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Profile of Tony Curtis
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3rd June 1925 |
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The Bronx, New York, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Tony Curtis is the stage name of Bernard Schwartz (born June 3, 1925 in The Bronx, New York). His parents, Emanuel Schwartz and Helen Klein, were Jewish immigrants from Hungary. Popular during the late 1950s and early 1960s, the actor's most enduring role has been in Some Like It Hot with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. He has appeared in over 100 films since 1949.
Curtis has also appeared frequently on television; he co-starred with Roger Moore in the TV series The Persuaders!. He made his screen debut uncredited in Criss Cross playing a rhumba dancer. He also did the voice of "Stony Curtis" as a guest star on The Flintstones.
Since at least the early 1980s, Curtis has had a second career as a painter.
Curtis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and received France's honor, the Order of Arts and Letters, in 1995.
Tony Curtis has been married six times. His first (and most famous) wife was the actress Janet Leigh (1927–2004), to whom he was married for 11 years, and with whom he fathered actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis. Tony Curtis currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.
He has also been married to:
- Jill Vandenberg Curtis (November 6, 1998—)
- Lisa Deutsch (February 28, 1993–1994); divorced
- Andrea Savio (1984–1992); divorced
- Leslie Allen (April 20, 1968–1982); divorced, two children
- Christine Kaufmann (February 8, 1963–1967); divorced, two children
Filmography
- 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 (movie) (1953)
- All American (1953)
- Forbidden (1953)
- Beachrock (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 Imposter (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)
- Othello, the Black Commando (1982)
- Where Is Parsifal? (1983)
- BrainWaves (1983)
- The Fantasy Film 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)
Politics
Curtis and actress-activist Bo Derek met with Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA) in Washington, DC, in May 2004 to discuss protecting horses. The relevant bill is H.R. 857, The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act.
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