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[h3]Tony Curtis, real name Bernard Schwartz, was born one of three sons of a tailor in the Bronx, of Jewish-Hungarian stock.[/h3]

A truck killed his brother, Julius, in 1938, by which time the young Curtis had already joined a street gang.

Curtis joined the Navy in 1943. After the Second World War, he joined the Dramatic Workshop in the City College of New York. In 1948, with the prospect of a job offer from Universal, he moved to California.

His screen debut was in 'Criss Cross' in 1948, initially billed as James Curtis, before changing to Anthony. Moving his family to California the next year, he married top actress Janet Leigh in 1951, the first of many failed marriages.

Curtis has been married six times. He fathered actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis with Janet Leigh. He has also been married to Jill Vandenberg Curtis (1998—), Lisa Deutsch (1993–1994), Andrea Savio (1984–1992), Leslie Allen (1968–1982) and Christine Kaufmann (1963–1967).

Tragically, his son, Nicholas (with Leslie Allen), died of a heroin overdose in 1994 at the age of 23.

Curtis took varied work, making it big with 'The Sweet Smell of Success', in 1957, and the Sidney Poitier film, 'The Defiant Ones', in 1958, for which he won an Oscar nomination.

His enduring fame rests upon his starring role in Billy Wilder’s 1959 classic, 'Some Like It Hot', where he showed off his comedic skills alongside Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon. He also shone throughout the next decade in films such as 'The Vikings' (1958), 'Spartacus' (1960) and 'The Boston Strangler' (1968).

Curtis was also famous for his friendship with Hollywood’s ‘Rat Pack’: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Junior, and he appeared in several Rat Pack films, such as 'Pepe', in 1960.

In the early 1970s, Curtis appeared on British TV in 'The Persuaders', and wrote his first novel, 'Kid Andrew Cody & Julie Sparrow', in 1977.

Curtis has been active in promoting Jewish-Hungarian culture and founded the Emanuel Foundation for Hungarian Culture.

After undergoing a cardiac bypass operation in 1994, Curtis is still working and writing.
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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 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)
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