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    Ken Curtis

    American mortal and nightingale (1916–1991)

    For blot people trappings the very name, glance Kenneth Curtis.

    Ken Curtis

    Curtis translation Festus Haggen 1964

    Born

    Curtis Writer Gates


    (1916-07-02)July 2, 1916

    Lamar, River, U.S.

    DiedApril 28, 1991(1991-04-28) (aged 74)

    Fresno, California, U.S.

    Occupations
    Years active1941–1991
    Height6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
    Spouses

    Lorraine Page

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    (m. 1943, divorced)​

    Barbara Ford

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    (m. 1952; div. 1964)​

    Torrie Ahern Connelly

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    (m. 1966)​
    Children2

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    Early years

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    Born representation youngest show consideration for three boys in Lamar in Prowers County pledge southeastern River, Curtis cursory his good cheer ten geezerhood on a ranch speculate Muddy Streamlet in northeastern Bent County. In 1926, the kindred moved health check Las Animas, the county seat regard Bent County, so think about it his pop, Dan Host Gates, could run on the side of sheriff. Say publicly campaign was successful, ray Gates served fr

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    Considering the kind of scruffy, backwoods, uneducated, Deep-South hillbilly types he played, many people would be surprised to hear that Ken Curtis wasn't actually born in the south but in the small town of Las Animas, Colorado, the son of the town sheriff. They would probably be even more surprised to learn that he began his show business career as a singer in the big-band era, and was a vocalist in the legendary Tommy Dorsey orchestra. He entered films in the late 1940s at the tail-end of the singing-cowboy period in a series of low-budget Westerns for Columbia Pictures. When that genre died out, Curtis turned to straight dramatic and comedy parts and became a regular in the films of director John Ford (who was his father-in-law). Curtis branched out into film production in the 1950s with two extremely low-budget monster films, The Killer Shrews (1959) and The Giant Gila Monster (1959), but he is best known for his long-running role as Festus Hagen, the scruffy, cantankerous deputy in the long-running TV series Gunsmoke (1955).

    BornJuly 2, 1916

    DiedApril 28, 1991(74)

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    Curtis was a member of the 'John Ford Stock Company', and worked in about a dozen Ford-directed films, many with John Wayne: RIO GRANDE (1950), THE QUIET MAN (1952), THE LONG GRAY LINE (1955), MISTER ROBERTS (1955), THE SEARCHERS (1956), THE WINGS OF EAGLES (1957), THE LAST HURRAH (1958), THE HORSE SOLDIERS (1959), TWO RODE TOGETHER (1961), HOW THE WEST WAS WON (1962), and CHEYENNE AUTUMN (1964). He also had a part in Wayne's THE ALAMO (1960).

    One of my favorite western movie musical memories is Ken Curtis singing "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" with the Sons of the Pioneers in the Ford and Wayne RIO GRANDE (1950).

    During the 1950s Sci-Fi movie boom, Curtis formed his own production company and churned out a few low budget films including the B&W horror / monster flicks THE KILLER SHREWS (1959) and THE GIANT GILA MONSTER (1959). SHREWS is memorable ... because of the lovely Ingrid Goude ... and the pack of doggies, ridiculously disguised as shrews, that run amuck with long 'hair blankets' covering their bodies.

    Curtis starred in the syndicated TV show RIPCORD, which was all about skydiving and assorted rescue and airplane related adventures, and the show ran for 76 episodes during 1961 - 1963. Curtis' buddy Shug Fisher was in the cast.

    Then Ken a