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The Dark Horse is a 2014 New Zealand drama film written and directed by James Napier Robertson and starring Cliff Curtis and James Rolleston.It won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Score at the 2014 New Zealand Film Awards, Best Film at the 2015 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), 2015 San Francisco International Film Festival ...
In 2014, Curtis played the lead role in The Dark Horse, which the National Radio review called "one of the greatest New Zealand films ever made." [12] The New Zealand Herald praised him for his "towering performance" [13] as real-life Gisborne speed chess player and coach Genesis Potini, who died in 2011. Curtis studied chess and deliberately ...
Universal Pictures / Dark Horse Entertainment / Mutual Film Company / Valhalla Motion Pictures: Mystery Men: Universal Pictures / Dark Horse Entertainment / Golar Productions: 2000: G-Men from Hell: Sawmill Entertainment: Direct-to-video. 2003: American Splendor: Fine Line Features / Dark Horse Entertainment / HBO Films / Good Machine: Received ...
Curtis took a step back from acting for a spell in the late-2000s and early-2010s to prioritize her family, though she still earned credits for films such as Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) and ...
Curtis then starred with then-wife Janet Leigh in Houdini (1953), in which Curtis played the title role. His next movies were more "B" fare: All American (1953), as a football player; Forbidden (1953), as a criminal; Beachhead (1954), a war film; Johnny Dark (1954), as a racing car driver; and The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), a medieval ...
Ken Curtis as Festus Haggen and James Arness as Matt Dillon, 1968. Curtis was a singer before moving into acting, and combined both careers once he entered films. [6] Curtis was with the Tommy Dorsey band in 1941, and succeeded Frank Sinatra as vocalist until Dick Haymes contractually replaced Sinatra in 1942. Curtis may have served simply as ...
[6] [7] [8] Her performance also earned her two SAG awards: Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role and Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture. [9] As of 2023, her films have grossed over $2.5 billion at the box office. [10]
In 1985, Curtis was cast opposite John Travolta as a workout instructor in the film Perfect. While her role earned her a reputation as a sex symbol, [5] the film was a critical and commercial flop. It has since earned a cult following, and in a 1994 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Quentin Tarantino called the movie "greatly ...