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London Conspiracy
1974
as Danny Wilde
Tony Curtis
Also known as: Anthony Curtis, T. Curtis
Acting
Born:June 3, 1925
Died:September 29, 2010(aged 85)
Birthplace:Bronx, New York, USA
Height:5'9" (175 cm)
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (155 movies)
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Mafia Princess
1986
as Sam Giancana
9.0
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Hugh Hefner: American Playboy
2003
as Self
9.0
9.0
Rat Pack
2022
as Self (archive footage)
9.0
9.0
The Third Girl from the Left
1973
as Joey Jordan
8.5
8.5
So This Is Paris
1954
as Joe Maxwell
8.5
8.5
The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006
as Self
8.2
8.2
The Persuaders!
1973
as Danny Wilde
8.1
8.1
Some Like It Hot
1959
as Joe (Josephine)
8.0
8.0
A Century of Cinema
1994
as Self
8.0
8.0
Portrait of a Showgirl
1982
as Joey DeLeon
8.0
8.0
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954
as Self
7.8
7.8
Rosemary's Baby
1968
as Donald Baumgart (voice) (uncredited)
7.6
7.6
Sweet Smell of Success
1957
Executive Producer
7.5
7.5
Spartacus
1960
as Antoninus
7.5
7.5
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
1986
as Self
7.3
7.3
Winchester '73
1950
as Doan
7.3
7.3
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
7.2
7.2
Operation Petticoat
1959
as Lieutenant Nicholas Holden
7.2
7.2
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
2012
as Self (archive footage)
7.1
7.1
The Celluloid Closet
1996
as Self
7.1
7.1
The Defiant Ones
1958
as John 'Joker' Jackson
7.1
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The Great Race
1965
as The Great Leslie
7.1
7.1
Criss Cross
1949
as Gigolo (uncredited)
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7.0
The Vikings
1958
Executive Producer
7.0
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Amicalement vôtre : Hollywood au service de sa Majesté
2017
as Danny Wilde
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7.0
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
2012
as Self
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The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006
as Self
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7.0
Tony Curtis on 'Some Like It Hot'
2001
as Self
6.9
6.9
The Great Impostor
1960
as Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. / Martin Donner / Dr. Gilbert / Ben. W. Stone / Dr. Joseph Mornay / Robert Boyd Hammnd
6.8
6.8
The Count of Monte-Cristo
1975
as Fernand Morcerf Mondego
6.7
6.7
The Outsider
1961
as Ira Hamilton Hayes
6.7
6.7
The Perfect Furlough
1958
as Cpl. Paul Hodges
6.7
6.7
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
1966
6.7
6.7
The Boston Strangler
1968
as Albert DeSalvo
6.6
6.6
The Rat Race
1960
as Pete Hammond Jr.
6.6
6.6
The List of Adrian Messenger
1963
as Organ Grinder
6.6
6.6
Captain Newman, M.D.
1963
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
Little Miss Marker
1980
as Blackie
6.5
6.5
Reflections of Evil
2002
as Host
6.5
6.5
Houdini
1953
as Harry Houdini
6.4
6.4
Sex and the Single Girl
1964
Executive Producer
6.4
6.4
Insignificance
1985
as The Senator
6.3
6.3
Boeing, Boeing
1965
as Bernard Lawrence
6.3
6.3
The Last Tycoon
1976
as Rodriguez
6.3
6.3
Taras Bulba
1962
as Andrei Bulba
6.3
6.3
Wild and Wonderful
1964
as Terry Williams
6.3
6.3
Who Was That Lady?
1960
as David Wilson
6.3
6.3
Paris When It Sizzles
1964
as Actor Portraying Maurice or Philippe (uncredited)
6.2
6.2
Trapeze
1956
as Tino Orsini
6.2
6.2
The Black Shield of Falworth
1954
as Myles Falworth
6.2
6.2
Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949
as Joey Hyatt (as Anthony Curtis)
6.2
6.2
Six Bridges to Cross
1955
as Jerry Florea
6.1
6.1
The Mirror Crack'd
1980
as Martin N. Fenn
6.1
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The Scarlett O'Hara War
1980
as David O. Selznick
6.1
6.1
Flesh and Fury
1952
as Paul Callan
6.0
6.0
The Midnight Story
1957
as Joe Martini
6.0
6.0
Roxanne's Best Christmas Ever
1998
as Bernard (voice)
6.0
6.0
Sporting Chance
1975
as Danny Wilde
6.0
6.0
Kings Go Forth
1958
as Caporal Britt Harris
6.0
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Thanksgiving Day
1990
as Max Schloss
6.0
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Rescued from the Closet
2001
as Self
6.0
6.0
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995
as Self
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6.0
Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
2001
as Self
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6.0
Forbidden
1953
as Eddie Darrow
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Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten
2006
as Self (archive footage)
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6.0
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
as Self
5.9
5.9
Sparky's Magic Piano
1987
5.9
5.9
The Lady Gambles
1949
as Bellboy (as Anthony Curtis)
5.9
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Mission: Monte Carlo
1974
as Danny Wilde
5.9
5.9
The Square Jungle
1955
as Eddie Quaid / Packy Glennon
5.9
5.9
You Can't Win 'Em All
1970
as Adam Dyer
5.8
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Kansas Raiders
1950
as Kit Dalton
5.8
5.8
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969
as Chester Schofield
5.8
5.8
Goodbye Charlie
1964
as George Wellington Tracy
5.7
5.7
Murder in Three Acts
1986
as Charles Cartwright
5.7
5.7
The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
1988
as Mr. Cornfield
5.7
5.7
Mister Cory
1957
as Cory
5.6
5.6
Arrivederci, Baby!
1966
as Nick Johnson
5.6
5.6
Beachhead
1954
as Burke
5.6
5.6
The Immortals
1995
as Dominic
5.5
5.5
The Rawhide Years
1956
as Ben Matthews
5.5
5.5
City Across the River
1949
as Mitch (as Anthony Curtis)
5.5
5.5
Francis
1950
as Captain Jones
5.5
5.5
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
1966
Executive Producer
5.5
5.5
No Room for the Groom
1952
as Alvah Morrell
5.5
5.5
The Re-Inforcer
1951
as Baffo
5.5
5.5
Play It to the Bone
1999
as Tony Curtis (Ringside Fan)
5.4
5.4
Son of Ali Baba
1952
as Kashma Baba
5.4
5.4
The Manitou
1978
as Harry Erskine
5.3
5.3
Chamber of Horrors
1966
as Mr. Julian
5.3
5.3
Sierra
1950
as Brent Coulter
5.3
5.3
I Was a Shoplifter
1950
as Pepe
5.2
5.2
Walter and Carlo in America
1989
as WIlly La Rouge
5.2
5.2
40 Pounds of Trouble
1962
as Steve McCluskey
5.1
5.1
Don't Make Waves
1967
Executive Producer
5.1
5.1
The Prince Who Was a Thief
1951
as Julna
5.1
5.1
Lobster Man from Mars
1990
as J.P. Shelldrake
5.0
5.0
The All American
1953
as Nick Bonelli
5.0
5.0
The Purple Mask
1955
as Rene de Traviere / The Purple Mask
5.0
5.0
Johnny Dark
1954
as Johnny Dark
5.0
5.0
David & Fatima
2008
as Mr. Schwartz
5.0
5.0
Allen in Movieland
1955
as Self
5.0
5.0
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970
as Shannon Gambroni
4.8
4.8
It Rained All Night the Day I Left
1980
as Robert Talbot
4.7
4.7
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
1978
as Marvin Lazar
4.7
4.7
Banter
1986
as Charles Foster
4.7
4.7
Christmas in Connecticut
1992
as Alexander Yardley
4.6
4.6
People, Hopes, Medals
1960
as Self
4.5
4.5
Lepke
1975
as Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter
4.5
4.5
Prime Target
1991
as Copella
4.4
4.4
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
1992
as Self
4.4
4.4
Naked in New York
1993
as Carl Fisher
4.2
4.2
Bandit: Beauty and the Bandit
1994
as Lucky Bergstrom
4.0
4.0
Bounty Hunters 2: Hardball
1997
as Wald
3.9
3.9
BrainWaves
1983
as Dr. Clavius
3.9
3.9
The Mummy Lives
1993
as Aziru / Dr. Mohassid
3.8
3.8
On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
1967
as Guerrando da Montone
3.8
3.8
Tarzan in Manhattan
1989
as Archimedes Porter
3.7
3.7
Sextette
1978
as Alexei Karansky
3.5
3.5
Casanova & Co.
1977
as Giacomo Casanova / Giacomino
3.4
3.4
Club Life
1986
as Hector
3.3
3.3
Meet Danny Wilson
1952
as Nightclub Patron
3.0
3.0
Where Is Parsifal?
1984
as Parsifal Katzanella-Boden
3.0
3.0
Center of the Web
1992
as Stephen Moore
2.5
2.5
Balboa
1983
as Ernie Stoddard
2.3
2.3
Black Commando
1982
as Col. Iago
2.1
2.1
Stargames
1998
as King Fendel
2.0
2.0
Midnight
1989
as Mr. B
2.0
2.0
Hollywood Legenden
2004
as Self
1.0
1.0
Louis & Frank
1998
as Lenny Star Springer
1.0
1.0
Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration
1979
as Self
1.0
1.0
The Users
1978
as Randy Brent
1.0
1.0
The Jill & Tony Curtis Story
2008
The Switch
1976
as Danny Wilde
Inmates: A Love Story
1981
as Flanagan
Come Back Little Shiksa
1952
The Million Dollar Face
1981
as Chester Masterson
Death Becomes Me
1979
as Danny Wilde/Aunt Sophie Schwartz
The Masqueraders
1980
as Danny Wilde
Title Shot
1979
as Frank Renzetti
The Last Appointment!
1977
as Danny Wilde
How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border
1949
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
1991
as Narrator (voice) / Self
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
2010
as Self
Tony Curtis erzählt...
2010
as Self
The World's Most Beautiful Girls
1953
as Self
Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood
1954
An Eye for an Eye
1952
The Continued Adventures of Reptile Man
1997
as Jack Steele
Nightmare
1956
as Tony
Fairfax Avenue
1951
Half Nelson
1985
That's Insignificance
2011
as Self
Norman Jewison, Film Maker
1971
as Self (uncredited)
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