Curt Conway

{{short description|American actor}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|5|4}}

| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1974|4|10|1915|5|4|mf=y}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

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| years_active = 1947–1974

| spouse = Sandra Francis
({{abbr|m.|married}} 19??; {{abbr|div.|divorced}} 19??)
{{marriage|Kim Stanley|1949|1956|end=divorced}}
{{marriage|Gail Burton
|1970}}

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Curt Conway (May 4, 1915 – April 10, 1974) was an American actor. He was sometimes billed as Curtis Conway or Kurt Conway. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Conway appeared in a number of Broadway plays, had small parts in films. such as Hud (1963), and appeared on TV from 1960 until his death.

A member of the Group Theatre, and later the Actors Studio, Conway went on to found his own acting school, the Theatre Studio, in 1952. Located at 353 West 48th Street in Manhattan,{{cite book|quote=Theatre Studio Curt Conway Group Theatre.|first=William J.|last=Mann|url=https://archive.org/details/hellogorgeousbec0000mann_c6n6|url-access=registration|title=Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand|year=2012|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company|location=New York|isbn=978-0-547-36892-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/hellogorgeousbec0000mann_c6n6/page/13 13]|chapter=Winter 1960}} its faculty included, at one time or another, Nora Dunfee, Robert Alvin, and fellow Actors Studio members Lonny Chapman and David Pressman. The Actors Studio also supplied some of the school's participating directors, namely Martin Ritt, Alan Schneider, and Joseph Anthony; also participating were Horton Foote and Everett Chambers.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1299&dat=19570828&id=WtpHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EIwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2066,5939987 "Curt Conway's Theatre Studio of New York, Inc."]. The Village Voice. August 28, 1957.[https://books.google.com/books?id=K74vAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Theatre+Studio%22+%22Curt+Conway%22 "Instruction"]. Equity News. Volumes 42-43. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he taught acting at the School of Performing Arts in San Diego and the University of California at Irvine (UCI).

Conway was married three times, including to actress Kim Stanley from 1949 to 1956, with whom he had one daughter.

Conway died from a heart attack at the age of 58.