Biografia Esordì nel cinema come regista nel 1913, il suo ultimo film fu, nel 1922, A Powder Romance. Nel corso della sua breve carriera cinematografica durata neppure dieci anni, Curtis firmò circa 280 pellicole come regista, una ventina come sceneggiatore e un paio da produttore. Tra gli attori con cui lavorò, si segnalano i nomi di Louise Fazenda, Lon Chaney e la regina dei serial, Grace Cunard.
Filmografia Regista
Poor Jake's Demise (1913) The Statue (1913) His Priceless Treasure (1913) The Tramp Dentists (1913) Throwing the Bull (1913) Love and Limburger (1913) Mike and Jake Among the Cannibals (1913) Mike and Jake at College (1913) Almost an Actress (1913) Mike and Jake at the Beach (1913) Mike and Jake in the Oil Fields (o The Stinger Stung) (1913) Mike and Jake Go Fishing (1913) Lazy Louis (1913) Mike and Jake in the Wild, Wild West (1913) A Pair of Bears (1913) Mike and Jake in Mexico (1913) The Joy Riders (1913) Mike and Jake as Heroes (1913) For Art and Love (1913) Mike and Jake as Pugilists (1913) She Should Worry (1913) Mike and Jake in Society (1913) Their Little Ones (1914) Mike and Jake Live Close to Nature (1914) Saving the Child (1914) The Mystery of a Taxicab (1914) Mike and Jake Join the Army (1914) Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl (1914) A Freak Temperance Wave (1914) Nell'anno 2014 (In the Year 2014) (1914) Love and Politics (1914) The Midnight Alarm (1914) The Chicken Chasers (1914) A Narrow Escape (1914) The Tender Hearted Sheriff (1914) The Lightweight Champion (1914) Ma and Pa Play Poker (1914) Some Boy (1914) A Mexico Mix (1914) Won in the First (1914) Mike and Jake Go in for Matrimony (1914) Pay the Rent (1914) The Headwaiter (1914) The Luck of Hog Wallow Gulch (1914) Charlot innamorato (1914) Schultz the Paperhanger (1914) Mike and Jake in the Clutch of Circumstances (1914) How Green Saved His Mother-in-Law (1914) A Narrow Squeak (1914) Luttie's Lovers (1914) The Sharps Want a Flat (1914) A Boarder's Mishaps (1914) The Bucket Sharpers (1914) Roll Your Peanu (1914) Schultz the Barber (1914) How Green Saved His Wife (1914) The Fascinating Eye (1914) The Strenuous Life (1914) Willy Walrus and the Baby (1914) The Magnets (1914) Their First Anniversary (1914) Bess the Detectress in the Old Mill at Midnight (1914) Mike Searches for His Long-Lost Brother (1914) The Cure (1914) The Fatal Letter (1914) Willy Walrus, Detective (1914) Love and Electricity (1914) Bess the Detectress in Tick, Tick, Tick - cortometraggio (1914) Captain Kid's Priceless Treasure (1914) Bess the Detectress in the Dog Watch (1914) Love, Roses and Trousers (1914) Willy Walrus and the Awful Confession (1914) His Wife's Family (1914) Jimmy Kelly and the Kidnappers (1914) The Polo Champions (1914) The Wooing of Bessie Bumpkin (1914) Wifie's Busy Day (1914) The Third Party (1914) That's Fair Enough (1914) Her Twin Brother (1914) What Happened to Schultz? (1914) Pass Key Number Two (1914) The Diamond Nippers (1914) The Little Auto-Go-Mobile (1914) Well! Well! (1914) Father's Bride (1914) Oh! What's the Use? (1914) The Monkey's Cabaret (1914) Beau and Hobo (1914) Jam and Jealousy (1914) For the Hand of Jane (1914) Love and Graft (1914) Jane's Lovers (1914) The New Butler (1914) In the Clutches of the Villain (1914) The Baseball Fans of Fanville (1914) Cruel, Cruel World! (1914) On Again, Off Again Finnegan (1914) Across the Court (1914) The Countless Count (1914) Mister Noad's Adless Day (1914) When Their Wives Joined the Regiment (1914) The Hoodoo (1914) Two Pals and a Gal (1914) The Frankfurter Salesman's Dream (1914) The De-feet of Father (1914) His Night Out (1914) Battle of the Nations (1914) The Tricky Flunkie (1914) He Married Her Anyhow (1914) Eccentric Comiques (1914) The Wise Guys (1914) A Dream of a Painting (1914) Genii of the Vase (1914) Love Disguised (1914) Lizzie's Fortune (1914) How Father Won Out (1914) His Doctor's Orders (1914) Love and Spirits (1914) Hot Stuff (1914) The Village Postmaster (1914) Two of a Kind (1915) Like Father, like Son (1915) A Political Mess (1915) The Butler's Baby (1915) Hubby's Cure (1915) The Hicktown Rivals (1915) Fools and Pajamas (1915) The Magic Mirror - cortometraggio (1915) He Fell in Love with His Mother-in-Law (1915) The Blank Note (1915) Wanted -- A Piano Tuner (1915) He Cured His Gou (1915) The Plumber Wins the Girl (1915) Won with Dynamite (1915) Fooling Father (1915) Love and Law (1915) Saved by a Shower (1915) The Water Cure (1915) Some Nightmare (1915) Back to School Days (1915) Schultz's Lady Friend (1915) The Rejuvenation of Liza Jane (1915) The Wrong Address (1915) Wedding Bells Shall Ring (1915) The Way He Won the Widow (1915) The Fatal Kiss (1915) Over the Bounding Waves (1915) The Runaway Auto (1915) A Day at the San Diego Fair (1915) The Lady Doctor of Grizzly Gulch (1915) Hiram's Inheritance (1915) Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery (1915) Lady Baffles and Detective Duck (1915) The Lover's Lucky Predicament (1915) How Billy Got His Raise (1915) Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Sign of the Sacred Safety Pin (1915) A Duke for a Day (1915) At the Bingville Booster's Barbecue (1915) Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the 18 Carrot Mystery (1915) When Schultz Led the Orchestra (1915) The Mechanical Man (1915) Right Off the Reel (1915) Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Baffles Aids Cupid (1915) Freaks (1915) Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Signal of the Three Socks (1915) A Duel at Dawn (1915) The Village Smithy (1915) Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Saved by a Scent (1915) Their Bewitched Elopement (1915) A Dip in the Water (1915) Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Dread Society of the Sacred Sausage (1915) The Bravest of the Brave (1915) When Hiram Went to the City (1915) At the Beach Incognito (1915) He Couldn't Fool His Mother-in-Law (1915) He Couldn't Support His Wife (1915) Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Ore Mystery (1915) Fifty Dollars a Kiss (1915) Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry (1915) No Babies Allowed (1915) A Millionaire for a Minute (1915) Pete's Awful Crime (1915) Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in The Lost Roll (1915) A Day at Midland Beach (1915) His Twentieth Century Susi (1915) Chills and Chickens (1915) Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Kidnapping the King's Kids (1915) Dad's Awful Deed (1915) Mrs. Prune's Boarding House (1915) Slightly Mistaken (1915) Stage Struck (1915) Lemonade Aids Cupid (1916) Those Female Haters (1916) Mrs. Green's Mistake (1916) Leap and Look Thereafter (1916) Love Laughs at the Law (1916) Muchly Married (1916) It Nearly Happened (1916) His Highness, the Janitor (1916) Hubby Puts One Over (1916) The Jitney Driver's Romance (1916) A Wife for a Ransom (1916) A Raffle for a Husband (1916) A Stage Villain (1916) A Dark Suspicion (1916) Love Quarantined (1916) The Fall of Deacon Stillwaters (1916) Bashful Charley's Proposal (1916) An All Around Cure (1916) The Harem Scarem Deacon (1916) She Was Some Vampire (1916) I've Got Yer Numbe (1916) Kate's Lover's Knots (1916) She Wrote a Play and Played It (1916) Soup and Nuts (1916) You Want Something (1916) A Marriage for Revenge (1916) The Elixir of Life (1916) The Heritage of Valor (1916) The Deacon Stops the Show (1916) In Onion There Is Strength (1916) Father Gets in Wrong (1916) It's Cheaper to Be Married (1917) Good Morning Nurse (1917) It's Cheaper to Be Single (1917) A Bare Living (1917) The Woman in the Case (1917) His Family Tree (1917) Flat Harmony (1917) Swearing Off (1917) Simple Sapho (1917) Making Monkey Business (1917) A Burglar's Bride (1917) Not Too Thin to Fight (1917) The Twitching Hour (1917) The Paperhanger's Revenge (1917) Kitchenella (1917) Some Nurse (1917) The Soubrette (1917) The Stinger Stung (1917) Back to the Kitchen (1917) The Vamp of the Camp (1917) Mrs. Madam, Manager (1917) Busting Into Society (1917) A Gale of Verse (1917) Short Skirts and Deep Water (1917) Nearly a Queen (1917) Circus Sarah (1917) Marble Heads (1917) The Masked Marvels (1917) Her Naughty Choice (1917) The Wart on the Wire (1917) The Tightwad - cortometraggio (1917) I Quit! (1917) The Shame of the Bullcon (1917) Acqua nel cervello(Water on the Brain) (1917) By Heck, I'll Save Her (1918) Cave Man Stuff (1918) Who's to Blame? (1918) Ship, Oy, Oy! (1918) Watch Your Watch (1918) Nothing but Nerve (1918) A Kitchen Hero (1918) The Shifty Shoplifter (1918) It's a Cruel World (1918) Who's Your Wife? (1918) Butter Again (1918) Passing the Bomb (1918) The Borrowed Baby (1918) The Butler's Blunder (1918) Oh! Man! (1918) A Hero 'n Everything (1920) Three Pairs of Stockings (1920) A Thousand a Week (1921) Those Dog Gone Kids (1921) The Gay Deceiver (1922) A Powder Romance (1922)
Sceneggiatore
The Cheese Special (1913) He Couldn't Fool His Mother-in-Law (1915) He Couldn't Support His Wife (1915) No Babies Allowed (1915) Dad's Awful Deed (1915) Slightly Mistaken (1915) Those Female Haters (1916) Mrs. Green's Mistake (1916) Love Laughs at the Law (1916) It Nearly Happened (1916) Hubby Puts One Over (1916) A Wife for a Ransom (1916) A Stage Villain (1916) A Dark Suspicion (1916) Love Quarantined (1916) Bashful Charley's Proposal (1916) She Was Some Vampire (1916) A Marriage for Revenge (1916) Nearly a Queen (1917) Circus Sarah (1917) Three Pairs of Stockings (1920) The Gay Deceiver, regia di Allen Curtis (1922)
Produttore
The Thousand-Dollar Drop (1917) Flat Harmony (1917)
Attore His Priceless Treasure (1913)
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