Nathan Curry

{{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.{{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}} Curry had prominent parts in silent films but was not given screen credit.{{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}} He was one of the featured players of Black Hollywood.{{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}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=53hRAQAAIAAJ&q=nathan+curry+actor|title=Film History|date=1997|publisher=Taylor & Francis|language=en}}

Before Los Angeles, he lived in Houston, Texas. He began acting in movies in 1919{{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}} awith a small part in The Leopard Woman. He was cast in the film South Sea Love in 1927.{{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}} Curry was in charge of 27 actors during the filming of The Notorious Lady (1927) at the First National Productions' studio.{{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}} For the 1929 film, Four Feathers, Curry helped cast and was in charge of the 600 Black actors that took part in the film's battle scenes. In Al Christie's talkie, Music Hath Harms, Curry had a prominent role as Champagne, the bandmaster. In Ernest B. Shoedsack's film, King Kong, Curry managed 150 actors, including adults and children.{{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}} }}

In 1948, he was an employee of the Los Angeles Housing Authority.

He was part of the African American community of actors in Hollywood along with Maceo Bruce Sheffield and others.{{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}}