Background
Curzon, born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, was the only son of diplomat Honorary Frederick Curzon-Howe (a son of the 3rd Earl Howe) and his wife, the actress Ellis Jeffreys.
Curzon, born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, was the only son of diplomat Honorary Frederick Curzon-Howe (a son of the 3rd Earl Howe) and his wife, the actress Ellis Jeffreys.
Curzon trained for the Navy at Osborne House in the Isle of Wight, and first saw action in World War I. He retired from the Navy as a Lieutenant-Commander then served as a King"s Messenger before turning to the West End stage in 1930. He then went to America and appeared on the New York stage in Parnell before entering films. He was given a minor role as a police constable in Basil Dean"son
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 and 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 eye-twitch, in a famous long crane shot devised by Hitchcock.
A brief interruption came to Curzon"s acting career in 1939 when, after playing a minor role in Hitchcock"s Jamaica Inn, he again enlisted in the navy during World World War World War II He later starred in various other films from 1947 until 1965.