Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis was born in Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital on 105th Street, Manhattan, New York, United States on June 3rd, 1925 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 85, Tony Curtis biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Career
Curtis was born in 1948 and died in Hollywood at the age of 23. Curtis' autobiography explains how he accidentally landed Jack Warner on the plane to California and how he briefly dated Marilyn Monroe before either of them became well-known.
He shortened his name from Bernard Schwartz to Anthony Curtis, and he's met unknown actors Rock Hudson, James Best, Julie Adams, and Piper Laurie, among others under Universal Pictures' contract. The first name, "Curtis" and Anthony Adverse was from Kurtz, a surname in his mother's household, and he was from Kurtz. Curtis confessed to initially being worried about his chances of becoming a major celebrity after Universal Pictures taught him fencing and riding. Curtis' biggest fear was that if Curtis' return home to the Bronx as a result of a mishap:
Curtis' uncredited screen debut came in the crime film Criss Cross (1949), when she was performing with Yvonne de Carlo as a rumba dancer. Burt Lancaster, the male actor, would appear in a number of films with Curtis.
He was listed as "Anthony Curtis" in his second film, City Across the River (also 1949). He appeared in The Lady Gambles (1949), as well as a larger role in Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949). He was also in Francis (1950), Woman in Hiding (1950), and I Was a Shoplifter (1950).
He was also active in three Westerns, Sierra (1950), Winchester (1970) and the Kansas Raiders (1951), in which he was branded as "Tony Curtis."
Curtis had received numerous fan letters, so Universal gave him the lead in The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951), a swashbuckler set in the Middle East starring Piper Laurie. Curtis was a hit at the box office, and Curtis was also established.
He stayed up with Flesh and Fury (1952), a boxing film starring Laurie Hart; and Son of Ali Baba (1952), another film set in the Middle East with Laurie.
Curtis appeared with then-wife Janet Leigh in Houdini (1953), in which Curtis appeared in the title role. His upcoming films were more "B" fare: All American (1953), as a footballer; Forbidden (1954), as a war photographer; and Johnny Dark (1954), a medieval swashbuckler with Leigh; and The Black Shield of Falworth (1954) as a British swashbuckler with Leigh. They were moderately profitable financially, and Curtis' popularity was on the rise.
Curtis appeared in So This Is Paris (1955) as a bank robber, before appearing in Six Bridges to Cross (1955) as a swashbuckler; and the boxing film The Square Jungle (1955).
Curtis went on to more lucrative roles as a co-star of Burt Lancaster and Gina Lollobrigida in Hecht-Lancaster Productions' Trapeze (1956). It was one of the year's best hits. Curtleigh Productions, Curtis and Leigh's own independent film production company, was founded in early 1955.
Curtis, a Western (1957), was a gambler in Mister Cory (1957) and a cop in The Midnight Story (1957). Lancaster wanted to be scheming press agent Sidney Falco in Sweet Smell of Success (1957), starring and co-produced by Lancaster. Curtis' film was a box office disappointment, but Curtis' debut received rave reviews.
Curtis appeared in The Vikings (1958), a box office smash, alongside Kirk Douglas and Janet Leigh. Curtis appeared in Kings Go Forth (1958) with Frank Sinatra and Natalie Wood before starring in The Defiant Ones the following year as a bigoted white man chained to a black man (played by Sidney Poitier). Curtis was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 31st Academy Awards for his appearance, losing to David Niven in Separate Tables to David Niven.
Curtis and Janet Leigh appeared in Blake Edwards' The Perfect Furlough (1958). He appeared in Several Like It Hot, as well as Cary Grant in Operation Petticoat (1959).
Curtis and Leigh directed one more film together. Who Was That Lady? (1960), a comedy with Dean Martin. In The Rat Race (1960), he and Debbie Reynolds appeared. He spent time in Spartacus (1960), before beginning to film two biopics: The Great Impostor (1961), directed by Robert Mulligan, featuring Ferdinand Waldo Demara (1961), in which he played war hero Ira Hayes (1961). With Taras Bulba (1962), co-starring Yul Brynner and Christine Kaufmann, Curtis' second wife, he returned to epics.
Curtis Enterprises, Incorporated, a new film production firm, was founded on October 6, 1961. 40 Pounds of Trouble, starring Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette, and Phil Silvers, would be the first motion picture to be shot at Disneyland. Curtis founded Reynard Productions, Inc., on August 3, 1962.
Curtis was one of many actors who had minor roles in The List of Adrian Messenger (1963). In Captain Newman, M.D., he aided Gregory Peck. In Paris, 1963) and Had an uncredited dual role in It Sizzles (1964). Wild and Wonderful (1964), He and Kaufmann's third film together, the comedy Wild and Wonderful (1964). The focus on comedies remained: Goodbye Charlie (1964), with Debbie Reynolds; Sex and the Single Girl (1964), with Natalie Wood; The Great Race (1965), a well-known comedy film up to that time, but also The Great Race (1965) with Jerry Lewis — not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966) with George C. Scott; Don't Make Waves (1966), a British comedy with Rosanna Schiaffino; and On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... (1967), an Italian comedy with Monica Vitti. "Stoney Curtis" was a voice-over guest star on The Flintstones in the early 1960s.
Curtis fired his agent and took a pay cut to $100,000 to play the title role in The Boston Strangler (1968), his first dramatic film in many years, due to poor results in a string of comedies. The criticism and the public received a warm reception. He returned to comedy for Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969), an all-star car race film in the vein of The Great Race.
He wrote some amusing adventure stories: You Can't Win 'Em All (1970) with Charles Bronson, and Suppose They Gave a Battle and Nobody Came (1970).
Curtis decided it was time to go television and co-starred Roger Moore in the TV show The Persuaders! (1971): (1971)
He was one of the criminals in The Count of Monte Cristo (1975) and appeared in the gangster film Lepke (1975). Curtis was the leading actor in a television series that didn't live, McCoy (1975–76). He was one of many names in The Last Tycoon (1976) and appeared in an Italian comedy Casanova & Co. (1977). Curtis co-starred as a casino owner in the Robert Urich 1978-1981 ABC film Vega$ and was in The Users (1978).
Curtis was a fan of Mae West (1978), a horror film, and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978), a comedy. He had good roles in It Rained All Night (1980), Little Miss Marker (1980), and The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980) and was one of many actors in The Mirror Crack'd (1980). In 17 episodes of Aaron Spelling's acclaimed series hit series Vega$, he costarred from 1978 to 1981 in prime time. Curtis continued to make occasional guest appearances (sometimes playing fictional versions of himself) into the mid-2000s after Vega$ on television. Curtis' final television appearance was as host of the documentary-retrospective series "Hollywood Babylon" (adapting Kenneth Anger's book series); each episode will feature Curtis recalling some anecdotes from his own experience. Curtis appeared in Any Like It Hot, a reimagined revival of 1972's musical Sugar (musical), which was based on the film in which he appeared. Curtis was a supporting role in Osgood Fielding.
Curtis adored painting and painting as a second career in the early 1980s, beginning in the early 1980s. More than $25,000 a canvas now. In the last years of his life, he concentrated on drawing rather than movies. Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Magritte, and Magritte were all influences, according to Curtis. "I still make movies, but I am not that keen on them any more." "I paint all the time." In 2007, his painting The Red Table was on view in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. His works are also on view at the Tony Vanderploeg Gallery in Carmel, California.
Curtis expressed surprise at not being given an Academy award. Curtis was given the Sony Ericsson Lifetime Achievement Award in March 2006. He was also inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 and 1995, France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.