From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Commander Chambré George William Penn Curzon 18 October 1898 7 May 1976 known as George Curzon was a Royal Navy Commander actor and father of the present Earl Howe Curzon born in Amersham Buckinghamshire England was the only son of diplomat The Hon Frederick CurzonHowe a son of The 3rd Earl Howe and his wife the actress Ellis Jeffreys Curzon trained for the Navy at the Royal Naval College Osborne on the Isle of Wight and first saw action in the First World War He retired from the Navy as a LieutenantCommander then served as a Kings Messenger before turning to the West End stage in 1930 Curzon then went to America and appeared on the New York stage in the play Parnell before entering films He was given a minor role as a police constable in Basil Deans Escape 1930 His first major role came in 1935 when he appeared as the title role in Sexton Blake and the Bearded Doctor He reprised this role in Sexton Blake and the Mademoiselle 1935 and Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror 1938 He appeared in several films directed by Alfred Hitchcock before he moved to the United States and Hollywood most notably Young and Innocent where he played a musician and murderer who was caught by his nervous eyetwitch in a famous long crane shot devised by Hitchcock A brief interruption came to Curzons acting career in 1939 when after playing a minor role in Hitchcocks Jamaica Inn he again enlisted in the navy during World War II He later starred in various other films from 1947 until 1965 Curzon had two children from his second marriage Frederick Richard Penn b 1951 and Emma Charlotte b 1953 His son succeeded to his kinsmans title of Earl Howe in 1984 long after the death of Curzon himself in 1976 and his daughter was granted the rank of an earls daughter a year later ie Lady Emma
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