Tony Curtis
Actor
Films to Rent
- 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…