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  • Curtis' curses leaves BBC in hot water - 25 August 2009
    -The BBC has fallen foul of a media watchdog after Hollywood legend Tony Curtis swore throughout a live radio interview earlier this year (May09).- -Broadcasting rulemaker Ofcom has warned BBC Radio Ulster in Northern Ireland to clean up its act after it failed to st

Tony Curtis - what members say


  • Spartacus
  • Spartacus review by from Wolstenbury, Sussex
    Rated - 5 stars A true classic 14 May 2004
    ...pport comes from lover Jean Simmons, nemesis Laurence Olivier, hero worshipping Tony Curtis, senator Charles Laughton and slave trader Peter Ustinov (even better than Oliv...  
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • Rosemary's Baby review by daemonicus1980 from London, UK
    Rated - 5 stars spellbinding! 9 April 2004
    ...e accendancy or in the twilight years of their careers, see if you can spot the Tony Curtis cameo! As for the extras they're not the most numerous but the retrospective...  
  • Some Like It Hot
  • Some Like It Hot review by from Newbury
    Rated - 4 stars What's not to love? 25 September 2003
    ...sibly due to the masterful comedic brilliance of her co-stars ? Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, who provide some of the best one-liners and physical comedy in the business - ...  

Tony Curtis - filmography


  • Prime Target on DVD (1991)
    Starring: David Heavener,  Isaac Hayes,  Robert Reed
    Director: David Heavener
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A renegade cop with an attitude is chosen by the FBI to transport a mob boss across country to testify against the Mafia. To stay alive he must remain one step ahead of the competition.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 39% from 40 members
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  • Insignificance (1985)
    Starring: Tony Curtis,  Gary Busey,  Michael Emil
    Director: Nicolas Roeg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. One night in 1953 in a new York hotel bedroom an incredible meeting took place between a blonde bombshell, a psychotic senator, a has-been baseball player and a crazy scientist...read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 44 members
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  • Sextette on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Mae West,  Timothy Dalton,  Dom Deluise
    Director: Ken Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The sensational Mae West stars in this somewhat lurid vanity musical based on her own play. Six former husbands hover around a rich heiress on her honeymoon. This was Mae West's last film, made when she was in her eighties.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 102 members
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  • The Count Of Monte Cristo (1975)
    Starring: Richard Chamberlain,  Trevor Howard,  Louis Jourdan
    Director: David Greene
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. Richard Chamberlain leads an all-star cast in this film rendition of Alexandre Dumas' stirring tale of injustice, revenge and retribution.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 66% from 40 members
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  • The American West Of John Ford on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Tony Curtis,  Henry Fonda,  John Wayne
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A documentary which focuses on the director John Ford and his interest in the western film. Featuring insights from the actors who so often starred in his westerns; James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda. Introduced by Tony Curtis and featuring the original theatrical trailer for the film Vertigo.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 90 members
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  • Rosemary's Baby on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Mia Farrow,  John Cassavetes,  Ruth Gordon
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    In Roman Polanski's stylish occult thriller--possibly the director's most famous film and a big box-office success--a young, happily married couple, the waiflike Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and struggling actor Guy (John Cassavetes), move into a spacious apartment in a venerable old building off Central ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 8,437 members
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  • Cult TV Legends on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Roger Moore,  Patrick McGoohan,  Tony Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    CULT TV LEGENDS collects episodes from four of the best programmes from the late 1960s and early 1970s. The contents live up to its billing, with Roger Moore and Tony Curtis as crime fighting playboys in THE PERSUADERS, whilst the mystery unfolds in the opening episode of THE PRISONER. For fans of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 102 members
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  • Boeing Boeing (1965)
    Starring: Tony Curtis,  Jerry Lewis,  Dany Saval
    Director: John Rich
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Handsome bachelor Bernard Lawrence is juggling three sexy stewardesses. He accomplishes this by wining and dining them according to their airline schedules, which also keeps them from finding out about one another. But unfortunately, two things are threatening to end Bernard's merry-go-round of ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 8 members
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  • The Great Race (1965)
    Starring: Jack Lemmon,  Tony Curtis,  Natalie Wood
    Director: Blake Edwards
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon star as archrivals The Great Leslie and Professor Fate in this madcap, round-the-world adventure comedy. The enemies are determined to win a turn-of-the-century automobile race from New York to Paris. Also competing is the beautiful suffragette Maggie Dubois (Natalie Wood).
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 99 members
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  • Captain Newman, MD (1963)
    Starring: Gregory Peck,  Tony Curtis,  Angie Dickinson
    Director: David Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Dr. Josiah Newman (Gregory Peck) runs the psychiatric unit of a U.S. Military Hospital during WWII. Short of help, Newman coerces newly arrived neurotic orderly Jackson Leibowitz (Tony Curtis) to work in his ward. Leibowitz's scheming & humor quickly turns life inside the ward upside down. Newman, ..read more »
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 27% from 4 members
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  • Taras Bulba on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Brad Dexter,  Sam Wanamaker,  Guy Rolfe
    Director: J. Lee Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A "Romeo and Juliet" story that takes place in 18th c. Ukraine. Taras (Yul Brenner) has settled into comfortable farm life after years of adventures and swashbuckling with his cossack companions. Though not wealthy, he is able to send his son Andrei (Tony Curtis) away to a Polish school. At this ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 94 members
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  • Spartacus on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Kirk Douglas,  Laurence Olivier,  Jean Simmons
    Director: Stanley Kubrick
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    SPARTACUS, based on Howard Fast's popular novel, is Stanley Kubrick's glorious masterpiece about a slave uprising in Rome in 70 BC. Kirk Douglas, who also served as executive producer, stars as the title character, a man born of a slave woman and a slave master who has known nothing but chains for ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 6,427 members
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  • Operation Petticoat on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Tony Curtis,  Joan O'Brien
    Director: Blake Edwards
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Cary Grant and Tony Curtis star as naval officers in this service comedy, one of the director's favorite genres. When Adm. Matt Sherman's (Grant) submarine, the Sea Tiger, is damaged during the attack on Pearl Harbor, he needs to find spare parts to have it recommissioned. Into the breach steps ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 888 members
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  • Some Like It Hot on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Marilyn Monroe,  Jack Lemmon,  Tony Curtis
    Director: Billy Wilder
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When Chicago musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) accidentally witness a gangland shooting they quickly board a southband train to Florida, disguised as Josephine and Daphne, the two newest homeliest members of an all-girl jazz band. Their cover is perfect...until a lovelorn singer (..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 26,606 members
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  • Kings Go Forth on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Frank Sinatra,  Tony Curtis,  Natalie Wood
    Director: Delmer Daves
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Frank Sinatra stars as Lieutenant Sam Loggins, an American G.I. stationed in a small war torn French village in KINGS GO FORTH. Abroad and lonely, he falls in love with a mixed-race American woman, Monique (Natalie Wood). Monique in turn has set her sights on Britt (Tony Curtis), a rich playboy who'..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 99 members
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  • Trapeze on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Gina Lollobrigida,  Tony Curtis
    Director: Carol Reed
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This splashy Hollywood spectacular was a radical departure for a director who had specialized in socially conscious thrillers. Set against a circus backdrop, it stars Burt Lancaster as Mike Ribble, a crippled former acrobat. Tino Orsino (Tony Curtis), a young aerialist, seeks out the older man, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 305 members
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  • Meet Danny Wilson on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Frank Sinatra,  Alex Nicol,  Shelley Winters
    Director: Joseph Pevney
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Frank Sinatra shines as a gifted, but quick tempered, up and coming lounge singer Danny Wilson who makes a meagre living singing in dive bars and hustling pool with best friend Mike Ryan (Alex Nicol). Even with a set of golden tonsils, "Easy Street" isn't so easy for Danny to find. One night, by ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 11 members
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  • Flesh And Fury on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Jan Sterling,  Tony Curtis,  Wallace Ford
    Director: Joseph Pevney
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director Joseph Pevney (MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES) helms this drama featuring Tony Curtis in one of his first starring roles. Curtis plays Paul Callan, a boxer whose world is turned upside down when he becomes involved with Sonya Bartow (Jan Sterling – THE HIGH AND MIGHTY, ACE IN THE HOLE): a blonde ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 4 members
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  • Winchester 73 on DVD (1950)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Shelley Winters,  Dan Duryea
    Director: Anthony Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 916 members
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  • David & Fatima
    Starring: Cameron Van Hoy,  Danielle Pollack,  Martin Landau
    Director: Alain Zaloum
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Jerusalem: A city of contrasts and conflicts, where Arabs, Jews, Christians and Muslims all mix but seldom mingle. This is where David, a young Israeli Jew, and Fatima, a beautiful Palestinian Muslim girl, meet and fall in love. But in a volatile land that is steeped in tradition and soaked in ..read more »
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  • Roger Moore - A Matter Of Class on DVD
    Starring: Roger Moore,  Gregory Peck,  Michael Caine
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Roger Moore, one of the most popular of actors, has travelled far... from working-class South London to the Riviera's glamorous St. Paul de Vence, from another contract player to The Saint and 007, from struggling film extra to Hollywood superstar, from unknown office boy to UNICEF's Ambassador-at-..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 17 members
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Tony Curtis - watch online


  • The Count Of Monte Cristo to Watch Now (1975)
    Starring: Richard Chamberlain,  Trevor Howard,  Louis Jourdan
    Director: David Greene
    Certificate: Certificate: U (TBC)
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    Run time: 98 minutes
    Alexander Dumas' stirring classic tale of injustice, revenge and retribution, in which Edmond Dantes (Richard Chamberlain) is falsely accused by three men of conspiring with Napoleon. Prosecuted by the conniving De Villefort (Louis Jourdan), he is sentenced to an agonising life on the isolated ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 23 members
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Tony Curtis facts

5 most recent films

The Celluloid Closet - 3.0 stars
Prime Target - 2.0 stars
Insignificance - 3.0 stars
Rich And Powerful - 1.5 stars
The Mirror Crack'd - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Some Like It Hot - 4.0 stars
Spartacus - 4.0 stars
The Persuaders - 4.0 stars
Spartacus - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars
Operation Petticoat - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

David & Fatima - 3 stars
Captain Newman, MD - 1.5 stars
Rich And Powerful - 1.5 stars
Prime Target - 2.0 stars
Suppose They Gave A War And Nobody Came? - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Janet Leigh - 5 times - show films
Kirk Douglas - 4 times - show films
Natalie Wood - 4 times - show films
Henry Fonda - 4 times - show films
Donald Pleasence - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Blake Edwards - 2 times - show films
Rudolph Mate - 2 times - show films
Richard Fleischer - 2 times - show films
David Greene - 2 times - show films
Stanley Kubrick - 2 times - show films