Tony Curtis (b. Bernard Schwartz, June 3, 1925), is an American film actor. He is best known for light comic roles, especially his musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot (1959) with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. Over the years he has also essayed more serious dramatic roles, such as his escaped convict in The Defiant Ones (1958), for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Since 1949 he has appeared in more than 100 films and has also made frequent television appearances.
Tony Curtis (born February 11, 1983 in Seaside, California) is an American football tight end.
Tony Curtis (born 1946) is an Anglo-Welsh poet.
Curtis was born in Carmarthen and educated at the University of Wales, Swansea. He subsequently studied for the MFA degree at Goddard College, Vermont, becoming the only British writer ever to graduate from that course.
His debut in print was Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets (1974), in which he featured together with Duncan Bush and Nigel Jenkins. He was winner of the National Poetry Competition in 1984 and the Dylan Thomas Award in 1993. In 1994 he became Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan.
Tony Curtis (born 1955) is an Irish poet.
Curtis was born in Dublin, and educated at the University of Essex and at Trinity College, Dublin.
Bernard Schwartz, better known as Tony Curtis, was born in the Bronx and started his career at the movies in 1949 coming from the theatre using at first James Curtis and later Anthony Curtis as names. He always tried to work in various genres in order to avoid being typecast. In the genre of comedy one has to mention e.g. Goodbye Charlie (1964) and at the adventures e.g. Vikings, The (1958). That he is also able to play more complex and psychological roles he showed in Boston Strangler, The (1968). Curtis also produced some movies and appeared after 1973 several times in different TV productions. His daughter Jamie Lee Curtis with his first wife Janet Leigh has followed her father successfully into the movie business.
