Curtis Roosevelt was born on 19 April 1930 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Marina A. S. Jones, Jeannette Schlottman, Ruth W. Sublette and Robin H. Edwards. He died on 26 September 2016 in Saint-Bonnet-du-Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées, France.