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Real name: |
Bernard Schwartz |
| Birthdate: |
June 03, 1925 |
| Date of death: |
September 29, 2010 |
| Age: |
85 years |
| Country: |
 United States
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| Horoscope: |
Gemini |
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Tony Curtis Nominations & Awards
Academy Awards
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- Best Leading Actor NOMINATED
Golden Globes Awards
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- Best Leading Actor - Drama NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actor - Drama NOMINATED
BAFTA
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- Best Foreign Actor NOMINATED
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- Best Foreign Actor NOMINATED
Emmy
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- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie NOMINATED
Bernard Schwartz, better known as Tony Curtis, was an American Actor. He has nominated for an Academy Awards, two Golden Globes Awards and two BAFTA Awards. He's known for Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963), Operation Petticoat (1959) and Spartacus (1960).
All Movies of Tony Curtis
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Billy Wilder discusses his life and films in interviews filmed by Volker Schlondorff over two weeks in 1988.
Character:
Himself
(archive footage)
2006
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The CSI Nick Stokes is kidnapped while investigating a crime scene and buried alive in a glass casket by his kidnapper. The Las Vegas Police Department receives a package with a tape and a hardware to permit watch Nick inside the ...
2005
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From writer/director Ron Shelton, Woody Harrelson and Antonio Banderas star as best friends and profession al boxing rivals Vince Boudreau and Caesar Dominguez, both of whom haven't worked in years. Finally, from out of the blue t...
Character:
Ringside Fan
1999
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1998
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Author Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City) wrote Lily Tomlin's narration for this superb documentary, based on a book by the late Vito Russo, about Hollywood's treatment of homosexual characters in this century. Never pointing a ...
Character:
Self
1995
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Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, (watch for the facial expressions) and to whom you can turn to for help while facing life ('your parents, nyaa, I don't think ...
Character:
Carl Fisher
1993
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Tony Curtis plays a mummy who returns from the dead and becomes obsessed with a woman which he thinks is the reincarnation of his dead lover.
1993
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John Bloodstone is a cop who is put on suspension after he uses a blow torch to stop a group of hostage takers. Bloodstone's next assignment begins when his boss, Commissioner Garth, calls him in and introduces him to FBI agent Ha...
1991
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Young film student tries to sell his weird movie to a desparate film producer who is in need of a tax write-off. The producer screens the film "Lobster Man From Mars". What follows is one of the most bizarre and funny fi...
1989
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Tarzan goes to New York to rescue the chimp Cheetah, who has been captured by an evil animal experimenter. There, he teams up with Jane, a cab driver and daughter of an ex-cop private eye, who help Tarzan free Cheetah and his frie
1989
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Mr. Cornfield, a Hollywood film director, arrives in Berlin to shoot a film about an episode in the Holocaust.
Character:
Mr. Cornfield
1988
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An alcoholic partier becomes a paranoid maniac when a manuscript that predicts real-life horrors takes possession of his mind
1986
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Four 1950's cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joseph MacCarthy) who conceivably could have met and probably didn't, fictionally do in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually intrigu...
1985
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A man whose wife entertains eccentric individuals, has no other choice to avoid ruin than to sell a patent on laser beams he invented...
1984
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Millionaire gets involved in a real-estate scam.
1983
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The story of three Las Vegas showgirls, each at a different stage in her career.
1982
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1982
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Based on the novel by Agatha Christie. The year is 1953. The small English village of St. Mary Mead, home to Miss Jane Marple, is delighted when a big American movie company arrives to make a movie telling of the relationship betw...
Character:
Martin N. Fenn
1980
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This is the story of how one of the famous movie roles was cast. The role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
1980
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Karen Tandy enters a San Franisco hospital suffering from a growing tumor on her back. To the doctors think it's a living creature, a fetus is being born inside the tumor. To fortune teller Harry Erskine says it's nothing until hi...
1978
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Dan Tanna is a private investigator in the gambling town of Las Vegas, Nevada. Las Vegas can be seedy or glamorous, depending upon the point of view.
1978
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Marlo Manners is enjoying her honeymoon with Sir Michael Barrington, husband number 6. As luck would have it, an international conference is taking place in the same hotel and the Russian delegate (one of Marlo's former husbands) ...
Character:
Alexei Karansky
1978
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In this third film of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promoter/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a...
Character:
Marvin Lazar
1978
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While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova (Tony Curtis), the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Jacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Meanwhile, the Arabian Caliph and his wife are arriving in Venice for a s...
1977
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F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Character:
Rodriguez
1976
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Two former U.S. Army soldiers, Adam Dyer and Josh Corey, join a band of Turkish mercenaries in 1922 Turkey whom are hired by Osman Bey, a local governor, to escort his tree daughters to Smyran and to protect a gold shipment that i...
1970
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Boston, 1962. Several elderly women are strangled, apparently by the same unknown assailant. An investigation ensues, but clues lead nowhere. Then the strangler starts to attack younger women. John Bottomly (Henry Fonda) is assign...
Character:
Albert DeSalvo
1968
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For three nights of abstinence after their wedding with the youg virgin Boccadoro (Monica Vitti), hot-bloded Sir Guerraldo (Tony Curtis) is persuaded by many means to keep a cool head – apparently it was a Middle Ages ritual kno...
1967
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During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. She soon discovers Sc...
1966
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Nick has married several times, but all his rich wives were "accidently" killed after some time. Now he's married a young Italian widow, but it is not so easy to get rid of her, especially when she learns of his plans and tries to
Character:
Nick Johnson
1966
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A one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.
1966
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Living in Paris, american playboy Bernard Lawrence (Tony Curtis) has cleverly designed a system using the airline timetables to keep going three affairs with flight stewardesses. However, his life soon starts to descend into a sha...
1965
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Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile...
Character:
The Great Leslie
1965
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Using Helen Gurley Brown's book as a jump off point, we follow the adventures of a supermarket tabloid editor as he tries to parlay an interview with the author of the book into headlines and sales. Of course, a romantic entanglem
Character:
Bob Weston
1964
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Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time ...
Character:
Maurice /
Philippe - 2nd Policeman
1964
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Very much a product of its time with its swingin' sixties, playboy aura. Hollywood writer Charlie Sorel is murdered by film producer Leopold Sartori (Walter Matthau) when he catches Charlie with his wife. But the playboy is reinca...
Character:
George Tracy
1964
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Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her new husband.
1964
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Messenger asks a friend to check into a list of names before leaving on a trip. When his plane is blown out of the sky, the matter becomes more serious. As his friend checks into the list, each seems to have died in mysterious cir...
Character:
Organ Grinder
1963
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Host Henry Fonda follows the creation of the star system with Mary Pickford in the Silent Era through its demise in the early Sixties.
Character:
Self
(archive footage)
1963
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Dr. Josiah Newman runs the psychiatric unit of a U.S. Military Hospital during WWII. Short of help, Newman coerces newly arrived neurotic orderly Jackson Leibowitz to work in his ward. Leibowitz's scheming & humor quickly turn...
Character:
Cpl. Jackson 'Jake' Leibowitz
1963
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In the 16th century, a fierce Cossack chieftain (Yul Brynner) who has vowed to fight 'til the death to regain his lands from Polish invaders is confronted by his headstrong son (Tony Curtis), who is in love with a Polish girl.
Character:
Andrei Bulba
1962
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Based on a true story, a bright young man who hasn't the patience for the normal way of advancement finds that people rarely question you if your papers are in order. He becomes a marine, a monk, a surgeon onboard a Canadian Warsh...
1961
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Tony Curtis plays an Indian (Nicknamed "Chief" by other soldiers) who fights in WWII and helps to raise the flag at Iwo Jima.
Character:
Ira Hamilton Hayes
1961
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Real-life husband and wife Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh star as David and Ann Wilson. David is a university professor who is kissing one of his students when Ann walks in on them. She demands a divorce. David turns to his old frien...
1960
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The young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood star Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the stars working in Hollywood at the time.
1960
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Spartacus is a 1960 American historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the novel of the same name by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War. The film stars Kirk Douglas as...
Character:
Antoninus
1960
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Peter arrives at New York City with his sax in hand and high hopes for a career. He then meets Peggy, a dancer down on her luck who needs a place to stay. Ever the gentleman, Peter offers her space in his apartment and they string...
Character:
Pete Hammond Jr.
1960
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TV Series (1959-1960). 1 season. 33 episodes. An anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety broadcast in color.
Character:
The Juggler
1 episode, 1960
1959
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Two men (Lemmon and Curtis) hide from the mafia in an all girls band after they witness a murder, and find it hard to keep their cover as women when they meet Sugar Kane (Marilyn).
Character:
Joe /
Josephine /
Shell Oil Junior
1959
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A submarine newly commissioned is damaged in the opening days of WW II. A captain, looking for a command insists he can get it to a dockyard and captain it. Going slowly to this site, they find a stranded group of Army nurses and ...
Character:
Lt. JG Nicholas Holden
1959
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Two American soldiers, fighting in the south of France during World War II, find their friendship torn apart over the love for a woman they meet while on leave. As Nazi bombs drop all around, Frank Sinatra and Tony Curtis must bat...
Character:
Cpl. Britt Harris
1958
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Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. When the throne of Northumbria in Britain becomes free for the taking, t...
1958
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To pacify 104 sex-starved male soldiers building an Arctic radar base, Army psychologist Vicki Loren suggests choosing one by lot to have a "perfect furlough" as selected by the men: three weeks in Paris with their favor...
1958
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This 1958 variation on Huck Finn's adventures with Jim finds a white convict (Tony Curtis) chained to a black convict (Sidney Poitier) as they both escape their captors. With each man literally stuck with the other, racial conflic...
Character:
John 'Joker' Jackson
1958
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Cory, an ambitious Chicago slum kid with a knack for gambling, gets a busboy job at a posh Wisconsin resort...
1957
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A columnist (Burt Lancaster) and a press agent (Tony Curtis) tear into the maelstrom of midtown Manhattan's night creatures in a sinister game that involves money, power and ultimately survival.
Character:
Sidney Falco
1957
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Former circus aerialist Burt Lancaster was the logical choice to star in the Technicolor drama Trapeze. Lancaster plays a crippled acrobat, disabled after attempting to perform a dangerous triple mid-air somersault. Tony Curtis co...
Character:
Tino Orsini
1956
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Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing. His cop friend McBride finances him; ex-con Bernie Browne trains him. Three years later...
1955
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Three sailors on leave (Joe, Al and Davy) head for Paris with one thing on their minds. Joe pursues chanteuse Colette D'Avril who proves to be more than she appears; Davy is pursued by sexy cashier Yvonne; but the blonde Al rescue...
1955
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Eddie Darrow has been hired by Philadelphia mobster Barney Pendleton to locate Christine Lawrence (Eddie's ex-lover and widow of Barney's former associate) and bring her home. Eddie tracks her down in Macao, where he saves the lif...
1953
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1951
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In the Old West, cowboy Lin McAdam wins a valuable Winchester 1873 repeating rifle in a shooting contest - which the runner-up contestant instantly steals. This leads to a rousing series of adventures for McAdam, as he attempts to...
1950
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