The series ran twenty-four episodes. [19] His first wife was actress Janet Leigh, to whom he was married from 1951 to 1962, and with whom he fathered actresses Kelly and Jamie Lee. [48] In a release to the Associated Press, his daughter, actress Jamie Lee Curtis, stated: My father leaves behind a legacy of great performances in movies and in his paintings and assemblages. LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Actor Tony Curtis was buried Monday with a melange of his favorite possessions -- a Stetson hat, an Armani scarf, driving gloves, … Curtis decided it was time to turn to television and co-starred with Roger Moore in the TV series The Persuaders!. He starred with Suzanne Pleshette in the comedy 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962), which was a mild hit. (1960), a comedy with Dean Martin. Other names: Dell Dude: Occupation: Actor: Years active: 1999-present: Benjamin Bowmar Curtis (born November 2, 1980) is an American actor who became known as the Dell Dude in a series of commercials for Dell Computers between 2000 and 2003. That was followed by Blake Edwards’s Operation Petticoat (1959) with Cary Grant. Born Bernard Schwartz to Hungarian Jewish immigrants in New York, the future actor knew deprivation and experienced violence at the hands of his schizophrenic mother. Jill and Tony Curtis at their home in Henderson, Nevada, on April 5, 2005. In 1965, Tony Curtis was animated in an episode of The Flintstones; he also voiced his character Stoney Curtis. In his earliest parts he acted in a string of mediocre films, including swashbucklers, westerns, light comedies, sports films and a musical. In 2004, he was inducted into the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Hall of Fame. His paintings can also be seen at the Tony Vanderploeg Gallery in Carmel, California. Following his discharge from the Navy, Curtis attended City College of New York on the G.I. 59410614, citing Palm Memorial Park, Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave . (adapting Kenneth Anger's book series) in 1992–1993; each episode would include Curtis recalling some anecdotes from his own career. From the moment he arrived in Hollywood as an impossibly handsome young man, Tony knew how to be a charmer. While still at college, Curtis was discovered by Joyce Selznick, the notable talent agent, casting director, and niece of film producer David O. Selznick. In his autobiography, Curtis described how by chance he met Jack Warner on the plane to California, and also how he briefly dated Marilyn Monroe before either was famous. Early in his career, Curtis joined several bands, playing with the Tommy Dorsey Band and later Shep Fields and His New Music. The six-times-married star fathered six children, creating a big blended family. (1969), an all-star car race film in the vein of The Great Race. His next movies were more "B" fare: All American (1953), as a footballer; Forbidden (1953), as a criminal; Beachhead (1954), a war film; Johnny Dark (1954), with Laurie, as a racing car driver; and The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), a medieval swashbuckler with Leigh. For a number of years Curtis was voted by exhibitors in an annual poll from Quigley Publishing as among the top stars in the United States: On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... Sony Ericsson Empire Lifetime Achievement Award, How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border, Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies, A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special, Sitges Catalonian International Film Festival, Distinguished Hollywood Film Artist Award. His work commands more than $25,000 a canvas now. She's the sexiest woman I've ever known. “I think my dad’s greatest accomplishment is that he became a big star and was able to take care of his family,” says Allegra. When Curtis died in 2010, they discovered that the actor had cut all five of his surviving children out of his will. After his son's death, Curtis remarked that it was "a terrible thing when a father loses his son. It was one of the biggest hits of the year. His remains were interred at Palm Memorial Park Cemetery in Henderson, Nevada, on October 4, 2010. The presenter also apologized to the audience for Curtis's "Hollywood realism." [12] "I still make movies but I'm not that interested in them any more. Curtis was sleeping at a friend's house when he had the seizure on Saturday, said Jennifer Walsh, a secretary for Tony Curtis. He was one of many names in The Last Tycoon (1976) and had the title role in an Italian comedy Casanova & Co. (1977). [47] In fact, during the 1960s Curtis served as the president of the American 'I Quit Smoking' Club. He achieved his first serious recognition as a dramatic actor in Sweet Smell of Success (1957) with co-star Burt Lancaster. He leaves behind children and their families who loved him and respected him and a wife and in-laws who were devoted to him. Mamie Van Doren Reflects on Life, Love and More, Inside Prince Harry and Meghan's 'Bright and Airy' Playroom for Archie, How Marie Osmond and Steve Are 'Making Up' for 25 Years of Lost Time, The Big 7-5! However, when they chose to get married, studio executives spent three days trying to talk him out of it, telling him he would be "poisoning himself at the box office." In his second film, City Across the River (also in 1949), he was credited as "Anthony Curtis". There are 50 ways to please your lover. "For a while, we were Hollywood's golden couple," he said. Biographies have propagated a misconception that he was born in the Bronx, probably due to the family's moves when he was very young, but Tony pointedly corrected this in a TV interview. Prince William Receives New Title From Queen Elizabeth, Prince William's New Royal Title 'Hit a Nerve' With Prince Harry, Janet Jackson Walks the Red Carpet in Look Inspired By the 1920s, Gwen Stefani Reveals the One Thing She Wants at Wedding to Blake Shelton, True Happiness! [42][43][44] A few days beforehand he had met photographer Andy Gotts for a photo-shoot at his home, saying: "I'm not in a good way at the moment but can I ask you one thing? It was mildly popular, but The Defiant Ones (1958), was a bigger success. At one point, he and a brother were handed over to the state because his parents couldn’t feed them. “I remember his cologne, Vetiver by Guerlain Paris, and his midnight blue velvet blazers,” she tells Closer. "[24], In 1994, his son Nicholas died of a heroin overdose at the age of 23. “He was incapacitated, what parent wouldn’t be? He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame inducted in 1960, and received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France in 1995. He had spent summers in Dennis since 1978. Ben Curtis's brilliant winter campaign was rewarded as the leading rider was crowned champion jockey for the latest All-Weather Championships, although he admitted his regret at finishing one shy of Luke Morris's record for most winners in the winter season. The Flats star was sent spinning along the Wolverhampton course for several metres, before amazingly getting up after treatment and helping himself into an ambulance. They met in a restaurant in 1993 and married on November 6, 1998. He then studied acting at The New School in Greenwich Village under the influential German stage director Erwin Piscator. [46] His widow Jill told the press that Curtis had suffered from various lung problems for years as a result of cigarette smoking, although he had quit smoking about 30 years earlier. 50s heartthrob Tony Curtis was the father of six children, the result of his 6 marriages, among them movie star Jamie Lee Curtis. JOCKEY Ben Curtis astonished race fans as he was flung around the track like a rag doll in a sickening fall but miraculously managed to walk away. His stardom and film career declined considerably after 1960. He will be greatly missed.[49]. [23] "The age gap doesn't bother us. The organization works for the restoration and preservation of synagogues and the 1300 Jewish cemeteries in Hungary and is dedicated to the 600,000 Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Hungary and lands occupied by the Hungarian Army. Thomson called it an "outrageous film," and an American Film Institute survey voted it the funniest American film ever made. [27] Curtis also helped promote Hungary's national image in commercials.[28]. He acted in more than 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. Actor Tony Curtis always enjoyed making his daughters laugh, even when they were on opposite sides of the world. He adored the boy.”. Curtis' career spanned over six decades, starring in more than 100 films. He supported Gregory Peck in Captain Newman, M.D. [3] The film co-starred Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe, and was directed by Billy Wilder. They threatened "banishment" back to the Bronx and the end of his budding career. "[19][20], The studio he was under contract with, Universal-International, generally stayed out of their stars' love lives. [7][8] He was in three Westerns, Sierra (1950), starring Audie Murphy, one of many names he worked with (including fellow Universal contractee, Rock Hudson), Winchester '73 (1950), starring James Stewart and Shelley Winters, and Kansas Raiders (1951), in which he supported Murphy again, playing Kit Dalton and billed as "Tony Curtis.". — Ben Curtis (@_benacurtis) December 8, 2020. In his later years, Curtis made numerous television appearances. Curtis also took on the role of the Ukrainian Cossack Andrei in historical action romance epic Taras Bulba in which the lead character was played by Yul Bryner in 1962. The couple divorced in 1982. 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Tony starred in several other movies afterward, but he didn't get his major break until 1951 when he scored the major role in 'The Prince Who Was a Thief.' The largest synagogue in Europe today, it was originally built in 1859 and suffered damage during World War II. [16] Although Universal Pictures taught him fencing and riding, in keeping with the cinematic themes of the era, Curtis admitted he was at first interested only in girls and money. Two years later, in 1984, Curtis married Andrea Savio; they divorced in 1992.[23]. The mural was relocated to Hollywood Boulevard and Bronson Avenue in September 2011. “He went through what we call his ‘Italian count’ phase.”. In the early 1960s, he was a voice-over guest star on The Flintstones as "Stoney Curtis". He stated that his marriage with Leigh had effectively ended "a year earlier". His sixth and last wife, Jill Vandenberg, was 45 years his junior. [39] He underwent heart bypass surgery in 1994, after suffering a heart attack. [17] He had four lines in The Lady Gambles (1949) and a bigger part in Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949). There was no arguing with him. My body is functioning and everything is good. [37] Curtis developed a heavy cocaine addiction in 1974 while filming Lepke, at a time when his stardom had declined considerably and he was being offered few film roles. It was a huge hit and earned Curtis a Golden Globe nomination. Curtis graduated to more prestigious projects when he was cast in support of Burt Lancaster and Gina Lollobrigida in Trapeze (1956). “If I needed anything or I just wanted to talk, he usually made himself available,” Allegra says, remembering how Tony invited her to join him in Hawaii when he lived in the Aloha State during the mid-1980s. Curtis explained that he thought the interview was being taped, when it was in fact live. In his later years, Curtis made numerous television appearances. The following year he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in The Defiant Ones (1958) alongside Sidney Poitier (who was also nominated in the same category). How Dolly Parton Plans to Celebrate Her Upcoming Birthday, Marie Osmond Shares the Clever Way She Visits Family Amid the Pandemic, 'Spartacus' Actor Tony Curtis' Amazing Untold Story, Marie Osmond Reveals Possibility of Her Grandkids Becoming Child Stars, Why Marie Osmond Doesn't 'Stress' Over Staying Healthy in Her 60s. [50][51] Investor Kirk Kerkorian, actor Kirk Douglas, and singer Phyllis McGuire were among the honorary pallbearers. He used his good looks, magnetism and prodigious talent to quickly become one of the most bankable actors of the 1950s and 1960s, starring in dramas (Sweet Smell of Success), comedies (Some Like It Hot) and epics (Spartacus). He was an accomplished keyboard musician and artist. [29] His face is featured among the celebrities on the cover of the Sgt. Closer Weekly is part of the A360 Media Entertainment Group.Copyright © A360 Media LLC 2021. In 1960, Curtis played a supporting role in Spartacus, which became another major hit for him. Although his early film roles mainly took advantage of his good looks, by the latter half of the 1950s he had demonstrated range and depth in numerous dramatic and comedy roles. [10][11] He spoke only Hungarian until the age of six, delaying his schooling. The male star was Burt Lancaster who would make a number of films with Curtis. His brother Robert was institutionalized with the same mental illness. I wasn't low man on the totem pole, I was under the totem pole, in a sewer, tied to a sack.[13]. Ben Curtis. Another two daughters, Alexandra, 56, and Allegra, 54, joined the family after he wed German actress Christine Kaufmann. Yet even as Tony grew up running with street gangs in the Bronx, he maintained his sensitivity and an artist’s eye for beauty. Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress, author, and activist who is best known for her work in films such as Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Trading Places (1983), Blue Steel (1990), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), True Lies (1994), The Tailor of Panama (2001), Veronica Mars (2014), and Knives Out (2019). Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz on June 3, 1925, at the Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital on 105th Street in Manhattan, New York City, the first of three boys born to Helen (née Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz. ... Ben, 47, and Nicholas, who died tragically in … The service was attended by daughters Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis; Arnold Schwarzenegger; Rich Little; and Vera Goulet, Robert Goulet's widow. However, by the time he starred in Houdini (1953) with his wife Janet Leigh, "his first clear success," notes critic David Thomson, his acting had progressed immensely.[1][2]. The following year, on February 28, 1993, he married Lisa Deutsch. “He had a wonderful way of bringing us an ll together.”, It couldn’t have been easy. [31], In 2008, he was featured in the documentary The Jill & Tony Curtis Story about his efforts with his wife to rescue horses from slaughterhouses.[32]. He then entered the Betty Ford Clinic and vowed to overcome his various illnesses. In March 2006, Curtis received the Sony Ericsson Empire Lifetime Achievement Award. His parents were Hungarian-Jewish emigrants from Czechoslovakia and Hungary: his father was born in Ópályi, near Mátészalka, and his mother was a native of Nagymihály (now Michalovce, Slovakia); she later said she arrived in the U.S. from Válykó (now Vaľkovo, Slovakia). Curtis gave an Oscar-nominated performance as a bigoted white escaped convict chained to a black man, Sidney Poitier. He was one of the villains in The Count of Monte Cristo (1975) and had the title role in the gangster film Lepke (1975). [citation needed], Curtis was married six times. The box office performances of these films were solid, and Curtis was growing in popularity. “Ours was a deep bond.”. When the star passed away in 2010 at age 85 following a cardiac arrest, he was buried with a pair of his son Nicholas’ baby shoes. They divorced only a year later in 1994. Later, Curtis co-starred as a casino owner in the Robert Urich 1978-1981 ABC series Vega$ and was in The Users (1978). Visiting where he is today and what happened to cause him to change his Will! [18] Response from the critics and public was excellent. In the last years of his life, he concentrated on painting rather than movies. Jamie Lee Curtis has admitted in a new interview to once doing heavy drugs with her father, “The Defiant Ones” star Tony Curtis. [4] The part reinforced his reputation as a serious actor with his chilling portrayal of serial killer Albert DeSalvo. Kaufmann resumed her career, which she had interrupted during her marriage. Ben Curtis was born on November 2, 1980 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA as Benjamin Bowmar Curtis. Curtis had the lead in a TV series that did not last, McCoy (1975–76). Douglas came calling again, offering Curtis a key role in the former's epic production Spartacus (1960). At 16, he had his first small acting part in a school stage play. 1995-03-30 04:00:00 PDT Boston-- Two men were in custody yesterday and police were searching for one more on charges related to the death in July on Cape Cod of musician Nicolas Curtis… [4] He often collaborated with Edwards on later films. Reason for Tony Curtis Reportedly Cutting Jamie Lee and 4 Other Children out of His Will. Curtis was one of many stars who had small roles in The List of Adrian Messenger (1963). Curtis and friends travel to Australia, Italy, Spain and California. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Tony Curtis (3 Jun 1925–29 Sep 2010), Find a Grave Memorial no. (AP) _ Nicholas B. Curtis, the 23-year-old son of actor Tony Curtis, died after suffering a seizure. Married to horse trainer Jill Vandenberg, they operated a nonprofit refuge for former race-horses while Tony honed his skills as a painter. Under contract at Universal Pictures, he changed his name from Bernard Schwartz to Anthony Curtis and met unknown actors Rock Hudson, James Best, Julie Adams and Piper Laurie. [36], During the 1971 filming of The Persuaders!, Curtis developed a reputation among his costars and crew as a frequent marijuana smoker. It was followed by the publication of his next book, The Making of Some Like it Hot: My Memories of Marilyn Monroe and the Classic American Movie (2009). “So he took me in and I went to college. '” laughs Allegra. July 24, 2019 | by Pedro Marrero. He returned to comedy for Monte Carlo or Bust! How long is your neck?”, His eldest daughter, Kelly Curtis, also has strong sentimental memories of her famous father. For a change of pace he did a musical, So This Is Paris (1955), then it was back to more typical fare: Six Bridges to Cross (1955), as a bank robber; The Purple Mask (1955), a swashbuckler; The Square Jungle (1955), a boxing film. [33] In it, he describes his encounters with other Hollywood legends of the time including Frank Sinatra and James Dean, as well as his hard-knock childhood and path to success. By … In 1945, he signed a contract with Columbia Pictures to star in various musical Westerns, playing the romantic lead in most of his films. [11] His mother was later diagnosed with schizophrenia. On television, he continued to make occasional guest appearances (sometimes playing fictional versions of himself) into the mid-2000s. The couple divorced in 1962, and the following year Curtis married Christine Kaufmann, the 18-year-old German co-star of his latest film, Taras Bulba. Tony Curtis A year after the famed actor’s death, The Tony Curtis Estate held an auction to sell off memorabilia and other items owned by the actor. [40], On July 8, 2010, Curtis, who suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), was hospitalized in Las Vegas after suffering an asthma attack during a book-signing engagement in Henderson, Nevada, where he lived.[41]. On September 2, 1945, Curtis witnessed the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay from his ship's signal bridge about a mile away.[14]. Inside Halle Berry’s Life With Her Boyfriend and Kids, It’s Good to Be Bad! He made some comic adventure tales: You Can't Win 'Em All (1970) with Charles Bronson and Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1970). They divorced in 1968. [38] In 1984, Curtis was rushed to the hospital suffering from advanced cirrhosis as a result of his alcoholism and cocaine addiction. Curtis then teamed up with then-wife Janet Leigh in Houdini (1953), in which Curtis played the title role. PROVINCETOWN, Mass. I also learned humility and self-reliance from him, two of the most valuable lessons of my life.”, At other times, Tony could also be unexpectedly generous. I don't use Viagra either. Another star-maker, Kirk Douglas, was eager to work with him in The Vikings (1958). Actor Tony Curtis always enjoyed making his daughters laugh, even when they were on opposite sides of the world. Comedian and close friend Jerry Lewis was present as a witness.[13]. He attended Seward Park High School. Star on the Walk of Fame–Motion Picture 6817 Hollywood Blvd. "[45] He left behind five children and seven grandchildren. JOCKEY Ben Curtis astonished race fans as he was flung around the track like a rag doll in a sickening fall but miraculously managed to walk away. Tony holds the couple's two Yorkshire terriers, Daphne and Josephine. We laugh a lot. Months after the passing of classic Hollywood actor Tony Curtis … He could also be spotted in Francis (1950), Woman in Hiding (1950), and I Was a Shoplifter (1950). Because of the poor performance of a series of comedies, Curtis fired his agent and took a pay cut to $100,000 to play the title role in The Boston Strangler (1968), his first dramatic film in several years. A surrealist, Curtis claimed Van Gogh, [Paul] Matisse, Picasso, and Magritte as influences. Curtis made a Western, The Rawhide Years (1957), was a gambler in Mister Cory (1957) and a cop in The Midnight Story (1957). 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Throughout his life, Curtis enjoyed painting and, beginning in the early 1980s, painted as a second career. Five months before his death he rewrote his will, naming all his children and intentionally disinheriting them with no explanation, then leaving his entire estate to his wife.[52][53][54]. From Vanity Fair, June 2005. Early career. In 2007, his painting The Red Table was on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. “He worshipped his father and loved his mother, but I don’t believe he ever felt taken care of by his parents,” explains Kelly. In October 2008, Curtis's autobiography American Prince: A Memoir, was published. In 1994, a mural featuring his likeness, painted by the artist George Sportelli, was unveiled on the Sunset Boulevard overpass of the Hollywood Freeway Highway 101 in Los Angeles. “I know he loved me and my sisters and brothers deeply and we loved him with our hearts and souls,” Kelly says. In response, Curtis and Leigh decided to defy the studio heads and instead eloped and were married by a local judge in Greenwich, Connecticut. In 1948, Curtis arrived in Hollywood at age 23. His mother made an appearance as a participant on the television show You Bet Your Life on February 9, 1956, hosted by Groucho Marx. Bill. He followed it up with Flesh and Fury (1952), a boxing movie; No Room for the Groom (1952), a comedy with Laurie directed by Douglas Sirk; and Son of Ali Baba (1952), another film set in the Arab world with Laurie. That hurt me a lot and broke my heart. “If he had one sort of failing, I suppose it was with women,” Peter Golenbock, co-author of Tony’s 2008 memoir American Prince, tells Closer, explaining that once children entered Tony’s marriages, he would start to wander. [26] In 1998, he also founded the Emanuel Foundation for Hungarian Culture, and served as honorary chairman. [35], Curtis was a lifelong Democrat and attended the 1960 Democratic National Convention alongside such liberal performers as Edward G. Robinson, Shelley Winters, Ralph Bellamy, and Lee Marvin. “[Tony] was completely devastated and immobilized by it,” confides Barry Paris, co-author of 1993’s Tony Curtis: The Autobiography. To his millions of fans he was the last of the great matinee idols. But I paint all the time." He acted in more than 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. ... Local Chef Tony … (1966) with George C. Scott; Drop Dead Darling (1966), a British comedy; Don't Make Waves (1967), a satire of beach life from director Alexander Mackendrick, with Claudia Cardinale; and On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... (1967), an Italian comedy with Monica Vitti. Curtis then co-starred with Frank Sinatra and Natalie Wood in Kings Go Forth (1958), a war story. 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