Tony Curtis

About

Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; 1925-2010) was an American actor whose career spanned six decades, with his greatest popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. He earned his only Oscar nomination for The Defiant Ones (1958) alongside Sidney Poitier, and starred in Some Like It Hot (1959), which the AFI ranked the funniest American film ever made. In later life he was also a prolific painter whose work entered the permanent collection of MoMA.

ranking of the film Some Like It Hot on the AFI 100 Years...100 Laughs list (funniest American films)

100+

films made during career

decade of active acting career (1948-2008)

painting acquired by MoMA New York (Red Table, 2005)

What's new

2010-09
Tony Curtis died on September 29, 2010, at the age of 85 in Henderson, Nevada, from cardiac arrest.

Tracks

Někdo to rád horké (Some Like It Hot)Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy, AFI ranked it 1st among the funniest American films of all time

Spoutaní (The Defiant Ones)1958 drama, Curtis's only Oscar nomination for Best Actor

Sladký pach úspěchu (Sweet Smell of Success)1957 drama, Curtis's first major critical recognition of his acting talent

SpartacusStanley Kubrick's 1960 epic historical drama

Bostonský škrtič (The Boston Strangler)1968 thriller, considered his last major dramatic role

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Some Like It Hot

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A classic 1959 American comedy about two musicians who go undercover in an all-girl band during Prohibition. A cult film starring Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.

cinema

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