Tony Curtis
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Tony Curtis is the stage name of Bernard Schwartz (b. June 3 1925 in the Bronx, New York), an actor who 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.
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 the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1995.
He has been married five times; his first wife was actress Janet Leigh, with whom he fathered actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis. He was also married to actress Christine Kaufmann in the 1960s.
Filmography
- Criss Cross (1949)
- City 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)
- 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 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, D.C., in May 2004 to discuss protecting horses. The relevant bill is H.R. 857, The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act.
External links
- His official website (http://www.tonycurtis.com/), a "Virtual Art Gallery"
- Biography (http://www.oralhistoryproject.com/TonyCurtis1.html) and Naval service (http://www.oralhistoryproject.com/tcurtis_navy.html) from the California Center for Military History website
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