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Tony Curtis is the stage name of Bernard Schwartz
(born June 3, 1925 in The Bronx, New York to
Jewish immigrants from Hungary), an actor who has
appeared in over 100 films since 1949.  Curtis has
also appeared frequently on television; he
co-starred with Roger Moore in the  television
program|TV series The Persuaders!.  He made his
screen debut uncredited in Criss Cross (1949
movie)|Criss Cross playing a rhumba dancer.He also
did the voice of "Stony Curtis" as a guest star on
The Flintstones.

Since at least the early 1980s Curtis has had a
second career as a Painting|painter.

Curtis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
and received the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et
des Lettres in 1995.

He has been married five times; his first wife was
actress Janet Leigh, with whom he fathered
actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis.  He
was also married to actress Christine Kaufmann in
the 1960s. He currently resides in Las Vegas,
Nevada.

==Filmography==



*Criss Cross (1949 movie)|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 (movie) (1953)
*All American (1953)
*Forbidden (1953)
*Beachrock (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 Imposter (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)
*Vega$ (1978-1981) (TV Series)
*Double Take (1979)
*Title Shot (1979)
*Little Miss Marker (1980)
*It Rained All Night the Day I Left (1980)
*The Mirror Crack'd (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 (film)|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)

==Politics==
Curtis and actress-activist Bo Derek met with
Representative Jack Kingston
(United_States_Republican_Party|R-Georgia (U.S.
state)|GA) in Washington, D.C., in May 2004 to
discuss protecting horses.  The relevant bill is
H.R. 857, The American Horse Slaughter Prevention
Act.

==External links==
* http://www.tonycurtis.com/ His official website,
a "Virtual Art Gallery"
*
http://www.oralhistoryproject.com/TonyCurtis1.html
Biography and
http://www.oralhistoryproject.com/tcurtis_navy.htm
l Naval service from the California Center for
Military History website
* imdb name|id=0000348|name=Tony Curtis
* http://www.thegoldenyears.org/curtis.html
Classic Movies (1939 - 1969): Tony Curtis