western (genre), Western film directed by Alan James and starring Irene Rich, Tully Marshall, and Noah Beery. It is a northern (genre), northern, featuring a member of the North-West Mo ...

'' (1923) * ''

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'' (1924) * '' Captain Blood'' (1924) * '' The Shadow on the Wall'' (1925) * '' The Wedding Song'' (1925) * '' Baree, Son of Kazan'' (1925) * ''

The Texas Streak ''The Texas Streak'' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Hoot Gibson. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. A copy survives in a private collector's collection.Hearts and Fists ''Hearts and Fists'' is a 1926 American silent film, silent drama film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring John Bowers (actor), John Bowers, Marguerite De La Motte, and Alan Hale Sr., Alan Hale.Munden p. 334 Plot As described in a film magaz ...

'' (1926) * ''

Jaws of Steel ''Jaws of Steel'' is a 1927 American silent family adventure film directed by Ray Enright and featuring dog star Rin Tin Tin and Jason Robards, Sr. Warner Bros. produced and distributed the film. Darryl Zanuck, under the alias Gregory Rogers, ...

'' (1927) * '' Through Thick and Thin'' (1927) * ''

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'' (1927) * ''

Scarlet Seas ''Scarlet Seas'' is a surviving 1929 American silent romantic adventure film produced by Richard A. Rowland and distributed by First National Pictures. The picture was directed by John Francis Dillon. It starred Richard Barthelmess, Betty Comps ...

'' (1929) * ''

The Show of Shows ''The Show of Shows'' is a 1929 American pre-Code musical revue film directed by John G. Adolfi and distributed by Warner Bros. The all-talking Vitaphone production cost $850,000 and was shot almost entirely in Technicolor. ''The Show of Sho ...

'' (1929) * ''

The Love Racket ''The Love Racket'' is a 1929 American early sound crime drama film produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by William A. Seiter and starred Dorothy Mackaill. It is based on a Broadway play, ''The Woman on the Jury ...

'' (1929) * '' Hold Everything'' (1930) * ''

Under a Texas Moon ''Under A Texas Moon'' is a 1930 American pre-Code musical Western film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on the novel ''Two-Gun Man'' (from 1929) which was written by Stewart Edward White. It was the second all-color, all-tal ...

'' (1930) * ''

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'' (1930) * ''

Range Feud ''The Range Feud'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code Western film directed by D. Ross Lederman for Columbia Pictures, that stars Buck Jones and John Wayne. Wayne biographer Ronald L. Davis referred to the film as the first in a collection of "chea ...

'' (1931) * ''

The Prescott Kid ''The Prescott Kid'' is a 1934 American Western film directed by David Selman, from an original screenplay by Ford Beebe, which stars Tim McCoy, Sheila Mannors, and Joseph Sauers. The picture was released on November, 1934. The screenplay was ...

'' (1934) * '' Westward Ho'' (1935) * ''

Lawless Range ''Lawless Range'' is a 1935 American Western film released by Republic Pictures, directed by Robert N. Bradbury and starring John Wayne. He appears as a "singing cowboy" in the film, with his singing voice dubbed by Glenn Strange, who later ...

'' (1935) * ''

King of the Pecos ''King of the Pecos'' is a 1936 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring John Wayne and Muriel Evans. Cast * John Wayne as John Clayborn * Muriel Evans as Belle Jackson * Cy Kendall as Alexander Stiles * Jack Clifford as He ...

'' (1936) * ''

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'' (1939) * ''

Trail Riders ''Trail Riders'' is a 1942 American Western film directed by Robert Emmett Tansey. The film is the eighteenth in Monogram Pictures' "Range Busters" series, and it stars John "Dusty" King as Dusty, "Davy" Sharpe and Max "Alibi" Terhune, wit ...

'' (1942) * ''

Song of the Sarong ''Song of the Sarong'' (1945) is a musical film starring Nancy Kelly and William Gargan. The film was written by Gene Lewis and directed by Harold Young. Plot There are valuable pearls worth millions of dollars being guarded by a formidable ...

'' (1945) * ''

3 Godfathers ''3 Godfathers'' is a 1948 American Western film directed by John Ford and filmed (although not set) primarily in Death Valley, California. The screenplay, written by Frank S. Nugent and Laurence Stallings, is based on the 1913 novelette '' Th ...

'' (1948)

References

External links

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Jack Curtis contracts, 1937
held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division,

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, is located in Manhattan, New York City, at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side, between the Metro ...

1880 births 1956 deaths American male film actors American male silent film actors Male actors from California 20th-century American male actors {{US-film-actor-1880s-stub