Tony Curtis  

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Tony Curtis (June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American film actor. He played a variety of roles, from light comedy, such as the musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot, to serious dramatic roles, such as an escaped convict in The Defiant Ones, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Since 1949, he appeared in more than 100 films and made frequent television appearances.

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) (Credited as Anthony Curtis)
• 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)
• The All-American (1953)
• Forbidden (1953)
• Beachhead (film) (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 Impostor (1961)
• The Outsider (1961), as Ira Hayes
• 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)
• Monte Carlo or Bust (1969)
• You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
• Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
• The Persuaders! (1971–1972)
• Mission: Monte Carlo (1974)
• Lepke (1975)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1975)
• London Conspiracy (1976)
• The Last Tycoon (1976)
• Casanova & Co. (1977)
• Sextette (1978)
• The Manitou (1978)
• The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)
• The Users (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)
• The Scarlett O'Hara War (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)
• Tarzan in Manhattan (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)
• Roseanne - TV Series (1996) (role as Hal, ballroom dance studio instructor)
• 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)
• Where's Marty? (2006)
• The Blacksmith and the Carpenter (2007) (voice)
• David & Fatima (2008)
• The Jill & Tony Curtis Story (2008) (documentary feature)