Allen Curtis

Allen Curtis (New York, 1887 – Hollywood, 24 novembre 1961) è stato un regista e sceneggiatore statunitense attivo negli anni Dieci e nei primi anni Venti.

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)

Collegamenti esterni

• (EN) Allen Curtis, su IMDb, IMDb.com.
• (EN) Allen Curtis, su AllMovie, All Media Network.