Tony Curtis, actual name is Bernard Schwartz. Tony Curtis was born on June 3, 1925, to Hungarian Jewish immigrants Helen and Emanuel Schwartz. Curtis' dad belongs to a tailor shop, and he and his family dwelled behind the enterprise in a cramped apartment. His parents dozed in one room, and Curtis distributed the other with his two male siblings, Julius and Robert. Curtis' mother endured from schizophrenia, and often trounces the boys. Tony Curtis was an American movie player whose vocation spanned six decades, but had his utmost attractiveness throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted on in over 100 movies in functions covering a broad variety of genres, from lightweight comical presentation to grave drama. In his subsequent years, Curtis made many TV appearances.
Although his early movie functions were partially the outcome of his good examines, by the subsequent half of the 1950's he became a prominent and powerful computer display presence. He started verifying himself to be a fine spectacular player, having the variety to proceed in many spectacular and comical presentation roles. In his soonest components he acted on in a string of mediocre movies, encompassing swashbucklers, westerns, lightweight comical presentation, sports movies, and a musical. He won his first grave acknowledgement as a accomplished spectacular player in Sweet Smell of Success in 1957 with co-star Burt Lancaster. The next year he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in another drama, The Defiant Ones in 1958.
Curtis passed away on September 30, 2010, of cardiac apprehend in his Las Vegas home. He was 85 years old. He is endured by sixth wife Jill Vandenberg; Kelly Lee Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis, his two daughters with Janet Leigh; Alexandra Curtis and Allegra Curtis, and his two daughters with Christine Kaufmann; and a child, Benjamin Curtis, with Leslie Allen.
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