# Allen Curtis

Allen Curtis (New York, 1887 – Hollywood, 24 novembre 1961) è stato un regista e sceneggiatore statunitense attivo negli anni Dieci e nei primi anni Venti.

## Biografia

Esordì nel cinema come regista nel 1913, il suo ultimo film fu, nel 1922, A Powder Romance. Nel corso della sua breve carriera cinematografica durata neppure dieci anni, Curtis firmò circa 280 pellicole come regista, una ventina come sceneggiatore e un paio da produttore. Tra gli attori con cui lavorò, si segnalano i nomi di Louise Fazenda, Lon Chaney e la regina dei serial, Grace Cunard.

## Filmografia
### Regista

* Poor Jake's Demise (1913)
* The Statue (1913)
* His Priceless Treasure (1913)
* The Tramp Dentists (1913)
* Throwing the Bull (1913)
* Love and Limburger (1913)
* Mike and Jake Among the Cannibals (1913)
* Mike and Jake at College (1913)
* Almost an Actress (1913)
* Mike and Jake at the Beach (1913)
* Mike and Jake in the Oil Fields (o The Stinger Stung) (1913)
* Mike and Jake Go Fishing (1913)
* Lazy Louis (1913)
* Mike and Jake in the Wild, Wild West (1913)
* A Pair of Bears (1913)
* Mike and Jake in Mexico (1913)
* The Joy Riders (1913)
* Mike and Jake as Heroes (1913)
* For Art and Love (1913)
* Mike and Jake as Pugilists (1913)
* She Should Worry (1913)
* Mike and Jake in Society (1913)
* Their Little Ones (1914)
* Mike and Jake Live Close to Nature (1914)
* Saving the Child (1914)
* The Mystery of a Taxicab (1914)
* Mike and Jake Join the Army (1914)
* Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl (1914)
* A Freak Temperance Wave (1914)
* Nell'anno 2014 (In the Year 2014) (1914)
* Love and Politics (1914)
* The Midnight Alarm (1914)
* The Chicken Chasers (1914)
* A Narrow Escape (1914)
* The Tender Hearted Sheriff (1914)
* The Lightweight Champion (1914)
* Ma and Pa Play Poker (1914)
* Some Boy (1914)
* A Mexico Mix (1914)
* Won in the First (1914)
* Mike and Jake Go in for Matrimony (1914)
* Pay the Rent (1914)
* The Headwaiter (1914)
* The Luck of Hog Wallow Gulch (1914)
* Charlot innamorato (1914)
* Schultz the Paperhanger (1914)
* Mike and Jake in the Clutch of Circumstances (1914)
* How Green Saved His Mother-in-Law (1914)
* A Narrow Squeak (1914)
* Luttie's Lovers (1914)
* The Sharps Want a Flat (1914)
* A Boarder's Mishaps (1914)
* The Bucket Sharpers (1914)
* Roll Your Peanu (1914)
* Schultz the Barber (1914)
* How Green Saved His Wife (1914)
* The Fascinating Eye (1914)
* The Strenuous Life (1914)
* Willy Walrus and the Baby (1914)
* The Magnets (1914)
* Their First Anniversary (1914)
* Bess the Detectress in the Old Mill at Midnight (1914)
* Mike Searches for His Long-Lost Brother (1914)
* The Cure (1914)
* The Fatal Letter (1914)
* Willy Walrus, Detective (1914)
* Love and Electricity (1914)
* Bess the Detectress in Tick, Tick, Tick - cortometraggio (1914)
* Captain Kid's Priceless Treasure (1914)
* Bess the Detectress in the Dog Watch (1914)
* Love, Roses and Trousers (1914)
* Willy Walrus and the Awful Confession (1914)
* His Wife's Family (1914)
* Jimmy Kelly and the Kidnappers (1914)
* The Polo Champions (1914)
* The Wooing of Bessie Bumpkin (1914)
* Wifie's Busy Day (1914)
* The Third Party (1914)
* That's Fair Enough (1914)
* Her Twin Brother (1914)
* What Happened to Schultz? (1914)
* Pass Key Number Two (1914)
* The Diamond Nippers (1914)
* The Little Auto-Go-Mobile (1914)
* Well! Well! (1914)
* Father's Bride (1914)
* Oh! What's the Use? (1914)
* The Monkey's Cabaret (1914)
* Beau and Hobo (1914)
* Jam and Jealousy (1914)
* For the Hand of Jane (1914)
* Love and Graft (1914)
* Jane's Lovers (1914)
* The New Butler (1914)
* In the Clutches of the Villain (1914)
* The Baseball Fans of Fanville (1914)
* Cruel, Cruel World! (1914)
* On Again, Off Again Finnegan (1914)
* Across the Court (1914)
* The Countless Count (1914)
* Mister Noad's Adless Day (1914)
* When Their Wives Joined the Regiment (1914)
* The Hoodoo (1914)
* Two Pals and a Gal (1914)
* The Frankfurter Salesman's Dream (1914)
* The De-feet of Father (1914)
* His Night Out (1914)
* Battle of the Nations (1914)
* The Tricky Flunkie (1914)
* He Married Her Anyhow (1914)
* Eccentric Comiques (1914)
* The Wise Guys (1914)
* A Dream of a Painting (1914)
* Genii of the Vase (1914)
* Love Disguised (1914)
* Lizzie's Fortune (1914)
* How Father Won Out (1914)
* His Doctor's Orders (1914)
* Love and Spirits (1914)
* Hot Stuff (1914)
* The Village Postmaster (1914)
* Two of a Kind (1915)
* Like Father, like Son (1915)
* A Political Mess (1915)
* The Butler's Baby (1915)
* Hubby's Cure (1915)
* The Hicktown Rivals (1915)
* Fools and Pajamas (1915)
* The Magic Mirror - cortometraggio (1915)
* He Fell in Love with His Mother-in-Law (1915)
* The Blank Note (1915)
* Wanted -- A Piano Tuner (1915)
* He Cured His Gou (1915)
* The Plumber Wins the Girl (1915)
* Won with Dynamite (1915)
* Fooling Father (1915)
* Love and Law (1915)
* Saved by a Shower (1915)
* The Water Cure (1915)
* Some Nightmare (1915)
* Back to School Days (1915)
* Schultz's Lady Friend (1915)
* The Rejuvenation of Liza Jane (1915)
* The Wrong Address (1915)
* Wedding Bells Shall Ring (1915)
* The Way He Won the Widow (1915)
* The Fatal Kiss (1915)
* Over the Bounding Waves (1915)
* The Runaway Auto (1915)
* A Day at the San Diego Fair (1915)
* The Lady Doctor of Grizzly Gulch (1915)
* Hiram's Inheritance (1915)
* Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery (1915)
* Lady Baffles and Detective Duck (1915)
* The Lover's Lucky Predicament (1915)
* How Billy Got His Raise (1915)
* Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Sign of the Sacred Safety Pin (1915)
* A Duke for a Day (1915)
* At the Bingville Booster's Barbecue (1915)
* Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the 18 Carrot Mystery (1915)
* When Schultz Led the Orchestra (1915)
* The Mechanical Man (1915)
* Right Off the Reel (1915)
* Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Baffles Aids Cupid (1915)
* Freaks (1915)
* Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Signal of the Three Socks (1915)
* A Duel at Dawn (1915)
* The Village Smithy (1915)
* Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Saved by a Scent (1915)
* Their Bewitched Elopement (1915)
* A Dip in the Water (1915)
* Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Dread Society of the Sacred Sausage (1915)
* The Bravest of the Brave (1915)
* When Hiram Went to the City (1915)
* At the Beach Incognito (1915)
* He Couldn't Fool His Mother-in-Law (1915)
* He Couldn't Support His Wife (1915)
* Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Ore Mystery (1915)
* Fifty Dollars a Kiss (1915)
* Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry (1915)
* No Babies Allowed (1915)
* A Millionaire for a Minute (1915)
* Pete's Awful Crime (1915)
* Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in The Lost Roll (1915)
* A Day at Midland Beach (1915)
* His Twentieth Century Susi (1915)
* Chills and Chickens (1915)
* Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Kidnapping the King's Kids (1915)
* Dad's Awful Deed (1915)
* Mrs. Prune's Boarding House (1915)
* Slightly Mistaken (1915)
* Stage Struck (1915)
* Lemonade Aids Cupid (1916)
* Those Female Haters (1916)
* Mrs. Green's Mistake (1916)
* Leap and Look Thereafter (1916)
* Love Laughs at the Law (1916)
* Muchly Married (1916)
* It Nearly Happened (1916)
* His Highness, the Janitor (1916)
* Hubby Puts One Over (1916)
* The Jitney Driver's Romance (1916)
* A Wife for a Ransom (1916)
* A Raffle for a Husband (1916)
* A Stage Villain (1916)
* A Dark Suspicion (1916)
* Love Quarantined (1916)
* The Fall of Deacon Stillwaters (1916)
* Bashful Charley's Proposal (1916)
* An All Around Cure (1916)
* The Harem Scarem Deacon (1916)
* She Was Some Vampire (1916)
* I've Got Yer Numbe (1916)
* Kate's Lover's Knots (1916)
* She Wrote a Play and Played It (1916)
* Soup and Nuts (1916)
* You Want Something (1916)
* A Marriage for Revenge (1916)
* The Elixir of Life (1916)
* The Heritage of Valor (1916)
* The Deacon Stops the Show (1916)
* In Onion There Is Strength (1916)
* Father Gets in Wrong (1916)
* It's Cheaper to Be Married (1917)
* Good Morning Nurse (1917)
* It's Cheaper to Be Single (1917)
* A Bare Living (1917)
* The Woman in the Case (1917)
* His Family Tree (1917)
* Flat Harmony (1917)
* Swearing Off (1917)
* Simple Sapho (1917)
* Making Monkey Business (1917)
* A Burglar's Bride (1917)
* Not Too Thin to Fight (1917)
* The Twitching Hour (1917)
* The Paperhanger's Revenge (1917)
* Kitchenella (1917)
* Some Nurse (1917)
* The Soubrette (1917)
* The Stinger Stung (1917)
* Back to the Kitchen (1917)
* The Vamp of the Camp (1917)
* Mrs. Madam, Manager (1917)
* Busting Into Society (1917)
* A Gale of Verse (1917)
* Short Skirts and Deep Water (1917)
* Nearly a Queen (1917)
* Circus Sarah (1917)
* Marble Heads (1917)
* The Masked Marvels (1917)
* Her Naughty Choice (1917)
* The Wart on the Wire (1917)
* The Tightwad - cortometraggio (1917)
* I Quit! (1917)
* The Shame of the Bullcon (1917)
* Acqua nel cervello(Water on the Brain) (1917)
* By Heck, I'll Save Her (1918)
* Cave Man Stuff (1918)
* Who's to Blame? (1918)
* Ship, Oy, Oy! (1918)
* Watch Your Watch (1918)
* Nothing but Nerve (1918)
* A Kitchen Hero (1918)
* The Shifty Shoplifter (1918)
* It's a Cruel World (1918)
* Who's Your Wife? (1918)
* Butter Again (1918)
* Passing the Bomb (1918)
* The Borrowed Baby (1918)
* The Butler's Blunder (1918)
* Oh! Man! (1918)
* A Hero 'n Everything (1920)
* Three Pairs of Stockings (1920)
* A Thousand a Week (1921)
* Those Dog Gone Kids (1921)
* The Gay Deceiver (1922)
* A Powder Romance (1922)

### Sceneggiatore

* The Cheese Special (1913)
* He Couldn't Fool His Mother-in-Law (1915)
* He Couldn't Support His Wife (1915)
* No Babies Allowed (1915)
* Dad's Awful Deed (1915)
* Slightly Mistaken (1915)
* Those Female Haters (1916)
* Mrs. Green's Mistake (1916)
* Love Laughs at the Law (1916)
* It Nearly Happened (1916)
* Hubby Puts One Over (1916)
* A Wife for a Ransom (1916)
* A Stage Villain (1916)
* A Dark Suspicion (1916)
* Love Quarantined (1916)
* Bashful Charley's Proposal (1916)
* She Was Some Vampire (1916)
* A Marriage for Revenge (1916)
* Nearly a Queen (1917)
* Circus Sarah (1917)
* Three Pairs of Stockings (1920)
* The Gay Deceiver, regia di Allen Curtis (1922)

### Produttore

* The Thousand-Dollar Drop (1917)
* Flat Harmony (1917)

### Attore

* His Priceless Treasure (1913)