My Uncle's filmography

I was looking at tcm.com where you can by copies of many movies out of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s and I suddenly thought of all the movies I had heard my uncle talk about that he had been in. The only one I had seen up until recently was "The Ten Commandments" with Charlton Heston. But recently I had DVRed: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and I saw him playing a General in this classic movie from the 1950s. He has been gone a long time now (19970 so I thought I could show you some of his films. I'm not sure which ones (other than the Ten Commandments and Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers) are still available on DVD.

Film	Role	Year
Warning Shot LAPD detective Sgt. Tom Valens (David Janssen) is a ten-year veteran of the force who has had more than his share of hard...		1967
Green Acres: Sprained Ankle Country Style Because Hooterville is a "fringe" reception area (one of the fringiest), Oliver (Eddie Albert) must install a roof antenna if...		1966
Petticoat Junction: Bedloe's Successor Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) once again shows up at the Shady Rest, a battered and tattered shell of his former self. Claiming...		1965
The Beverly Hillbillies: The Private Eye Now aspiring to be a hard-boiled private detective, Jethro opens an office in Drysdale's bank building. He then installs all...		1965
Perry Mason: The Case of the Ancient Romeo 'Tis murder most foul when actor Franz Lachman (Jeff Morrow), starring in a stage production of Shakespeare's "Romeo and...		1962
Night Passage Night Passage is so similar in spirit to the successful collaborations between star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann...		1957
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers Anyone who's seen the 1996 science-fiction lampoon Mars Attacks may have trouble watching Earth vs. the Flying Saucers with a...	Maj. Huglin	1956
The Ten Commandments Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...		1956
Seventh Cavalry Though the film's title may suggest otherwise, Seventh Cavalry takes place after Custer's Last Stand. Randolph Scott stars...		1956
It Came from Beneath the Sea It Came From Beneath the Sea was the first of several fruitful collaborations between producer Charles H. Schneer and...	John Carter	1955
Flame of the Islands Yvonne de Carlo is at her most smokily exotic in the Republic "special" Flame of the Islands. Filmed on location in the...		1955
All That Heaven Allows One of director Douglas Sirk's best and most successful romantic soapers of the 1950s, All That Heaven Allows is predicated...		1955
Phffft! After several years of domestic squabbles, the marriage of Nina and Robert Tracy (Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon) goes "phffft"!...		1954
Stampede Stampede is a choice example of the Lesley Selander B-plus westerns of the late 1940s/early 1950s. Rod Cameron and...	Stanton	1949
The Amazing Mr. X Also known as The Amazing Mr. X, The Spiritualist stars Turhan Bey as the title character, a mysterious mystic named Alexis....	Paul Faber	1948
Night Song In this melodrama, a brilliant pianist is struck blind in an accident and stops working on his equally brilliant concerto. A...		1947
I Love Trouble Private detective Franchot Tone is hired by a prominent politician (Tom Powers) to run a background check on the politician's...		1947
Dangerous Years In this melodrama, a young juvenile delinquent convinces other teens to join his gang. The gang raids a warehouse and there...		1947
White Tie and Tails In this comedy drama, a butler and a crap-shooting chauffeur find themselves having the run of their employer's mansion...	Nate Romano	1946
The Fuller Brush Man MGM knew it had a valuable property in Red Skelton, but the studio never really knew how to handle his unique talents --...		1946
Courage of Lassie This is the one where Lassie plays a war veteran with amnesia. Actually Lassie isn't even Lassie, but a male collie named...		1946
Bad Bascomb Bad Bascomb is an expensive MGM western, tailor-made for the blubbery talents of Wallace Beery. Beery plays the badman of the...		1946
Gallant Bess According to the MGM publicity department, Gallant Bess was based on a true story, as told by Naval Reserve officer Marvin...	Lt. Bridgeman	1946
Son of Lassie Son of Lassie is about a courageous collie named Laddie, played by a dog named "Pal". A sequel to Lassie Come Home, the film...		1945
Spellbound As Alfred Hitchcock's classic psychothriller opens, the staff of a posh mental asylum eagerly awaits the arrival of the new...	Harry	1945
They Were Expendable John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines,...		1945
Without Love In their third film together, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn created one of the box-office sensations of 1945, a...		1945
This Man's Navy Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his...		1945
Thrill of a Romance This aquatic musical is set at a mountain resort in the beautiful Sierra Nevadas where a heroic Army Air Corpsman has come...		1945
A Letter for Evie The 1922 silent comedy Don't Write Letters was updated to the war years and remade as A Letter for Evie. Marsha Hunt is the...		1945
National Velvet Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to...		1944
Meet Me in St. Louis Sally Benson's short stories about the turn-of-the-century Smith family of St. Louis were tackled by a battalion of MGM...		1944
See Here, Private Hargrove Newspaper reporter Marion Hargrove's best-selling novel was adapted to the screen by MGM as a vehicle for Robert Walker. The...		1944
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Billed third, Spencer Tracy plays Lt. Col. James P. Doolittle, who led the bombing raid over Tokyo. Most of the footage...		1944
Law of the North West Briefly switching gears in 1942 and 1943, western star Charles Starrett made a handful of "northerns" in which he played a...		1943
Bataan In 1942, Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer and the United States Office of War Information collaborated on Bataan with the official goal...		1943
The Cross of Lorraine The time is World War II. A group of disillusioned French soldiers are approached by Nazi troops and promised safe passage to...		1943
Swing Shift Maisie In her seventh outing as irrepressible vaudeville entertainer Maisie Revere, Ann Sothern aided the war effort by working the...		1943
Salute to the Marines In this wartime comedy drama an ultra-macho but aging Marine sergeant does all he can to keep his men intimidated and towing...		1943
Invisible Agent Universal's "Invisible Man" series does its bit for the war effort in this slyly tongue-in-cheek action melodrama. Jon Hall...		1942
Riders for Justice Riders for Justice is the TV title of the Republic "Three Mesquiteers" western Westward Ho (the change was made to avoid...		1942
Westward Ho The all-purpose title Westward Ho was applied in 1942 to this "Three Mesquiteers" western. This time, the Mesquiteers are...	Rick West	1942
Joan of Ozark The sure-fire combination of Judy Canova and Joe E. Brown paid off in big laughs and excellent box-office returns in the...		1942
Tombstone This Western is set in the Arizona town and centers on former gunslinger Wyatt Earp who has been recently deputized and is...		1942
Code of the Outlaws The Three Mesquiteers are back in the saddle in Republic's Code of the Outlaws. In this outing, the Mesquiteers are played by...		1942
In Old California With its slight resemblance to Destry Rides Again (1939) -- probably not entirely coincidental -- this rousing Western from...		1942
The Son of Davy Crockett Bill Elliot took time out from his "Wild Bill Hickok" westerns series to essay the title role in Son of Davy Crockett. During...		1941
Thunder over the Prairie Thunder Over the Prairie was the second of Charles Starrett's "Dr. Steve Monroe" westerns. The unorthodox plot is set in...		1941
Secret Evidence In this crime drama, a naive young woman receives an unpleasant wake-up call when she learns that her seemingly wonderful...	Murphy	1941
Criminals Within Talented B-picture director Joseph H. Lewis wasn't yet in the "auteur" class when he helmed the PRC quickie Criminals Within....	Lieutenant Harmon	1941
Hands Across the Rockies As Wild Bill Hickok and sidekick Cannonball stalk a murderer, they encounter the killer's fiancee. ~ Rovi...		1941
The Royal Mounted Patrol Western star Charles Starrett makes one of his periodic forays into the Great White North in Columbia's Royal Mounted Patrol....	Frenchy Duvalle	1941
Take Me Back to Oklahoma Featuring even more musical numbers than usual, this Tex Ritter Western from Monogram marked the feature film debut of the...		1940
Northwest Mounted Police Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as...		1940
Texas Rangers Ride Again Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young... end quote from: Donald Curtis Filmography - Fandango.com Search the Western Clippings Site An Interview With…         - Archives Will "Sugarfoot" Hutchins     - Archives Do You Remember?     - Archives Comic Book Cowboys     - Archives Westerns of...     - Archives Heavies and Characters       - DeForest Kelley       - George Macready       - Terry Frost       - John Doucette       - Riley Hill       - James Seay       - Richard Devon       - Harry Lauter       - James Griffith       - Myron Healey       - J. Farrell MacDonald       - Jean Willes       - Hank Patterson       - L. Q. 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Born Curtis Donald Rudolf February 27, 1915, in Cheney, WA (near Eugene), Curtis won a scholarship then obtained a B.S. and M.A. in dramatic production from the School of Speech at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He worked as an associate professor of dramatic Art at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, then won a Rockefeller Fellowship and used it to study acting. His stage experience includes a role on Broadway in ‘49’s “Goodbye My Fancy”. West Coast productions of “Life with Father”, “Outward Bound”, “The Male Animal” and numerous others also fill his resume. After making his screen debut uncredited as an ambulance intern in “Emergency Squad” (‘40 Paramount), which starred Bill Henry, Curtis’ next role as Ronal, one of Prince Barin’s trusted officers, in Universal’s third (and final) Flash Gordon serial, “Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe” (‘40), established him further. A small role as a thug in another Universal serial, “Junior G-Men”, followed the same year. Roles in a dozen B-westerns in the ‘40s opposite Tex Ritter, Bill Elliott, Charles Starrett, Russell Hayden and the 3 Mesquiteers, led to a contract at prestigious MGM from ‘43-‘46. Freelancing again in the late ‘40s and ‘50s, Curtis appeared in a few more westerns (“Stampede” with Rod Cameron, “7th Cavalry” with Randolph Scott) and made a sci-fi thriller that he called his favorite, “It Came From Beneath the Sea” (‘55), because “it was the only time I got the girl at the end of the picture.” In ‘53 Curtis changed his life, “I went to Santa Barbara and was ordained a minister in the Church of Religious Science. I made a few more pictures and TV episodes (“Stories of the Century”, “Annie Oakley”, “Frontier Doctor”) then retired after ‘Night Passage’ (‘57) with James Stewart. I did go back into acting briefly in the ‘60s and had a role with David Janssen in ‘Warning Shot’ (‘67).” For well over 20 years Curtis and his wife, Dorothy, lived in Dallas, TX, where they were known not for his film career, but as Reverend Donald Curtis and Reverend Dorothy Curtis, pastors of Unity Church on Forest Lane. He established and recorded the five-times-per-week program, “Five Minutes That Will Change Your Life” on WRR radio. The program was also in syndication. Curtis was the author of 30 books on self improvement, metaphysics and New Thought. He traveled throughout the world giving classes and seminars on meditation and higher dimensions of human potential. He appeared on “Oprah Winfrey” in ‘87 discussing true meaning of the new age. Curtis was honored at the Memphis Film Festival in ‘89 and a few years later retired to Desert Hot Springs, CA, where, at 82, he died on May 22, 1997, of unknown causes.  end quote from: http://www.westernclippings.com/heavies/donaldcurtis_charactersheavies.shtml Donald Curtis - IMDb Login |   Help Movies TV News Showtimes Community IMDbPro Apps Your Watchlist ad feedback SEE RANK Donald Curtis (1915–1997) Actor Trivia: He was a noted author and lecturer. In addition to his major books, Helping Heaven Happen, Your thoughts can change your live, Human problems and how to solve them, Daily power for youthful living, The golden bridge: and New age understanding, he authored many inspirational booklets and wrote numerous articles which appeared regularly over the years in Science of Mind... See more trivia » Born: Curtis Rudolf February 27, 1915 in Cheney, Washington, USA Died: May 22, 1997 (age 82) in Desert Hot Springs, California, USA 13 videos | 3 news articles » Share this page: Quick Links: Related News Top 10: Studio Ghibli films 7 January 2012 10:39 PM, PST | Blogomatic3000 10 movie politicians who would be even worse than the real-life candidates 12 April 2010 9:08 AM, PDT | Den of Geek See all 3 related articles » Watch on TV Spellbound Sun. Sept. 1 1:30 PM on TCM IMDbTV | All TV listings » Create a list  » Related Lists Recuring actors in Harryhousen films a list of 3 people by evanairwolf created 2 months ago Actors & Actresses a list of 534 people by ilcoronado created 20 May 2012 See all related lists » Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage Find out more at IMDbPro » Connect with IMDb Take The Quiz! Test your knowledge of Donald Curtis. Known For Spellbound (1945) The Ten Commandments (1956) Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)  Show all  |  Show by: Edit Filmography Jump to: Actor| Archive Footage Hide Actor (116 titles) 1967 The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (TV series) Billionaire – The Phi Beta Killer Affair(1967) … Billionaire 1967 Warning Shot (TV movie) Dr. James B. Ruston (uncredited) 1966 Green Acres (TV series) Curly Robins – Sprained Ankle, Country Style(1966) … Curly Robins 1965 Petticoat Junction (TV series) Wilbur Goodfellow – Bedloe's Successor(1965) … Wilbur Goodfellow 1965 Get Smart (TV series) Army General – Washington 4, Indians 3(1965) … Army General 1965 The Beverly Hillbillies (TV series) Vincent Baker – The Private Eye(1965) … Vincent Baker 1962 Perry Mason (TV series) Amos Martin – The Case of the Ancient Romeo(1962) … Amos Martin 1961 The Best of the Post (TV series) Dr. Pete Dennis – No Visitors(1961) … Dr. Pete Dennis 1959 Frontier Doctor (TV series) Stacey – The Homesteaders(1959) … Stacey 1957 Date with the Angels (TV series) Ross – Everybody's Baby(1957) … Ross 1957 Night Passage Jubilee 1956-1957 Annie Oakley (TV series) Lee Tobey / Rush Harper – Desperate Men(1957) … Rush Harper – Western Privateer(1956) … Lee Tobey 1955-1956 Science Fiction Theatre (TV series) Dr. Fred Garner / Dr. Roger Kiley / Hugh Warner / … – The Miracle Hour(1956) … Dr. Roger Kiley – Facsimile(1956) … Hugh Warner – The Voice(1956) … Roger Brown – The Strange Dr. Lorenz(1955) … Dr. Fred Garner 1956 7th Cavalry Lt. Bob Fitch 1956 Soldiers of Fortune (TV series) Paul – The Danger Sisters(1956) … Paul 1956 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV series) Jensen – A Quiet Day in Dodge City(1956) … Jensen 1956 The Ten Commandments Mered 1956 Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (TV series) Barry Clarke – Assignment Champ(1956) … Barry Clarke 1956 The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV series) Philip Wendell – The Nevada Nightingale(1956) … Philip Wendell 1956 Earth vs. the Flying Saucers Maj. Huglin 1956 Schlitz Playhouse (TV series) Steve – Dara(1956) … Steve 1956 Crossroads (TV series) Cole Brennan – The Judge(1956) … Cole Brennan 1955-1956 The Ford Television Theatre (TV series) Andy Petticord / Nick Drew – The Silent Strangers(1956) … Andy Petticord – Bet the Queen(1955) … Nick Drew 1956 Flame of the Islands Johnny 1954-1955 The Loretta Young Show (TV series) Hank / Kimball – Reunion(1955) … Kimball – Secret Answer(1954) … Hank 1955 All That Heaven Allows Howard Hoffer 1955 The Man Behind the Badge (TV series) Brant – The Case of the Guardian Angel(1955) … Brant 1955 It Came from Beneath the Sea Dr. John Carter 1954-1955 The Public Defender (TV series) Jack Tanney – The Director(1955) … Jack Tanney – Lisa(1954) 1955 Studio 57 (TV series) Everett Coyle – The Will to Survive(1955) … Everett Coyle 1955 City Detective (TV series) Davis – Police, Watch My House(1955) … Davis 1955 Passport to Danger (TV series) Fitzpatrick – Rome(1955) … Fitzpatrick 1954 The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (TV series) – This Man for Hire(1954) 1954 Phffft Rick Vidal 1954 Father Knows Best (TV series) Eddie Gilbert – Grandpa Jim's Rejuvenation(1954) … Eddie Gilbert 1954 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (TV series) Leo Gill – George Invites Critics to Watch First Show of Season(1954) … Leo Gill (as Don Curtis) 1954 The Shanghai Story Leader (uncredited) 1954 Stories of the Century (TV series) John B. Ringgold aka Johnny Ringo – Johnny Ringo(1954) … John B. Ringgold aka Johnny Ringo 1952 The Cisco Kid (TV series) Man – Canyon City Kid(1952) … Man (uncredited) 1952 Lux Video Theatre (TV series) Walter – Marriage Is the Beginning(1952) … Walter 1950-1952 Treasury Men in Action (TV series) – The Case of the Frightened Foreman(1952) – The Case of the Hundred-Headed Hydra(1950) 1951 The Web (TV series) – The Contradictory Case(1951) 1950-1951 Kraft Theatre (TV series) – The Tale of the Wolf(1951) – Sixteen(1950) 1951 Starlight Theatre (TV series) – Lunch at Disalvo's(1951) 1951 The Prudential Family Playhouse (TV series) Bill Blake – Skylark(1951) … Bill Blake – Burlesque(1951) 1951 Nash Airflyte Theatre (TV series) – The Lipstick(1951) 1951 The Dagmar Story (TV movie) Vance 1950 The Big Story (TV series) Charles Russell – Charles Russell, Reporter(1950) … Charles Russell 1950 Two Flags West (uncredited) 1950 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV series) Joe Ferguson – The Awful Truth(1950) – The Male Animal(1950) … Joe Ferguson 1950 Detective's Wife (TV series) Adam Conway 1950 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV series) – Only This Night(1950) 1950 The Clock (TV series) – I Keep Forgetting(1950) 1950 Studio One in Hollywood (TV series) – The Room Upstairs(1950) – The Survivors(1950) 1950 The Silver Theatre (TV series) Mr. Beasley – The Late Mr. Beasley(1950) … Mr. Beasley 1949 The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (TV series) – Hart to Heart(1949) 1949 Stampede Stanton 1948 The Amazing Mr. X Paul Faber 1948 The Fuller Brush Man Gregory Cruckston 1948 I Love Trouble Martin 1947 Dangerous Years Jeff Carter 1947 Night Song George 1946 Gallant Bess Lt. Bridgeman 1946 The Swindlers Nate Romero 1946 Courage of Lassie Charlie 1946 Bad Bascomb John Fulton 1946 A Letter for Evie Capt. Budlowe 1945 They Were Expendable Lt. 'Shorty' long/Radio Voice 1945 Spellbound Harry 1945 Thrill of a Romance K.O. Karny 1945 Son of Lassie Sergeant Eddie Brown 1945 Without Love Prof. Ellis (uncredited) 1945 Little White Lie (short) Paul 1945 This Man's Navy Operations Officer 1944 National Velvet American (uncredited) 1944 Meet Me in St. Louis Dr. Girard (uncredited) 1944 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Lieut. Randall 1944 Return from Nowhere (short) Jack Stuart (uncredited) 1944 Patrolling the Ether (short) Bill Beck (uncredited) 1944 See Here, Private Hargrove Sgt. Heldon 1943 Lost Angel Mounted Policeman (uncredited) 1943 The Cross of Lorraine Marcel 1943 Swing Fever Reporter (uncredited) 1943 Swing Shift Maisie Joe Peterson 1943 Salute to the Marines Randall James 1943 Bataan Lieutenant 1943 Law of the Northwest Frank Mason (as Don Curtis) 1942 A Tornado in the Saddle Steve Duncan aka Slim Stevens 1942 War Dogs Fred - Saboteur (as Don Curtis) 1942 Invisible Agent German Sentry (uncredited) 1942 Joan of Ozark Leonard Jones 1942 Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die Phineas Clanton(as Don Curtis) 1942 In Old California Pike - Dawson's Henchman (uncredited) 1942 Westward Ho Rick West 1942 Hello, Annapolis Chief Petty Officer (uncredited) 1942 Code of the Outlaw Henchman Taggart 1942 Today I Hang Ticket Agent (uncredited) 1942 Inflation (short) Salesman (uncredited) 1941 The Royal Mounted Patrol Frenchy Duvalle 1941 We Go Fast The Real Nabob of Borria (uncredited) 1941 Thunder Over the Prairie Henchman Taylor 1941 The Son of Davy Crockett Jack Ringe (as Don Curtis) 1941 Criminals Within Lt. John Harmon 1941 Hands Across the Rockies Dade Crawley 1941 City of Missing Girls Reporter (uncredited) 1941 Secret Evidence Detective Murphy 1940 The Texas Rangers Ride Again Ranger Stafford (uncredited) 1940 The Son of Monte Cristo Guard (uncredited) 1940 Take Me Back to Oklahoma Henchman Snapper 1940 North West Mounted Police Mountie Secretary (uncredited) 1940 Knute Rockne All American West Point Football Player (uncredited) 1940 Junior G-Men Henchman Akin (uncredited) 1940 Murder in the Air Quartermaster (uncredited) 1940 Tear Gas Squad Second Cadet (uncredited) 1940 Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe Ronal [Chs. 1-12] (uncredited) 1940 Emergency Squad Ambulance Interne (uncredited) Show Archive Footage (2 titles) Related Videos See all 13 » Edit Personal Details Alternate Names: Don Curtis Height: 6' 4" (1.93 m) Edit Did You Know? Trivia: He was a noted author and lecturer. In addition to his major books, Helping Heaven Happen, Your thoughts can change your live, Human problems and how to solve them, Daily power for youthful living, The golden bridge: and New age understanding, he authored many inspirational booklets and wrote numerous articles which appeared regularly over the years in Science of Mind... See more » Star Sign: Pisces end quote from: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0193321/		1940