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Jack Curtis (other) , American composer
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Jack Curtis may refer to: * Jack Curtis (actor) (1880–1956), silent film actor * Jack Curtis (voice actor) (1926–1970), voice actor *Jack Curtis (baseball) (born 1937), Major League Baseball player * Jack Curtis (footballer, born 1888) (1888–1955), English footballer *Jack Curtis (footballer, born 1995), English footballer * Jack Curtis (politician) (1912–2002), American politician, Missouri senator * Jack Curtis (World War II aviator) (1923–2009), World War II aviator and prisoner of war *Jack Curtis, pseudonym used by David Harsent * Jack Curtiss, pseudonym used by Jack Kirby See also *John Curtis (other) *Jack Curtis Dubowsky Jack Curtis Dubowsky is an American composer and author who has composed music for film, chorus, and concert performance. His music has been performed by the San Francisco Choral Artists, the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco, the Snopea Chambe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Curtis (actor)
Jack Curtis (May 28, 1880 – March 16, 1956) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1915 and 1950. He was born in San Francisco, California, and died in Hollywood, California. 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 * ''Graft'' (1915) * '' Secret Love'' (1916) * ''The Woman's Law'' (1916) * ''The Secret of the Swamp'' (1916) * ''It Happened in Honolulu'' (1916) * '' The Iron Hand'' (1916) * ''The Yaqui'' (1916) * ''Up or Down?'' (1917) * ''Broadway Arizona'' (1917) * ''Mutiny'' (1917) * ''The Greater Law'' (1917) * ''Southern Justice'' (1917) * '' God's Crucible'' (1917) * '' Little Red Decides'' (1918) * '' The Golden Fleece'' (1918) * ''The Last Rebel'' (1918) * '' Treat 'Em Rough'' (1919) * ''The Coming of the Law'' (1919) * '' The Pest'' (1919) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Curtis (voice Actor)
Jack Curtis, Jr. (June 16, 1926 – September 1970) was an American voice actor, director, producer, writer and editor. He began his career as an actor in radio shows in the 1940s. He directed, produced, shot and edited the sci-fi thriller film ''The Flesh Eaters (film), The Flesh Eaters'' (1964). He did numerous voice-overs. His voice was featured in several cartoons, and he dubbed the voices for animated characters that included ''Kimba the White Lion'', ''Marine Boy'', and ''Speed Racer'' for the Anime, Japanese anime series in 1967. Early life He was born in Queens, Queens, New York, the son of theatrical agent Jack Curtis and vaudeville dancer Mabel Ford. His half sister was actress Beatrice Curtis (1901-1963), whose first husband was the vaudevillian actor Harry Fox of the dance the foxtrot. He was also the first cousin of magician Roy Benson who appeared on ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. Career Curtis started acting as a teenager in the early 1940, performing in various radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Curtis (baseball)
Jack Patrick Curtis (born January 11, 1937) is an American former professional baseball player and left-handed pitcher who worked in 69 games in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs (1961–62), Milwaukee Braves (1962) and Cleveland Indians (1963). He was listed as tall and and signed with the Cubs in 1955 after graduating from Granite Falls High School in Granite Falls, North Carolina. Curtis joined the MLB Cubs after two stalwart seasons in minor league baseball. In 1959, he won 20 games (losing 10) with a sparkling 2.84 earned run average for the Class B Wenatchee Chiefs. Then, in 1960, he went 19–8 (3.57) for the Double-A San Antonio Missions and was named the Texas League The Texas League is a Minor League Baseball league which has operated in the South Central United States since 1902. It is classified as a Double-A league. Despite the league's name, only its five South Division teams are actually based in the ...'s pitcher of the year. In his rookie c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Curtis (footballer, Born 1888)
John Joseph Curtis (13 December 1888 – 8 March 1955) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Sunderland, Gainsborough Trinity, Tottenham Hotspur, Fulham, Stockport County and Middlesbrough as an outside left. He is best remembered for his four-year spell with Tottenham Hotspur between 1909 and 1913 and later coached in the Netherlands. Career An outside left, Curtis began his career with spells at non-League clubs Eston United, South Bank St Peters, South Bank, Shildon Athletic, a period which was bisected by an unsuccessful spell with First Division club Sunderland during the 1906–07 season. Curtis joined Second Division club Gainsborough Trinity in 1908 and scored two goals in 30 league appearances, before joining divisional rivals Tottenham Hotspur the following year. Almost immediately after Curtis joined the club, promotion to the First Division was achieved and he went on to score five goals in 89 appearances during j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Curtis (footballer, Born 1995)
Jack John Charles Richard Curtis (born 11 September 1995) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Grays Athletic. Curtis progressed through the youth ranks at Tottenham Hotspur and had a brief stint with Maldon Town prior to joining Colchester United's Academy in 2011. After four years with the side, he made his professional debut in the FA Cup in November 2015. He had a loan spell with Needham Market in 2016, before leaving Colchester in January 2017. He had a brief spell at Harlow Town in 2017. Career Curtis, who was born in Brentwood, Essex and attended Shenfield High School, began his career with Tottenham Hotpsur where he was a member of the Academy. He briefly joined Maldon Town, before he joined Colchester United's Academy to continue his development ahead of the 2011–12 season. He signed his first professional contract with Colchester in November 2013. In the same season, Curtis helped the under-18 side to the Football League Youth Alliance Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Curtis (politician)
Jack S. Curtis (March 25, 1912 – April 20, 2002) was an American politician from Springfield, Missouri, who served in the Missouri Senate. He served as city attorney for Springfield from 1941 until 1942. Curtis served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve from 1944 until 1946. References 1912 births 2002 deaths Republican Party Missouri state senators 20th-century American politicians {{Missouri-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Curtis (World War II Aviator)
Jack C. Curtis (July 26, 1923 – May 24, 2009) was a B-24 navigator during World War II who spent over eight months as a prisoner of war. His exploits were chronicled, along with those of his friend and fellow POW, Lawrence Jenkins, in the 2007 book, ''Eagles' Wings, An Uncommon Story of World War II'', by Andrew Layton. Biography A lifelong resident of Battle Creek, Jack Curtis was born on July 26, 1923. He left his night-time job at Kellogg's to enlist in the Army Air Corps when World War II broke out. Assigned to Aviation Cadet school, Curtis would become a Navigator on B-24 "Liberators" with the 376th Bomb Group, stationed in Southern Italy. By late 1944, Jack had become a seasoned combat veteran with more than 30 successful bombing missions to his credit. However, it was the 31st that would prove to be his most memorable. While flying over Marburg, Yugoslavia, his aircraft took a mortal hit that killed seven of its eleven crewmembers. Jack escaped, but not with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Harsent
David Harsent (born in Devon) is an English poet who for some time earned his living as a TV scriptwriter and crime novelist. Background During his early career he was part of a circle of poets centred on Ian Hamilton and forming something of a school, promoting conciseness and imagist-like clarity in verse, though his work has changed and developed a good deal since then. He has published twelve collections of poetry which have won several literary prizes and awards. ''Legion'' won the Forward Prize for best collection 2005 and was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot and Whitbread Awards. ''Night'' (2012) was triple short-listed for major awards in the UK and won the Griffin International Poetry Prize. ''Fire Songs'' won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2014. ''Sprinting from the Graveyard.'' his versions of poems written by the Bosnian poet Goran Simic while under siege in Sarajevo, appeared in 1997 and was adapted to opera, radio and television. ''In Secret'', his versions of Yanni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Curtiss
Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg; August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comics artist, comic book artist, writer and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. He grew up in New York City and learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and editorial cartoons. He entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s, drawing various comics features under different pen names, including Jack Curtiss, before ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics. During the 1940s, Kirby regularly teamed with Simon, creating numerous characters for that company and for National Comics Publications, later to become DC Comics. After serving in the European Theater of Operations, United States Army, European Theater in World War II, Kirby pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
