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Dan Curtis Biography
Date of Birth 12 August 1927, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Dan Curtis was born on August 12, 1927 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA as Daniel Mayer Cherkoss. He was a producer and writer, known for Dark Shadows (1966), Dark Shadows (2012) and Burnt Offerings (1976). He was married to Norma Mae Klein. He died on March 27, 2006 in Brentwood, California, USA.
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Spouse
Norma Mae Klein (1952 - 7 March 2006) (her death) (3 children)
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His wife Norma passed away March 7, 2006, from heart disease. She was 75 years old. They had been married 54 years and had 3 daughters.
Had three daughters with wife Norma: Cathy Curtis, Tracy Curtis and the late Linda Curtis (deceased prior to her mother.).
Died 20 days after his wife Norma.
Father of actresses Tracy Curtis and Linda Curtis.
He began his show business career as a salesman for NBC-TV in the 1950s and then went work for entertainment conglomerate MCA.
He regarded The Winds of War (1983) and War and Remembrance (1988) as his finest achievements. These expensive, lavish productions won him international acclaim. However, a generation of science fiction and horror fans also remembers his work in the supernatural genre, notably the TV series Dark Shadows (1966), the series Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974) and its pilot The Night Stalker (1972), Trilogy of Terror (1975) and Burnt Offerings (1976).
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Director (35 credits)
2005 Our Fathers (TV Movie)
2005 Saving Milly (TV Movie)
2004 The Making of 'War & Remembrance' (Video short)
2004 War & Remembrance: Behind the Scenes (Video short)
1998 The Love Letter (TV Movie)
1996 Trilogy of Terror II (TV Movie)
1993 Me and the Kid
1992 Intruders (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Episode #1.2 (1992)
- Episode #1.1 (1992)
1991 Dark Shadows (TV Series) (4 episodes)
- Episode #1.4 (1991)
- Episode #1.3 (1991)
- Episode #1.2 (1991)
- Episode #1.1 (1991)
1991 Dark Shadows: Behind the Scenes (Video)
1988-1989 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) (12 episodes)
- Part 12 (1989)
- Part 11 (1989)
- Part 10 (1989)
- Part 9 (1989)
- Part 8 (1989)
Show all 12 episodes
1986 St. John in Exile
1983 The Winds of War (TV Mini-Series) (7 episodes)
- Into the Maelstrom (1983)
- The Changing of the Guard (1983)
- Of Love and War (1983)
- Defiance (1983)
- Cataclysm (1983)
Show all 7 episodes
1980 The Long Days of Summer (TV Movie)
1979 The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang (TV Movie)
1979 Mrs. R's Daughter (TV Movie)
1979 Supertrain (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Express to Terror (1979)
1978 When Every Day Was the Fourth of July (TV Movie)
1977 Curse of the Black Widow (TV Movie)
1977 Dead of Night (TV Movie)
1976 Burnt Offerings
1975 The Kansas City Massacre (TV Movie)
1975 Trilogy of Terror (TV Movie)
1974 The Great Ice Rip-Off (TV Movie)
1974 The Wide World of Mystery (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest (1974)
1974 The Turn of the Screw (TV Movie)
1974 Melvin Purvis G-MAN (TV Movie)
1974 Dracula (TV Movie)
1974 Scream of the Wolf (TV Movie)
1973 The Invasion of Carol Enders (TV Movie) (uncredited)
1973 The Norliss Tapes (TV Movie)
1973 The Night Strangler (TV Movie)
1971 Night of Dark Shadows
1970 House of Dark Shadows
1968-1969 Dark Shadows (TV Series) (20 episodes)
- Episode #1.811 (1969)
- Episode #1.807 (1969)
- Episode #1.806 (1969)
- Episode #1.737 (1969)
- Episode #1.736 (1969)
- Episode #1.735 (1969)
- Episode #1.682 (1969)
- Episode #1.681 (1969)
- Episode #1.680 (1969)
- Episode #1.667 (1969)
- Episode #1.666 (1969)
- Episode #1.665 (1969)
- Episode #1.664 (1969)
- Episode #1.663 (1969)
- Episode #1.662 (1969)
- Episode #1.661 (1969)
- Episode #1.460 (1968)
- Episode #1.459 (1968)
- Episode #1.458 (1968)
- Episode #1.457 (1968)