TONY CURTIS |
(Bernard Schwartz) |
* 03. June 1925 (in New York) † 29. September 2010 (in Henderson, Nevada) |
OSCARNOMINEE |
1958 as John 'Joker' Jackson in 'The Defiant Ones' |
comments I liked him most in 'The Defiant Ones' (1958), 'Some Like It Hot' (1959) and 'Spartacus' (1960) his parents were Emanuel and Helen Schwartz, his father had a tailor store Tony had a brother, Julius (* 1929 †1938) who died in 1938 when he was hit by a truck - young Tony had to identify him in hospital, because his parents didn't have the courage to go and see their dead son Tony had another brother, Robert (* 1940 † 1992) was marriad to Jill Vandenberg (marriage was on 6. November 1998 until his death) was formerly married to: Janet Leigh (1951 - 1962, divorced), Christine Kaufmann (1963 - 1967, divorced), Leslie Allen (1968 - 1982, divorced), Andrea Savio (1984 - 1992, divorced) and Lisa Deutsch (1993 - 1994, divorced) he has 2 daughters with Leigh: actress Jamie Lee (* 22. November 1958) and actress Kelly Lee (* 17. June 1956) he has 2 daughters with Kaufmann: Alexandrea (* 1964) and Allegra (* 1966) he has 2 sons with Allen: Nicholas (*1971 † 2. July 1994 - he died of a heroin overdose) and Benjamin (* 1973) |
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