Tony Curtis's biography

Bernard Herschel Schwartz is 85 years old film actor born at New York City. He was born on Wednesday 3rd of June 1925. Tony is often nicknamed as Boinie. According to year of birth 1925 he belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 3rd of June means Tony is Gemini. Gemini is a dual sign of Zodiac Belt. One born with this rising sign is very dual and creative in nature with lots of verbosity. They are the most expressive people as they love talking.He was married 6 times.

Tony is native hungarian speaker. He is white american. He is citizen of United States of America. He is jewish. Tony´s primary profession is to be film actor. You can know him also as writer, painter, television actor. Tony is recently known as actor.

Tony Curtis's dad

Tony Curtis's father's name is Emanuel Schwartz.

Tony Curtis's mom

Tony Curtis's mother's name is Helen Klein.

Tony Curtis's family

Tony Curtis's ex wifes

Janet Leigh

Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh have been together since 1951 for 11 years. She is known as character actor. His ex wife was born on Wednesday 6th of July 1927 in Merced. His ex wife died on Sunday 3rd of October 2004 in Beverly Hills. Janet Leigh was 79 years old, when this happened.

Christine Kaufmann

Tony Curtis and Christine Kaufmann have been together since 1963 for 5 years. Christine is known as ballet dancer. His ex wife was born on Thursday 11th of January 1945. His ex wife died on Tuesday 28th of March 2017. Christine Kaufmann was 92 years old, when this happened.

Leslie Allen

Tony Curtis and Leslie Allen have been together since 1968 for 14 years.

Andrea Savio

Tony Curtis and Andrea Savio have been together since 1984 for 8 years.

Lisa Deutsch

Tony Curtis and Lisa Deutsch have been together since 1993 for a year.

Jill Vandenberg

Tony Curtis and Jill Vandenberg have been together since 1998 for 12 years.

He has 3 daughters.

Tony Curtis's daughter: Kelly Curtis

Tony Curtis's daughter's name is Kelly Curtis. She is known as actor. His daughter was born on Sunday 17th of June 1956 in Santa Monica.

Tony Curtis's daughter: Jamie Lee Curtis

Tony Curtis's daughter's name is Jamie Lee Curtis. She is known as actor. Tony´s daughter was born on Saturday 22nd of November 1958.

Tony Curtis's daughter: Allegra Curtis

Tony Curtis's daughter's name is Allegra Curtis. She is known as actor. Tony´s daughter was born on Monday 11th of July 1966 in Los Angeles.

Tony Curtis's schools

We found 3 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: New School, City College of New York, Seward Park High School.

Detailed informations about his schools

He studied high school - Seward Park Campus, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

Tony studied university - City College (CUNY) Of The City University Of New York, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

Tony Curtis's career

His main focus is to be film actor. He is famous thanks to Some Like It Hot. You could see him also in Sweet Smell of Success, The Persuaders!.

Is Tony Curtis gay ?

Tony is known to be straight.

Tony Curtis's girlfriend

Petra Scharbach

Tony Curtis and Petra Scharbach have been together. She is known as painter. His girlfriend was born on Sunday 21st of October 1962 in Frankfurt am Main.

How did Tony Curtis die

Tony died on on Wednesday 29th of September 2010 when he was 85 years old at Henderson. Tony Curtiss death was caused by cardiac arrest. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Tony Curtis's Awards

Tony received award for Bambi Award for work Sweet Smell of Success in 1958
Tony received award for Bambi Award for work The Persuaders! in 1973

Tony Curtis's Nominations

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor for work The Defiant Ones in 1959
Tony was nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for work The Defiant Ones in 1959
He was nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for work Sweet Smell of Success in 1958

What else you don't know about Tony Curtis ?

His middle name is Herschel.

What Tony Curtis has done for a first time

Like many before and after, he changed his name--from Bernard Schwartz--partly in response to the anti-Semitism that was prevalent in the country and in Hollywood when he was first starting out.
Admitted that he was largely estranged from all six of his children, including Jamie Lee Curtis, one of his children by first wife Janet Leigh.
Started a new career as an artist and had his first solo exhibition in Hawaii in mid 1987 earning him over a million dollars.

Tony Curtis's quotes

They gave me away as a prize once--a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize--a new stove.
I ran around with a lump in my pants, chased all the girls. This is what I reflected on the screen. There wasn't anything deeper or less deep than that.
What's the secret to a long and happy life? Young women's saliva!
[asked who the most attractive person he ever worked with was] I am.
I wouldn't be seen dead with a woman old enough to be my wife.
I had to be careful where I went because I was a Jew, because I was young and because I was handsome. It made me wiry and erratic and paranoid, which is what I still am. Always on guard.
Hollywood . . . the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.
Comedy is the most honest way for an actor to earn his living. People would rather laugh than cry. The quickest way to change drama into comedy is simply to speed up the film.
Fame is another profession. I feel that I have two professions, I have the profession of being an actor and I have the profession of being famous.
I was 22 when I arrived in Hollywood in 1948. I had more action than Mount Vesuvius--men, women, animals! I loved it too. I participated where I wanted to and didn't where I didn't. I've always been open about it.
My father was a tailor. I used to deliver for him. I'd have to hold the clothes up high to keep them from dragging on the ground.
[on Marilyn Monroe] I'm in love with her now. I've loved her all these years.
[on Marilyn Monroe on the set of Some Like It Hot (1959)] I knew there was something disturbing her. For some inexplicable reason, she was going down the wrong path and no one knew it.
[about Spartacus (1960)] Kirk Douglas is tough, but Stanley Kubrick was tougher!
Well, on the one hand you could say I was tremendously blessed, on the other I was definitely cursed.
[about his schizophrenic mother's influence on his childhood] Yes, yes, that had a lot to do with it. I got nothing from her. I got slapped around is what I got. But I liked to be with women. I never did it with dogs or elephants or men. Only with women.
I was the best-looking kid in town. It's not what you have but what you do with it that counts.
It's rather nice not to be waiting for a script to come through the door, and even if it did, I would turn it down.
[about his sixth wife Jillie] She's the only one who didn't want me to change after I married her.
[on finally forgiving his mother long after she died] We could have all turned out like her. She cleaned houses in Hungary from when she was six or seven. She had no opportunities.
I realized if I could [have sex with] a girl . . . a woman has accepted me. The main force in me was to be accepted by others. Not education, not money in my pocket, nothing except to be accepted by a girl.
[in 2008] I'm just wondering how many more years I have. I don't have 20. I don't have 15. How many years do I have? I don't know, but I plan to reinvent myself as an 84-year-old, as an 85-year-old man who can do anything and everything.
[on Brokeback Mountain (2005)] This picture is not as important as we make it. It's nothing unique. The only thing unique about it is they put it on the screen. And they make 'em gay cowboys. Howard Hughes (I) and John Wayne wouldn't like it.
[on his troubled relationship with daughter Jamie Lee Curtis] I have a feeling she wanted to teach me a lesson for abandoning her mother and her. But I couldn't be with Janet Leigh anymore. She was disappearing into her own madnesses.
[on dying] I may have them take my ashes and spread them all over Las Vegas!
[on the long-running feud with daughter Jamie Lee Curtis] What am I going to do? God bless her, I wish her the best. If she can't forgive me, then get another father.
[on Cary Grant] The greatest movie actor of all time.
[on today's actors, starting with Brad Pitt] That Pitt fellow--what's his name? He hasn't got it. Now, Robert Downey Jr.--I think he might have something.
One of the big reasons I started using cocaine was that I was told it was great for sex. It didn't make me superhuman in the longevity department, but it certainly did make my sexual experiences more intense.
[on Marlon Brando] He was an interesting man, different, a genius in the way he thought.
[on his love for the ladies] Listen, we all do. I tell ya, there isn't a guy I met that wouldn't love to jump on a beautiful woman without knowing her name. And if that's what you call womanizing, then call me the King.
I was resented and hated because I was so good-looking and Jewish. It's true. This is not paranoia. I think that because of the Iraq war, anti-Semitism is on the increase again.
[advice to George Michael after his 1998 arrest for lewd conduct] Keep smiling.
Don't listen to them when they say don't drink, or drink very little, don't smoke, don't eat too much, don't eat badly, don't get fat, don't get ugly, and pissed off that life is passing you by. There's no such animal, my friend.
Here in America, you have to die before they say something nice about you.
I have met every President of the United States from [John F. Kennedy] on, except [Richard Nixon].
Painting is more meaningful to me than any performance I've ever given.
I got a lot of girls while I was at the peak. If I didn't get them, I got their stand-ins.
God is great, he won't hurt us, 'cause he looks like Tony Curtis.
[on Don't Make Waves (1967)] The plot was utterly ridiculous, but I agreed to appear in the film because I got a percentage of the gross.
[on his second wife, Christine Kaufmann] I should have never let her go.
[on his early years in showbiz] I was a million-to-one shot, the least likely to succeed. I wasn't low man on the totem pole, I was under the totem pole, in a sewer, tied to a sack.

Tony Curtis's height, weight, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Tony Curtis looks. We will focus on Tony´s height, weight, body shape, eye color and hair color. Tony is tall as 6' 0" (183 cm). Tony weights 168lbs (76 kg). Body build is athletic. His eyes are tinted blue. Tony´s hair is shade of black.

Tony Curtis