Tony Curtis
Actor
Houdini (1953)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher
- Drama exploring the life of magician and illusionist Harry Houdini, with then husband–and–wife Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh playing…
Trapeze (1956)
- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida…
- Surprisingly well–realised drama, which sets a love–triangle (Lancaster, Curtis, Lollobrigida) in the world of European circus…
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
- Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster
- New York–style cynicism reaches its apogee in this bitter pill from the 50s, with press agent Tony Curtis playing self–degrading lapdog…
Kings Go Forth (1958)
- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood
- Frank Sinatra and Tony Curtis are comrades in arms who fight over Natalie Wood, but her mixed heritage arouses their bigotry instead.
Vikings, The (1958)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine
- Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis and Ernest Borgnine sport their Nordic apparel to conduct a brutal dispute over the throne of Northumbria. Elegant…
Defiant Ones, The (1958)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier
- That well known image of race–hatred – escaped black and white prisoners unwillingly handcuffed together – originated here, with…
Operation Petticoat (1959)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Cary Grant, Tony Curtis
- Submarine Capt. Cary Grant and First Mate Tony Curtis excel in this seaborne comedy.
Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe
- One of the great comedies, in which Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon dress as women and join an all–girl travelling jazz band in order to escape the…
Great Impostor, The (1961)
- Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O'Brien…
- Tony Curtis bluffs his way though society in this comic caper based on the true story of Ferdinand Demara who successfully passed himself off as a…
Taras Bulba (1962)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Tony Curtis, Yul Brynner, Christine Kaufmann
- Violent epic in which Cossack leader Yul Brynner battles the Poles in 16th Century Ukraine while wayward son Tony Curtis falls in love with one of…
40 Pounds of Trouble (Forty Pounds of Trouble) (1962)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette, Phil Silvers…
- Tony Curtis plays a harangued casino manager dodging outstanding alimony payments while caring for an abandoned six–year–old girl.…
List Of Adrian Messenger, The (1963)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Tony Curtis…
- An intelligence officer is on the trail of a psychopath intent on working his bloody way through a seemingly unrelated list of…
Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Alec Guinness, Sophia Loren, James Mason…
- Monumental event is given a proportionate treatment with sets reputed to be the largest ever built and a literate script to boot.
Captain Newman, M.D. (1964)
- Dir. David Miller
Feat. Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson…
- Drama/comedy set during World War II, starring Gregory Peck as a psychiatrist in a military hospital in Arizona. Based on a novel by Leo Rosten,…
Great Race, The (1965)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood…
- Near–classic comedy set around the first New York–to–Paris car race in the early 20th century, with a cast of greats and bag of…
Boeing, Boeing (1965)
- Dir. John Rich
Feat. Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Thelma Ritter
- Comedy with Tony Curtis playing a philanderer who is secretly engaged to three different air stewardesses, and Jerry Lewis as the surprise house…
Boston Strangler, The (1968)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
- Undeniably fascinating but somewhat static docudrama about placid 1960s serial–killer Albert De Salvo (Tony Curtis), who underwent…
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1970)
- Dir. Hy Averback
Feat. Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Suzanne Pleshette…
- Tensions rise to boiling point between an Army base and a neighbouring redneck town in this off–beat satire.
Persuaders, The (TV Series) (Persuaders!, The) (1971)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Roger Moore, Tony Curtis
- Roger Moore and Tony Curtis play a debonair duo who lend their status and charm to dissuade the criminal fraternity. Wonderfully corny.
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Count of Monte Cristo, The (1975)
- Dir. David Greene
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Trevor Howard, Tony Curtis…
- This made for television retelling of Alexandre Dumas' timeless tale of epic revenge is a highly watchable, though dated effort, with Chamberlain…
Last Tycoon, The (1976)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Tony Curtis…
- Star–studded attempt to adapt F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished last novel, itself based on the life of early Hollywood mogul Irving Thalberg.…
Vegas (TV Series) (Vega$) (1978)
- Feat. Robert Urich, Tony Curtis
- Although Michael Mann is credited as creator of this splashy 70s detective series (in which Sin City is at its gaudy and ostentatious best), the…
Mirror Crack'd, The (1980)
- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis…
- Pleasant fun, this Agatha Christie whodunit concerns a quartet of 50s movie stars – played by four real movie stars – embroiled in…
Little Miss Marker (1980)
- Dir. Walter Bernstein
Feat. Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis…
- Comedy set in the 30's, following a gloomy, cantankerous bookie (Walter Matthau) running a gambling operation, who finds himself with a 6–year…
Portrait Of A Showgirl (1982)
- Dir. Steven Hilliard Stern
Feat. Lesley Ann Warren, Tony Curtis, Rita Moreno…
- Chintz melodrama concerning three Las Vegas showgirls involved in a Caesar's Palace revue. Possibly the drabbest portrait of Sin City imaginable…
Insignificance (1985)
- Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Gary Busey, Tony Curtis, Theresa Russell
- Curious chamber piece intriguingly posits Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe, Joseph McCarthy and Albert Einstein as characters who meet in a hotel room in…
Naked in New York (1994)
- Dir. Dan Algrant
Feat. Eric Stoltz, Mary-Louise Parker, Ralph Macchio…
- Insecure playwright Eric Stoltz copes with the varying successes of his own career, girlfriend Mary–Louise Parker and college pal Ralph…
Celluloid Closet, The (1996)
- Dir. Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Feat. Stewart Stern, Tony Curtis, Whoopi Goldberg…
- Fascinating doco revises the history of mainstream cinema from a gay and lesbian perspective, with an eye for discreet and…