Gunsmoke
1955
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By virtue of his second marriage, Curtis was a son-in-law of film director John Ford. Curtis teamed with Ford and John Wayne in Rio Grande. He was a singer in the movie's fictional band The Regimental Singers that actually consisted of the Sons of the Pioneers; Curtis is not listed as a member of the principal cast.
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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 ...
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- April 28, 1991
Nov 11, 2022 · Actor Ken Curtis was John Ford's son-in-law, who occasionally trimmed his toenails to get in good favor with him.
Oct 8, 2023 · Kenneth Gates Curtis, or Ken Curtis as he was commonly known, was born on July 2, 1916, in the small town of Lamar, Colorado. He grew up amidst the scenic landscapes of the American West, which would later influence his roles in Western films.
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).
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- Lamar, Colorado, USA
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- Fresno, California, USA
Nov 8, 2023 · Ken was raised alongside his twin brother Chester Kurtis and their older brother Carl Gates on a ranch in Lamar, but they moved to Las Animas, Colorado in 1926, so that their father Dan Sullivan Gates could run for Sheriff; their mother Nellie Sneed Gates was a housewife.
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).
