Biography: life and films
Tony Curtis was an American actor and producer whose birth name was Bernard Schwartz. He was born in New York City, New York, USA on 3rd June 1925 and died in Henderson, Nevada, USA on 29th September 2010, aged 85.His best films as an actor include Alexander Mackendrick's Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like It Hot (1959), Delbert Mann's The Outsider (1961), Max H. Boulois's Othello, el comando negro (1982) and Rob Epstein's The Celluloid Closet (1995).
Tony Curtis appeared in 99 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Rudolph Maté (4 films), Richard Quine (4), Blake Edwards (4), Joseph Pevney (3), Ulli Lommel (2), Robert Mulligan (2), Richard Fleischer (2), Norman Thaddeus Vane (2), Michael Gordon (2), Ken Hughes (2), Hy Averback (2) and Alexander Mackendrick (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (38 films), comedy (28), comedy-romance (10), comedy-drama (10), War (9), Thriller (9), romance (8), crime-thriller (5), Horror (5), Documentary (5), Western (4), Fantasy (4), Biography (4) and history (2).
Our average rating for Tony Curtis over all films is: 2.8
Filmography
Key: a = actor
City Across the River (1949) [a]
Criss Cross (1949) [a]
How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border (1949) [a]
Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949) [a]
The Lady Gambles (1949) [a]
Francis (1950) [a]
I Was a Shoplifter (1950) [a]
Kansas Raiders (1950) [a]
Sierra (1950) [a]
Winchester '73 (1950) [a]
Woman in Hiding (1950) [a]
The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951) [a]
Flesh and Fury (1952) [a]
No Room for the Groom (1952) [a]
Son of Ali Baba (1952) [a]
Forbidden (1953) [a]
Houdini (1953) [a]
The All American (1953) [a]
Beachhead (1954) [a]
Johnny Dark (1954) [a]
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954) [a]
Six Bridges to Cross (1955) [a]
So This Is Paris (1955) [a]
The Purple Mask (1955) [a]
The Rawhide Years (1955) [a]
The Square Jungle (1955) [a]
Trapeze (1956) [a]
Mister Cory (1957) [a]
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) [a]
The Midnight Story (1957) [a]
Kings Go Forth (1958) [a]
The Perfect Furlough (1958) [a]
The Vikings (1958) [a]
Operation Petticoat (1959) [a]
Spartacus (1960) [a]
The Rat Race (1960) [a]
Who Was That Lady? (1960) [a]
The Great Impostor (1961) [a]
The Outsider (1961) [a]
40 Pounds of Trouble (1962) [a]
Taras Bulba (1962) [a]
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) [a]
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) [a]
Goodbye Charlie (1964) [a]
Paris When It Sizzles (1964) [a]
Sex and the Single Girl (1964) [a]
Wild and Wonderful (1964) [a]
Boeing (707) Boeing (707) (1965) [a]
Chamber of Horrors (1966) [a]
Drop Dead Darling (1966) [a]
Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966) [a]
Don't Make Waves (1967) [a]
La Cintura di castità (1968) [a]
The Boston Strangler (1968) [a]
Monte Carlo or Bust (1969) [a]
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970) [a]
You Can't Win 'Em All (1970) [a]
Mission: Monte Carlo (1974) [a]
Lepke (1975) [a]
The Last Tycoon (1976) [a]
Sextette (1978) [a]
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978) [a]
The Manitou (1978) [a]
Double Take (1979) [a]
Title Shot (1979) [a]
It Rained All Night the Day I Left (1980) [a]
Little Miss Marker (1980) [a]
Othello, el comando negro (1982) [a]
BrainWaves (1983) [a]
Where Is Parsifal? (1983) [a]
Insignificance (1985) [a]
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985) [a]
Balboa (1986) [a]
Banter (1986) [a]
Club Life (1986) [a]
Der Passagier - Welcome to Germany (1988) [a]
Lobster Man from Mars (1989) [a]
Midnight (1989) [a]
Prime Target (1991) [a]
Center of the Web (1992) [a]
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time (1992) [a]
Naked in New York (1993) [a]
The Mummy Lives (1993) [a]
A Century of Cinema (1994) [a]
The Celluloid Closet (1995) [a]
The Immortals (1995) [a]
Alien X Factor (1997) [a]
Brittle Glory (1997) [a]
Hardball (1997) [a]
Louis & Frank (1998) [a]
Stargames (1998) [a]
Reflections of Evil (2002) [a]
David & Fatima (2008) [a]
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