Keene Curtis

Keene Curtis was an actor who voiced Grand Moff Tarkin in the Star Wars radio dramatization.

Curtis's professional acting career began in 1948 when Orson Welles cast him in a film production of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Soon after, Curtis moved to New York and spent the next twelve years working as a stage manager. His first Broadway performance came in a 1967 production of You Can't Take it With You, which began years of steady work performing in Broadway shows. He won a Tony Award in 1971 for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for The Rothschilds. He died of Alzheimer's in 2002.

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