# Nathan Curry

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{{Short description|American actor}}
'''Nathan Curry''' (January 2, 1897 – December 14, 1964) was an American actor. He was a supporting actor in several films featuring African American casts.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tkoOAQAAMAAJ|title=The Motion Picture Guide|first1=Jay Robert|last1=Nash|first2=Robert|last2=Connelly|first3=Stanley Ralph|last3=Ross|date=October 27, 1985|publisher=Cinebooks|isbn=9780933997004|via=page 651}}</ref> Curry had prominent parts in [silent films](/source/silent_films) but was not given [screen credit](/source/screen_credit).<ref name=":0">{{cite news |title=Nathan Curry One of Busiest Film Actors |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/201922066 |accessdate=27 October 2020 |work=The Pittsburgh Courier |date=29 March 1930 |page=16 |id={{ProQuest|201922066}} |language=English}}</ref> He was one of the featured players of Black Hollywood.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Low|first1=W. Augustus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_JySyryCdsC|title=Encyclopedia of Black America|last2=Clift|first2=Virgil A.|date=1981-01-01|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=978-0-07-038834-5|language=en|via=page 573}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=53hRAQAAIAAJ&q=nathan+curry+actor|title=Film History|date=1997|publisher=Taylor & Francis|language=en}}</ref>

Before [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles), he lived in [Houston, Texas](/source/Houston%2C_Texas).<ref name=":0"/> He began acting in movies in 1919<ref name=":1">{{cite news |title=Nathan Curry to Undergo Surgery |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/562112175 |accessdate=27 October 2020 |work=Los Angeles Sentinel |date=9 December 1948 |page=1 |id={{ProQuest|562112175}} |language=English}}</ref> awith a small part in ''The Leopard Woman''.<ref name=":0"/> He was cast in the film ''[South Sea Love](/source/South_Sea_Love_(1927_film))'' in 1927.<ref>{{cite news |title=Colored Stars Selected For Ince Production |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/201878258 |accessdate=27 October 2020 |work=The Pittsburgh Courier |date=16 July 1927 |page=A2 |id={{ProQuest|201878258}} |language=English}}</ref> Curry was in charge of 27 actors during the filming of ''[The Notorious Lady](/source/The_Notorious_Lady)'' (1927) at the [First National Productions'](/source/First_National_Pictures) studio.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lewis Stone Gets Excellent Support From Colored Movie Actors |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/226369199 |accessdate=27 October 2020 |work=The New York Amsterdam News |date=29 December 1926 |page=11 |id={{ProQuest|226369199}} |language=English}}</ref> For the 1929 film, ''[Four Feathers](/source/The_Four_Feathers_(1929_film))'', Curry helped cast and was in charge of the 600 Black actors that took part in the film's battle scenes.<ref name=":0"/> In [Al Christie's](/source/Al_Christie) [talkie](/source/talkie), ''[Music Hath Harms](/source/Music_Hath_Harms)'', Curry had a prominent role as Champagne, the [bandmaster](/source/bandmaster).<ref name=":0"/> In [Ernest B. Shoedsack](/source/Ernest_B._Shoedsack)'s film, ''[King Kong](/source/King_Kong_(1933_film))'', Curry managed 150 actors, including adults and children.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Levette |first1=Harry |title=In Hollywood |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/530996863 |accessdate=27 October 2020 |work=Afro-American |date=27 May 1933 |page=11|id={{ProQuest|530996863}} }}</ref>

In 1948, he was an employee of the Los Angeles [Housing Authority](/source/Housing_Authority).<ref name=":1"/>

He was part of the African American community of actors in Hollywood along with [Maceo Bruce Sheffield](/source/Maceo_Bruce_Sheffield) and others.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Govenar|first=Alan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YNHQlVnpD_sC&q=nathan+curry+actor&pg=PA153|title=Untold Glory: African Americans in Pursuit of Freedom, Opportunity, and Achievement|date=2008-12-10|publisher=Crown|isbn=978-0-307-49241-8|language=en}}</ref>

==Filmography==
*''[The Leopard Woman](/source/The_Leopard_Woman)'' (1920)
*''[Tarzan and the Golden Lion](/source/Tarzan_and_the_Golden_Lion_(film))''<ref name=":0"/> (1927)
*''[Topsy and Eva](/source/Topsy_and_Eva)''<ref name=":0"/> (1927)
*''[West of Zanzibar](/source/West_of_Zanzibar_(1928_film))''<ref name=":0"/> (1928)
*''[Thunderbolt](/source/Thunderbolt_(1929_film))'' (1929)<ref name=":2">{{cite book |last1=Nesteby |first1=James R. |title=Black Images in American Films, 1896-1954 |date=1982 |publisher=University Press of America |isbn=0-8191-2167-3 |pages=52, 127 |url=https://archive.org/details/blackimagesiname0000nest/page/52/mode/2up |accessdate=27 October 2020}}</ref>
*''[Music Hath Harms](/source/Music_Hath_Harms)'' (1929) as Prof. Aleck Champagne
*''[Four Feathers](/source/The_Four_Feathers_(1929_film))'' (1929)<ref name=":0"/>
*''[Tarzan and His Mate](/source/Tarzan_and_His_Mate)'' (1934) as Saidi<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sYM0DwAAQBAJ&q=nathan+curry+tarzan+and+his+mate&pg=PA28|title=Black Masculinity on Film: Native Sons and White Lies|first=Daniel|last=O'Brien|date=September 6, 2017|publisher=Springer|isbn=9781137593238|via=Google Books}}</ref>
*''[Harlem on the Prairie](/source/Harlem_on_the_Prairie)'' (1937) as Bart<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nathan Curry|url=https://www.videodetective.com/person/nathan-curry-83529|access-date=2020-10-27|website=Video Detective|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Bradley|first=Edwin M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E37pDwAAQBAJ&q=nathan+curry+actor&pg=PA122|title=Hollywood Musicals You Missed: Seventy Noteworthy Films from the 1930s|date=2020-06-08|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-7358-5|language=en}}</ref>
*''[Congo Maisie](/source/Congo_Maisie)'' (1940) as Laemba<ref name=":2"/>
*''[Lucky Ghost](/source/Lucky_Ghost)'' (1942) as Farmer<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Institute|first1=American Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRY0QiacQccC&q=nathan+curry+actor&pg=PA1431|title=AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States|last2=Hanson|first2=Patricia King|date=1999|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-21521-4|language=en}}</ref>
*''[Mr. Washington Goes to Town](/source/Mr._Washington_Goes_to_Town)'' (1942) as Policeman
*''Uncle Tom's Cabin''<ref name=":0"/>
*''The Missing Link''<ref name=":0"/>
*''One in the Air''<ref name=":0"/>
*''Diamond Handcuff''<ref name=":0"/>
*''Hallelujah''<ref name=":0"/>
*''[Hearts in Dixie](/source/Hearts_in_Dixie)''<ref name=":0"/> (1929)
*''Golden Dawn''<ref name=":0"/>
*''Isles of Escape''<ref name=":0"/>

==References==
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Category:20th-century American male actors
Category:1897 births
Category:1964 deaths
Category:20th-century African-American male actors

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