George Curzon
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- For the British statesman, see George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.
Commander Chambré George William Penn Curzon-Howe (18 October 1898–7 May 1976), known as George Curzon, was a Royal Navy Commander and actor and father of the present Earl Howe.
Curzon was the only son of diplomat Hon. Frederick Curzon-Howe (himself a son of the 3rd Earl Howe) and his wife, Minnie. Curzon first saw action in World War I before turning to acting in 1930, when he was given a minor role as a police constable in Basil Dean's Escape (1930). His first major role came in 1935 when he appeared as the title role in Sexton Blake and the Bearded Doctor and again in Sexton Blake and the Mademoiselle (1935) and Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938).
A brief interruption came to Curzon's acting career in 1939, when after playing a minor role in Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn, he was again enlisted in the navy during World War II, but 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 kinsman's title of Earl Howe in 1984 (long after the death of Curzon himself in 1976) and his daughter was granted the rank of an earl's daughter a year later (i.e. Lady Emma).
