Curt Conway (May 4, 1915 – April 10, 1974) was an American actor. He was sometimes billed as Curtis Conway or Kurt Conway. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Conway appeared in a number of Broadway plays, had small parts in films. such as '' Hud'' (1963), and appeared on TV from 1960 until his death. A member of the Group Theatre, and later the

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, Conway went on to found his own acting school, the Theatre Studio, in 1952. Located at 353 West 48th Street in

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, its faculty included, at one time or another, Nora Dunfee, Robert Alvin, and fellow Actors Studio members Lonny Chapman and David Pressman. The Actors Studio also supplied some of the school's participating directors, namely

Martin Ritt Martin Ritt (March 2, 1914 – December 8, 1990) was an American director and actor who worked in both film and theater, noted for his socially conscious films. Some of the films he directed include '' The Long, Hot Summer'' (1958), '' The Black ...

Alan Schneider Alan Schneider (December 12, 1917 – May 3, 1984) was an American theatre director responsible for more than 100 theatre productions. In 1984 he was honored with a Drama Desk Special Award for serving a wide range of playwrights. He directed t ...

, and Joseph Anthony; also participating were

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and

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."Instruction"
''Equity News''. Volumes 42-43. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he taught acting at the School of Performing Arts in San Diego and the University of California at Irvine (UCI). Conway was married three times, including to actress Kim Stanley from 1949 to 1956, with whom he had one daughter. Conway died from a

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at the age of 58.

Partial play credits

* '' Johnny Johnson''* (1936) * ''Marching Song''* (1937) * ''

Casey Jones John Luther "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi. Jones was a locomotive engineer for the Illinois Ce ...

''* (1938) * '' The Time of Your Life''* (1938) * '' Quiet City''* (1939) * '' No for an Answer'' (1941) * '' A View from the Bridge''* / '' A Memory of Two Mondays''* (1955) * ''

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''* (1958) * denotes Broadway productions

Filmography

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Conway, Curt 1915 births 1974 deaths American male film actors American male stage actors American male television actors Male actors from Boston 20th-century American male actors