Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis
Curtis in 1955
Born	Bernard Schwartz June 3, 1925(1925-06-03) New York City, New York, United States
Died	September 29, 2010 (aged 85) Henderson, Nevada, United States
Years active	1949 - 2010
Spouse	Janet Leigh (1951-1962) Christine Kaufmann (1963-1967) Leslie Allen (1968-1982) Andrea Savio (1984-1992) Lisa Deutsch (1993-1994) Jill Vandenberg Curtis (1998-2010)
Children	Kelly Jamie Alexandra Allegra Nicolas (deceased) Benjamin

Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz, June 3, 1925 - September 29, 2010) was an American movie actor. His parents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants. He was most popular during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He is famous for his light comic roles, especially his musician escaping from gangsters in Some Like It Hot (1959). He has also acted in more serious and dramatic movies, like The Defiant Ones (1958), for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He has appeared in over 100 movies since 1949, and made frequent television appearances. He was the father of actress Jamie Lee Curtis. He died on September 29, 2010, aged 85.

Movies

• Criss Cross (1949)
• Bedrock Across the River (1949)
• The Lady Gambles (1949)
• Take One False Step (1949) (scenes deleted)
• Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
• How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border (1949) (short subject)
• Woman in Hiding (1950)
• Francis (1950)
• I Was a Shoplifter (1950)
• Sierra (1950)
• Winchester '73 (1950)
• Kansas Raiders (1950)
• The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951)
• Meet Danny Wilson (1952) (cameo)
• Flesh and Fury (1952)
• No Room for the Groom (1952)
• Son of Ali Baba (1952)
• Houdini (1953)
• The All-American (1953)
• Forbidden (1953)
• Beachhead (1954)
• Johnny Dark (1954)
• The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
• Six Bridges to Cross (1955)
• So This Is Paris (1955)
• The Purple Mask (1955)
• The Rawhide Years (1955)
• The Square Jungle (1955)
• Trapeze (1956)
• Mister Cory (1957)
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
• The Midnight Story (1957)
• The Vikings (1958)
• Kings Go Forth (1958)
• The Defiant Ones (1958)
• The Perfect Furlough (1958)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• Operation Petticoat (1959)
• Who Was That Lady? (1960)
• The Rat Race (1960)
• Spartacus (1960)
• Pepe (1960) (cameo)
• The Great Impostor (1961)
• The Outsider (1961)
• Taras Bulba (1962)
• 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962)
• The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) (cameo)
• Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
• Paris, When It Sizzles (1964) (cameo)
• Wild and Wonderful (1964)
• Goodbye Charlie (1964)
• Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
• The Great Race (1965)
• Boeing Boeing (1965)
• Chamber of Horrors (1966) (cameo)
• Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966)
• Arrivederci, Baby! (1966)
• Don't Make Waves (1967)
• On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... (1968)
• Rosemary's Baby (1968) (voice)
• The Boston Strangler (1968)
• Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969)
• You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
• Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
• Mission: Monte Carlo (1974)
• Lepke (1975)
• London Conspiracy (1976)
• The Last Tycoon (1976)
• Casanova & Co. (1977)
• Sextette (1978)
• The Manitou (1978)
• The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)
• Double Take (1979)
• Title Shot (1979)
• Little Miss Marker (1980)
• It Rained All Night the Day I Left (1980)
• The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
• The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980)
• Othello, the Black Commando (1982)
• Where Is Parsifal? (1983)
• BrainWaves (1983)
• The Fantasy movie Worlds of George Pal (1985) (documentary)
• Club Life (1985)
• Insignificance (1985)
• The Last of Philip Banter (1986)
• Balboa (1986)
• The Passenger - Welcome to Germany (1988)
• Lobster Man from Mars (1989)
• Midnight (1989)
• Walter & Carlo In America (1989)
• Prime Target (1991)
• Center of the Web (1992)
• Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time (1992) (documentary)
• Naked in New York (1993)
• The Mummy Lives (1993)
• A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
• The Immortals (1995)
• The Celluloid Closet (1995) (documentary)
• Hardball (1997)
• Brittle Glory (1997)
• Alien X Factor (1997)
• Stargames (1998)
• Louis & Frank (1998)
• Play It to the Bone (1999) (cameo)
• Reflections of Evil (2002) (narrator)
• Where's Marty? (2006)
• Funny Money (2007)
• The Blacksmith and the Carpenter (2007) (voice)
• David & Fatima (2008)
• Oceans 14 (2009)

Other websites

• Tony Curtis at the Internet Movie Database
• Tony Curtis at the TCM Movie Database
• Biography and naval service from the California Center for Military History website