Tony Curtis is the stage name of Bernard Schwartz (b. June 3 1925 in the Bronx, New York), 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 TV series The Persuaders. He made his screen debut uncredited in Criss Cross playing a rhumba dancer.

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

Filmography

• Criss Cross (1949)
• City 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 (1953)
• All American (1953)
• Forbidden (1953)
• Beachhead (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)
• 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 (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)
• (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 (R-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

• His official website, a "Virtual Art Gallery"
• Biography and Naval service from the California Center for Military History website