Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925 - September 29, 2010) was an American actor with a career that spanned six decades, achieving the height of his popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in more than 100 films, in roles covering a wide range of genres. In his later years, Curtis made numerous television appearances. Tony Curtis (1925-2010) Actor Producer Soundtrack IMDbPro Starmeter Top 5,000 815 Play trailer 0:52 Hardball (1997) 36 Videos 99+ Photos Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, the eldest of three children of Helen (Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz, Jewish immigrants from Hungary.
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A magyarsága miatt verték meg kisgyerekként Tony Curtist. Mindenki magyarul beszélt körülötte, így hatéves koráig azt hitte Magyarországon élnek. Pedig egy emigráns család gyermekeként New Yorkban látta meg a napvilágot Tony Curtis, csak még Bernard Schwartz néven. 1925-ben pont ezen a napon, június 3-án. Az édesapja a. Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Screenplay by Waldo Salt and Karl Tunberg, based on the novel by Nikolai Gogol. Starring Yul Brynner, Tony Curtis, Sam Wanamaker, Brad Dexter, Guy Rolfe, Perry. Tony Curtis (born June 3, 1925, Bronx, New York, U.S.—died September 29, 2010, Henderson, Nevada) American actor whose handsome looks first propelled him to fame in the 1950s.He won critical plaudits as well as broad popularity in both dramatic roles and comic performances. Schwartz grew up in the Bronx, where he experienced a troubled home life and became a member of a notorious street gang. Biography Tony Curtis Jump to Edit Overview Born June 3, 1925 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA Died September 29, 2010 · Henderson, Nevada, USA (cardiopulmonary arrest) Birth name Bernard Herschel Schwartz Nickname Boinie Height 5′ 9″ (1.75 m) Mini Bio
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(1925-2010) Who Was Tony Curtis? Tony Curtis's piercing blue eyes and good looks gained him a great deal of attention at a young age. After enlisting in the U.S. Navy and serving in World. The Defiant Ones: Directed by Stanley Kramer. With Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Cara Williams, Theodore Bikel. Two chained-together escaped convicts, White and Black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture. Bruce Goldstein remembers when he realized that Tony Curtis had "a spiel.". In 2002 Mr. Goldstein, the resident revivalist at the Film Forum, the theater complex on Houston Street where old has always been the new new, arranged a screening of "Sweet Smell of Success."Mr. Curtis, who had played the infinitely sleazy, infinitely obsequious press agent Sidney Falco, was to introduce the. He was 85. The cause was cardiac arrest, the Clark County coroner said. Mr. Curtis, one of the last survivors of Hollywood's golden age, became a respected dramatic actor, earning an Oscar.
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Tony Curtis molded himself from a 1950s movie heartthrob to a respected actor, showing a determined streak that served him well with such films as "Sweet Smell of Success," "The Defiant Ones" and "Some Like It Hot." The Oscar-nominated actor died about 9:25 p.m. PDT Wednesday at his Henderson, Nev., home of a cardiac arrest, Clark County. Transcript. Tony Curtis has died at age 85. The actor played comedy well, but had many serious roles in films such as Spartacus and The Defiant Ones. He might be best remembered for the cross.
Tony Curtis was an American cultural icon and artist. Widely recognized for his acting career, he also painted brightly colored still lifes, landscapes, and portraits. His small-scale works were influenced by the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and especially Henri Matisse.. "When I paint, I don't paint shapes, I paint colors," Curtis once said. Just a few months before Tony died, he rewrote his will — intentionally disinheriting his kids, leaving the bulk of his estimated $60-million estate to his fifth wife, Jill Curtis (now Curtis.
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Fri 7 Aug 2009 11.28 EDT. It was while filming Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot in 1958 that Tony Curtis made his infamous remark that shooting a love scene with co-star Marilyn Monroe was "like. Tony Curtis Facts 1. He Grew Up Hungry. Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz in 1925 and raised in a tiny room at the back of his father's tailor shop in the Bronx. It was a hard childhood for the Schwartz family. At one point, Curtis's parents had to send their sons to an orphanage for a month because they had no food to feed their own child.
