Christopher Curry
Christopher Curry is an actor, born 1948.
Christopher Curry's filmography reads like a list of job descriptions. Pundit. Journalist. Board Member #1. Minister. Dad #1 at McDonalds. He has been doing this since the early eighties, across more than seventy films and television programmes, and the work is the unglamorous engine of American screen production: the man who delivers the information a scene requires and then gets out of its way.
Twice he was given a name worth remembering. Captain Bosch in C.H.U.D. in 1984 is the police captain in a cheap and genuinely nasty monster picture, and Curry plays him completely straight, which is most of the reason the film still works forty years on. Mr. Bill Rico in Starship Troopers in 1997 is Johnny's father, a handful of scenes of parental disapproval in a film otherwise concerned with propaganda and bugs, and he supplies the ordinary human weight the satire needs to push against.
The rest is steady character work in large films: FBI Agent Stuckey in Home Alone 3, Ed Block in Flags of Our Fathers, Rob Kolodjay in Sully, a board member in Jobs, small parts in Bulworth, Desperate Hours and City of Ghosts. His longest single run was on television, as Earl Kinsella, the father of Wade Kinsella, on Hart of Dixie from 2011 to 2015. Nobody builds a career like this on luck; it takes forty years of being exactly right for two minutes at a time.
Movies (13)
TV (2)
Where to start with Christopher Curry
Begin with C.H.U.D., which is better than both its reputation and its acronym. Curry anchors it as a police captain who treats an absurd premise as a real municipal problem, and the film's grimy 1984 New York holds up far better than the monsters do.
Starship Troopers is the great film on his list, and his few scenes as Rico's father do quiet work that the satire depends on. Sully and Flags of Our Fathers are the Clint Eastwood pictures, both using him as exactly the kind of plain, credible American face those films are built from. Hart of Dixie is the long television run for anyone who wants him in volume. Home Alone 3 is the one your family has seen. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Jobs are paycheques, and there is no shame in that.