Tony Curtis

See also: Curtis

Tony Curtis , of his true name Bernard Schwartz , is an American actor , born the June 3rd 1925 in the Bronx, with New York (the United States).

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He is the son of Emmanuel and Helen Schwartz, a family of Juif S Hungarian of Bronx. Made famous for its physique of young first and its accent typically New Yorkean, its name will remain associated with its interpretation in Some like it hot with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. It appeared in more than one hundred films since 1949.

Regarded at his beginnings as a beautiful child moreover, the actor ended up being the proof of his talent in films of exception as in The Sweet Smell off Success with Burt Lancaster and in his role of an escaped prisoner of prison connected with Sidney Poitier in The Defying Ones, which was worth to him a nomination with the Oscar S.

Curtis also turned for television, in particular with Roger Moore in the series Amicalement yours…, then with McCoy in Vega$. It lent its voice to the character of “Stony Curtis” in Guest star in Flinstones.

Since the beginning of the years 1980, Curtis carries out one second career of painter.

Curtis has its star on the Walk off Famed of Hollywood Boulevard and was made knight of the Ordre of Arts and the Letters in 1995 in France.

Its marriages

Tony Curtis was married six times. His first wife, the most known by far, was the actress Janet Leigh (1927-2004), with which it remained married 11 years, and with whom it had two girls: Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis, both actresses.

He was also married with:

  • Jill Vandenberg Curtis (November 6th, 1998 -)

  • LISA Deutsch (February 28th, 1993 - 1994); divorced
  • Andrea Savio (1984-1992); divorced
  • Leslie Allen (April 20th, 1968-1982); divorced, two children
  • Christine Kaufmann (February 8th, 1963 - 1967); divorced, two children

Information

  • Tony Curtis currently resides at Las Vegas
  • It was useful in U.S. Navy between 1942 and 1945, in a submarine
  • Curtis militated with the actress Bo Derek against the demolition of the horses
  • Tony Curtis contributed financially to the restoration of the Grande synagog of Budapest.

Catalog of films

It also turned of the televised series:

See too

External bonds

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