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Ken Curtis

Highest Rated: 93% Mister Roberts (1955)

Lowest Rated: 20% The Giant Gila Monster (1959)

Birthday: Jul 2, 1916

Birthplace: Lamar, Colorado, USA

Former big-band vocalist (he joined the Tommy Dorsey Band after Frank Sinatra left) and singing cowboy in low-budget westerns of the 1940s, ken Curtis is best known as the scuffy bewhiskered deputy sheriff Festus Haggen in the hit western TV series "Gunsmoke" (1964-75). He also appeared in several films by his then father-in-law John Ford including "Mister Roberts" (1955), "The Searchers" and "Wings of Eagles" (both 1956), "The Last Hurrah" (1958) and "The Horse Soldiers" (1959).

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Highest-Rated Movies

93% 84% Mister Roberts
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86% 52% Two Rode Together
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83% 81% The Last Hurrah
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81% 75% The Horse Soldiers
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58% 81% Robin Hood
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52% 64% The Alamo
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40% 56% The Wings of Eagles
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40% 24% The Killer Shrews
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20% 23% The Giant Gila Monster
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100% God's Outlaw
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Ken Curtis

Ken Curtis THE YOUNG LAND, Ken Curtis, 1959 CALL OF THE FOREST, from left: Charlie Hughes, Ken Curtis, 1949 TWO RODE TOGETHER, Harry Carey, Jr., Ken Curtis, 1961 CALL OF THE FOREST, third, fourth and fifth from left: Tom Hanly, Robert Lowery, Ken Curtis, 1949 CALL OF THE FOREST, from left: Chief Thundercloud, Ken Curtis, 1949 CALL OF THE FOREST, from left: Ken Curtis, Charlie Hughes, Martha Sherrill, Tom Hanly, 1949 CALL OF THE FOREST, from left: Ken Curtis, Charlie Hughes, 1949 MISTER ROBERTS, Henry Fonda (left), Ken Curtis (sailor uniform), Jack Lemmon (second from right), 1955. THE KILLER SHREWS, Ken Curtis, 1959 View more photos

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Conagher 76% 1991 Seaborn Tay Actor Once Upon a Texas Train 44% 1988 Kelly Sutton Actor God's Outlaw 100% 1986 Producer First Fruits 1983 Screenwriter, Producer Lost 1983 Actor California Gold Rush 1981 Kentuck Actor Once Upon a Starry Night 1978 Uncle Ned Actor Pony Express Rider 1976 Jed Richardson Actor Robin Hood 58% 81% 1973 Nutsy Voice Two Rode Together 86% 52% 1961 Greeley Clegg Actor The Alamo 52% 64% 1960 Capt. Almeron Dickinson Actor Freckles 1960 Wessner Actor The Young Land 22% 1959 Lee Hearn Actor The Giant Gila Monster 20% 23% 1959 Producer The Killer Shrews 40% 24% 1959 Jerry Farrell Actor, Producer Escort West 33% 1959 Trooper Burch Actor The Horse Soldiers 81% 75% 1959 Cpl. Wilkie Actor The Last Hurrah 83% 81% 1958 Monsignor Killian Actor The Missouri Traveler 14% 1958 Fred Mueller Actor The Wings of Eagles 40% 56% 1957 John Dale Price Actor Mister Roberts 93% 84% 1955 Yeoman 3rd Class Dolan Actor Call of the Forest 1949 Bob Brand Actor Riders of the Pony Express 1949 Tom Blake/Tom Bledsoe Actor Over the Santa Fe Trail 1947 Curt Mason Actor Out of the Depths 1946 Buck Clayton Actor
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