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Bernard Herschel Schwartz, Anthony Curtis, Тони Кертис
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Tony Curtis (June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in over 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. In his later years, Curtis made numerous television appearances. Although his early film roles were partly the result of his good looks, by the later half of the 1950's he became a notable and strong screen presence. He began proving himself to be a “fine dramatic actor,” having the range to act in numerous dramatic and comedy roles. In his earliest parts he acted in a string of "mediocre" films, including swashbucklers, westerns, light comedies, sports films, and a musical. However, by the time he starred in Houdini (1953) with his wife Janet Leigh, "his first clear success," notes critic David Thomson, his acting had progressed immensely. He won his first serious recognition as a skilled dramatic actor in Sweet Smell of Success (1957) with co-star Burt Lancaster. The following year he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in another drama, The Defiant Ones (1958). Curtis then gave what many believe was his best acting, in a completely different role, the comedy Some Like It Hot (1959). Thomson calls it an "outrageous film," and it was voted the number 1 funniest film in history from a survey done by the American Film Institute. It costarred Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe, and was directed by Billy Wilder. That was followed by Blake Edwards’ comedy Operation Petticoat (1959) with Cary Grant. They were both “frantic comedies,” and displayed "his impeccable comic timing." He often collaborated with Edwards on later films. His most significant serious part came in 1968 when he starred in the true-life drama The Boston Strangler, which some consider his "last major film role." The part reinforced his reputation as a serious actor with his "chilling portrayal" of serial killer Albert DeSalvo. He gained 30 pounds and had his face "rebuilt" with a false nose to look like the real DeSalvo. Curtis was the father of actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis by his first wife, actress Janet Leigh.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1925-06-03
- event Death Date 2010-09-29
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 12.5
- info Birth Place Bronx, New York, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Tony Curtis
8.1
Some Like It Hot
1959-03-19
7.6
Spartacus
1960-10-13
7.6
Sweet Smell of Success
1957-07-04
5.3
Don't Make Waves
1967-06-20
6.7
The Count of Monte-Cristo
1975-10-31
3.7
Casanova & Co.
1977-03-01
5.6
Play It to the Bone
1999-12-25
6.3
Paris When It Sizzles
1964-03-01
7.1
Criss Cross
1949-02-04
3.8
Center of the Web
1992-05-15
4.1
Bounty Hunters 2: Hardball
1997-03-30
4.2
The Mummy Lives
1993-07-10
6.1
The Mirror Crack'd
1980-09-19
7.2
The Defiant Ones
1958-08-14
7.1
The Great Race
1965-07-01
5.5
Murder in Three Acts
1986-10-01
6.6
The List of Adrian Messenger
1963-05-23
4.7
Naked in New York
1993-11-10
6.2
The Black Shield of Falworth
1954-09-02
5
Allen in Movieland
1955-07-02
6.6
Captain Newman, M.D.
1963-12-25
6.8
The Boston Strangler
1968-10-08
7.2
Operation Petticoat
1959-12-05
6.6
Sex and the Single Girl
1964-12-25
6
Forbidden
1953-12-02
2
Hollywood Legenden
2004-01-01
5.5
The Manitou
1978-04-28
6.2
Trapeze
1956-05-30
5.7
The Immortals
1995-10-05
6.2
6 Bridges to Cross
1955-01-21
5.2
Lepke
1975-05-23
7.3
Winchester '73
1950-07-12
6
The Lady Gambles
1949-05-20
6.3
Insignificance
1985-08-02
7.1
The Vikings
1958-06-11
0
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
2010-02-10
0
Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon
2010-02-10
0
Tony Curtis erzählt...
2010-10-03
4.6
People, Hopes, Medals
1960-03-14
6.3
Taras Bulba
1962-11-21
6.5
Houdini
1953-07-02
6.3
Reflections of Evil
2002-03-22
5.3
Beachhead
1954-02-05
6.3
The Last Tycoon
1976-11-18
5.5
City Across the River
1949-04-07
6.7
Mission: Monte Carlo
1974-01-01
6.9
The Great Impostor
1960-12-23
5.2
Lobster Man from Mars
1990-02-09
6.3
Boeing, Boeing
1965-12-22
5.9
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969-04-28
5.3
I Was a Shoplifter
1950-05-13
6.5
Little Miss Marker
1980-03-21
4.9
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
1978-06-30
6
Club Life
1986-02-20
5.2
Walter and Carlo in America
1989-11-24
4.3
Beauty and the Bandit
1994-04-03
6.5
Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949-04-20
5.6
Goodbye Charlie
1964-11-18
6.1
Pepe
1960-12-21
5.8
Son of Ali Baba
1952-08-15
4.9
The Prince Who Was a Thief
1951-05-17
5.6
The Midnight Story
1957-06-04
6
Not With My Wife, You Don't
1966-11-02
4.5
Christmas in Connecticut
1992-12-22
4.4
BrainWaves
1983-08-05
6.3
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009-09-12
6.1
Kings Go Forth
1958-06-28
6
Flesh and Fury
1952-06-26
5.8
Kansas Raiders
1950-11-15
6.6
The Rat Race
1960-07-10
0
The Continued Adventures of Reptile Man
1997-05-13
6.2
Who Was That Lady?
1960-04-08
5.5
The Rawhide Years
1956-07-01
5
The Purple Mask
1955-06-15
5.2
Johnny Dark
1954-06-25
5.3
Sierra
1950-05-26
0
Death Becomes Me
1979-01-01
0
The Masqueraders
1980-01-01
8.7
The Persuaders!
1973-04-01
0
The Last Appointment!
1977-06-11
3.3
Sextette
1978-03-03
5.8
You Can't Win 'Em All
1970-07-23
5.6
No Room for the Groom
1952-06-13
2
Midnight
1989-07-01
5.5
Mister Cory
1957-02-23
3.5
Where Is Parsifal?
1984-01-01
0
The Million Dollar Face
1981-03-12
6.2
The Outsider
1961-12-27
6.5
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983-02-25
5.7
The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
1988-05-04
1
The Users
1978-10-01
1
Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration
1979-05-07
0
Magic with the Stars
1982-01-17
9
The Third Girl from the Left
1973-10-16
0
Balboa
1983-01-02
6
Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten
2006-03-15
7.1
The Perfect Furlough
1958-11-30
7
Tony Curtis on 'Some Like It Hot'
2001-05-22
8.5
The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006-06-25
7
The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006-06-25
5.2
Prime Target
1991-09-27
5
The All American
1953-10-01
5.4
40 Pounds of Trouble
1962-12-31
0
How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border
1949-01-01
5
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970-09-11
10
Portrait of a Showgirl
1982-04-09
5.9
Arrivederci, Baby!
1966-12-28
2.2
Stargames
1998-06-03
0
Roxanne's Best Christmas Ever
1998-12-15
4
Meet Danny Wilson
1952-02-08
0
Louis & Frank
1998-07-08
6
The Square Jungle
1955-12-30
3.9
Tarzan in Manhattan
1989-04-15
9
Rat Pack
2022-01-11
2.7
Black Commando
1982-11-15
6
Thanksgiving Day
1990-11-19
4.4
On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
1967-12-01
4.8
It Rained All Night the Day I Left
1980-08-05
7.1
The Celluloid Closet
1996-01-30
6.1
The Scarlett O'Hara War
1980-05-19
5
David & Fatima
2008-06-27
6
Roger Moore: A Matter Of Class
1995-11-16
5.5
Francis
1950-02-08
8.5
So This Is Paris
1954-12-15
7.5
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
1986-07-31
0
Half Nelson
1985-03-24
5.9
Sparky's Magic Piano
1987-01-01
6.2
Woman in Hiding
1950-01-06
6.3
Wild and Wonderful
1964-06-09
10
Mafia Princess
1986-01-19
4.7
Banter
1986-08-25
6.8
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
2012-03-20
0
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
1991-11-29
7.9
Rosemary's Baby
1968-06-12
0
Title Shot
1979-09-09
8
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954-09-28
0
Come Back Little Shiksa
1952-01-01
5.5
The Re-Inforcer
1951-10-04
5.5
Chamber of Horrors
1966-10-19
0
Fairfax Avenue
1951-01-01
0
An Eye for an Eye
1952-01-02
0
Nightmare
1956-01-01
9
Hugh Hefner: American Playboy
2003-11-18
7
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
8
A Century of Cinema
1994-01-01
10
London Conspiracy
1974-10-04
0
That's Insignificance
2011-06-14
0
Norman Jewison, Film Maker
1971-01-01
7.3
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014-09-20
6
Nobody's Perfect - The Making of Some Like It Hot
2001-12-31
6
Sporting Chance
1975-01-01
0
The Switch
1976-06-07
0
Inmates: A Love Story
1981-02-13
6.8
Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
1994-11-09
6.9
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010-05-05
6
Rescued from the Closet
2001-05-29
0
The World's Most Beautiful Girls
1953-01-29
5.7
This Morning
1988-10-03
7.6
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-10-06
7
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950-09-10
4.6
The One Show
2006-08-14
5.3
Hope & Faith
2003-09-23
4.5
The View
1997-08-11
6.8
Roseanne
1988-10-18
10
Un film et son époque
2003-05-17
7.6
The Persuaders!
1971-09-17
6.5
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20
5.5
General Electric Theater
1953-02-01
5
McCoy
1975-03-11
6.4
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1967-09-09
6.4
This Is Your Life
1952-10-01
6.5
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05
5
Bracken's World
1969-09-19
4.5
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973-04-02
4
The Steve Allen Show
1956-06-24
3.5
The Hollywood Greats
1977-08-04
7
The Oscars
1953-03-19
5
Talking Pictures
2013-01-05
5.5
Wetten, dass..?
1981-02-14
5
The Dame Edna Experience
1987-09-12
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007-02-22
5.5
General Electric Theater
1953-02-01
6.2
The Mrs Merton Show
1995-02-10
7.4
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962-10-01
6.5
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20
0
The Rosemary Clooney Show
1956-05-22
6
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971-05-09
7
Vega$
1978-09-20
5
Shrink Rap
2007-04-02
3.5
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
1966-01-25
9
Bambi Awards
1948-01-01
4
The Steve Allen Show
1956-06-24
4
Die Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998-01-22
7
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993-09-12
6.3
The UnXplained
2019-07-19
6.6
The Dick Cavett Show
1968-06-06
6.6
What's My Line?
1950-02-02
6
Bitte umblättern
1977-04-20
5.7
Suddenly Susan
1996-09-19
0
The Rat Pack
1999-02-19
0
Matin Bonheur
1987-04-14
7.4
The Flintstones
1960-09-30
0
Parkinson
1998-01-09
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0
Sweet Smell of Success
1957-07-04
0
Sex and the Single Girl
1964-12-25
0
Tony Curtis on 'Some Like It Hot'
2001-05-22
0
The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006-06-25
0
The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006-06-25
0
Captain Newman, M.D.
1963-12-25
0
Norman Jewison, Film Maker
1971-01-01
0
Don't Make Waves
1967-06-20
0
Not With My Wife, You Don't
1966-11-02
0
The Vikings
1958-06-11