Tragic Loss: ‘Blues Brothers’ and ’10 Commandments’ Actor Dalyce Curry Killed in Los Angeles Wildfires
She was 95 years old.
Dalyce Curry, the 95-year-old actor who appeared in iconic films like The Blues Brothers and The 10 Commandments, has died in the Los Angeles wildfires.
The Eaton Fire has ripped through parts of Pasadena and nearby Altadena, where Curry’s longtime home stood before becoming engulfed in flames. Her granddaughter Dalyce Kelley, who worked as a part-time caregiver for the former actress, realized something was wrong when she received a text alert that the power had gone out at her grandmother’s house just hours after the fire broke out.
When Kelley rushed to the area to check on her grandmother, she was told she was too late. “‘I’m sorry, your grandmother’s property is gone. It totally burned down,'” an officer told her at a barricade, according to KABC.
Kelley was eventually escorted by a member of the national guard to her grandmother’s home. The family discovered her remains at the site.
“It was total devastation,” Kelley said. “Everything was gone except her blue Cadillac.”
Curry was a part of Old Black Hollywood in the 1950s. She appeared as an extra in movies like The 10 Commandments, The Blues Brothers, and Lady Sings the Blues. Although she was 95 years old, her family says she still had a lust for life up until the very end.
“She was very active,” granddaughter Loree Beamer-Wilkinson said. “You would not think she was 95.”
Local authorities continue to battle the ongoing Eaton Fire before more structures—and lives—like Curry’s are lost.
