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Birthdate: June 3, 1925
Tony Curtis
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1940s
0.3182
3
1950s
2.8085
30
1960s
2.4390
19
1970s
1.7616
10
1980s
1.7687
12
1990s
2.0087
11
2000s
1.0773
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.7345
2.7345
Tony Curtis Movie Rankings
1
3.8324J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster), the most prestigious newspaper columnist in New York, recruits shady press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) to ruin the reputation of jazz guitarist Steve Dallas (Martin Milner) who has begun to date Hunsecker’s sister. ...more about Sweet Smell of Success
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
DVD from $4.99
(10 sellers)
2
3.6570Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) just happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time when they witness a murder by the mob. Now, to evade the gangsters the men dress up as women and join an all girl musical band. ...more about Some Like It Hot
DVD from $4.55
(16 sellers)
3
3.6087A slave, trained to be a Gladiator, insights a revolt and uprising against the corrupt Roman establishment that imprisons him and his fellow men. ...more about Spartacus
DVD from $12.87
(12 sellers)
4
3.1396
Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. ...more about Vikings
DVD from $4.49
(11 sellers)
5
3.1383
Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on a chain gang who hate each other. After a truck prison accident, they flee and are pursued by the police. While they're chained, the two are dependent on one another. ...more about Defiant Ones
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $8.65
(10 sellers)
6
2.9088
In a marksmanship contest, Lin McAdam (Stewart) wins a prized Winchester rifle, which is immediately stolen by the runner-up, Dutch Henry Brown (McNally. ...more about Winchester '73
DVD from $5.26
(11 sellers)
7
2.8268
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. ...more about Boston Strangler
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $4.11
(12 sellers)
8
2.8085
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. ...more about Great Race
DVD from $13.71
(11 sellers)
9
2.7875
A comprehensive documentary of the history of gays and lesbians in cinema, from negative to positive reflections of gay characters and the troubles of actors and actresses. ...more about Celluloid Closet
DVD from $19.17
(11 sellers)
11
2.6050
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie. The year is 1953. The small English village of St. ...more about Mirror Crack'd
DVD from $6.97
(9 sellers)
12
2.5938
Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, (watch for the facial expressions) and to whom you can turn to for help while facing life ('your parents, nyaa, I don't think so'). ...more about Naked in New York
DVD from $14.85
(7 sellers)
13
2.5719
In an international car rally, competitors must travel from various points in Europe to Monte Carlo, then race their cars. Things are complicated by smuggling, cheating, honor, inventions, medicine, and love at first sight... ...more about Monte Carlo or Bust
- Not Available on DVD
14
2.5273
A submarine newly commissioned is damaged in the opening days of WW II. A captain, looking for a command insists he can get it to a dockyard and captain it. Going slowly to this site, they find a stranded group of Army nurses and must take them aboard. ...more about Operation Petticoat
DVD from $8.18
(11 sellers)
15
2.4582
A romanticized version of the life and times of the legendary escape artist , Harry Houdini. Chronicles his early beginnings in show business as a dime museum performer, to his ultimate (and inaccurate) death on stage in the Chinese Water Torture Cell. ...more about Houdini
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.2934
Messenger asks a friend to check into a list of names before leaving on a trip. When his plane is blown out of the sky, the matter becomes more serious. As his friend checks into the list, each seems to have died in mysterious circumstances. ...more about List of Adrian Messenger
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.2840
Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. ...more about Play It To the Bone
DVD from $5.99
(9 sellers)
19
2.2222
Karen Tandy (Susan Strasberg) enters a San Franisco hospital suffering from a growing tumor on her back. To the doctors (Jon Cedar and Paul Mantee) think it's a living creature, a fetus is being born inside the tumor. ...more about Manitou
DVD from $6.89
(11 sellers)
20
1.9803
Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter. But Alvah's chicken pox postpone the wedding night. ...more about No Room for the Groom
- Not Available on DVD
21
1.9053
Using Helen Gurley Brown's book as a jump off point, we follow the adventures of a supermarket tabloid editor as he tries to parlay an interview with the author of the book into headlines and sales. Of course, a romantic entanglement ensues. ...more about Sex and the Single Girl
- Not Available on DVD
22
1.8981
On a Japanese-occupied island during World War II, only two soldiers remain alive after a mission attempt goes horribly wrong. Trapped on the island, they must escort a scientist and his daughter to the other side of the island where their ship awaits. ...more about Beachhead
DVD from $6.62
(9 sellers)
23
1.8733
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. ...more about Captain Newman
- Not Available on DVD
24
1.8674
Four 1950's cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joseph MacCarthy) who conceivably could have met and probably didn't, fictionally do in this modern fable of post-WWII America. ...more about Insignificance
- Not Available on DVD
26
1.7759
Carlo Cofield first meets Laura when she wreckss his car and destroys all his worldly possessions. In trying to get insurance money from her he finds she is being kept by married swimming-pool big-shot Rod Prescott. ...more about Don't Make Waves
- Not Available on DVD
27
1.7067
After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months. Her doctors want to try a new procedure on her: to regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with neural patterns of a woman who just died. It works, and Kaylie seems to be ok again. ...more about BrainWaves
- Not Available on DVD
28
1.7031
An actor (John Phillips) is wrongly taken as a professional killer by a band planning to murder the Governor. Then he is hired by the Security Dept. to try to unmask and to catch the leaders. ...more about Center of the Web
- Not Available on DVD
29
1.5981
Brooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes, seemingly likable dead-end-kids, are dangerously involved with racketeer Gaggsy Steens. ...more about City Across the River
- Not Available on DVD
30
1.5852
In this third film version of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promotor/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team. ...more about Bad News Bears Go to Japan
DVD from $5.68
(11 sellers)
31
1.4993
The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his ...more about Francis
DVD from $12.79
(8 sellers)
32
1.4963
France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models ...more about Purple Mask
- Not Available on DVD
33
1.4396
Based on a true story, a bright young man who hasn't the patience for the normal way of advancement finds that people rarely question you if your papers are in order. He becomes a marine, a monk, a surgeon onboard a Canadian Warship, and a prison warden. ...more about Great Impostor
- Not Available on DVD
35
1.2250
American playboy Bernard Lawrence (Tony Curtis) has cleverly designed a system using the airline timetables to keep going three affairs with flight stewardesses. ...more about Boeing
- Not Available on DVD
36
1.2221
Young film student tries to sell his weird movie to a desparate film producer who is in need of a tax write-off. The producer screens the film "Lobster Man From Mars". ...more about Lobster Man from Mars
DVD from $6.99
(8 sellers)
37
1.2053
A young man from a small town goes to Hollywood to make his fortune. ...more about Club Life
- Not Available on DVD
38
1.1766
In medieval Persia, Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a roisterer by night. The morning after a rowdy banquet, Kiki, an escaped slave, takes shelter under Kashma's roof. ...more about Son of Ali Baba
- Not Available on DVD
41
An Alien Spaceship crashes on California Highway 118, near the farm of Pamela Wood (Susan Anspach). The US Government sends the Air Force and a team of Secret Agents to cover up the incident. ...more about Alien X Factor
- Not Available on DVD
42
Nick Bonelli, quarterback for Mid-State, proves himself an All American in the championship, but his parents die in an auto accident coming to the game. Nick decides to transfer to Sheridan University to pursue his real interest of studying architecture. ...more about All American
- Not Available on DVD
44
Technicolor & tights. In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day they journey to Macworth castle. ...more about Black Shield of Falworth
- Not Available on DVD
47
Nick has married several times, but all his rich wives were "accidently" killed after some time. Now he's married a young Italian widow, but it is not so easy to get rid of her, especially when she learns of his plans and tries to turn the tables. ...more about Drop Dead Darling
- Not Available on DVD
49
Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight manager 'Pop' Richardson. For a time, Sonya has the upper hand with Paul, but ultimately a rival appears in the shape of upper-crust reporter Ann Hollis. ...more about Flesh and Fury
- Not Available on DVD
50
Eddie Darrow has been hired by Philadelphia mobster Barney Pendleton to locate Christine Lawrence (Eddie's ex-lover and widow of Barney's former associate) and bring her home. ...more about Forbidden
- Not Available on DVD
51
Shot by a jealous husband, Charley falls out a porthole and is lost at sea only to find himself returned as an attractive blond woman. ...more about Goodbye Charlie
- Not Available on DVD
53
A crafty nightclub owner (Jack) brings together a group of small time hoods and teams them up in unusual pairs (black man and white racist, Ivy Leaguer and simpleton) for a set of multiple heists which turn out to be an elaborate double cross against a ...more about Immortals
DVD from $5.99
(7 sellers)
55
Automobile engineer, Johnny Dark (Tony Curtis), designs a radical new car. ...more about Johnny Dark
- Not Available on DVD
57
Audie Murphy plays a young Jesse James falling under the Svengali-like spell of the outlaw William Quantrill, played by Brian Donlevy. ...more about Kansas Raiders
- Not Available on DVD
59
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. ...more about Lady Gambles
- Not Available on DVD
62
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations. ...more about Little Miss Marker
DVD from $3.92
(10 sellers)
63
Life is never dull where Lord Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde are concerned. ...more about London Conspiracy
- Not Available on DVD
65
Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. ...more about Midnight Story
- Not Available on DVD
67
Cory, an ambitious Chicago slum kid with a knack for gambling, gets a busboy job at a posh Wisconsin resort...where his real purpose is to gamble with the staff and guests and romance rich young ladies. ...more about Mister Cory
- Not Available on DVD
68
During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. ...more about Not with My Wife
- Not Available on DVD
70
To pacify 104 sex-starved male soldiers building an Arctic radar base, Army psychologist Vicki Loren suggests choosing one by lot to have a "perfect furlough" as selected by the men: three weeks in Paris with their favorite pin-up queen, Sandra Roca. ...more about Perfect Furlough
- Not Available on DVD
71
John Bloodstone is a cop who is put on suspension after he uses a blow torch to stop a group of hostage takers. ...more about Prime Target
- Not Available on DVD
73
Tony Curtis plays a musician dropped into NYC straight from a bus from a small town in the Midwest somewhere. ...more about Rat Race
- Not Available on DVD
74
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. ...more about Rawhide Years
- Not Available on DVD
75
Ring Hassard and father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie because Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. ...more about Sierra
- Not Available on DVD
76
Youth gang leader Jerry Florea is shot fleeing from a crime scene by rookie cop Ed Gallagher. Result: "he'll never have children of his own. ...more about Six Bridges to Cross
- Not Available on DVD
77
Three sailors on leave (Joe, Al and Davy) head for Paris with one thing on their minds. ...more about So This Is Paris
- Not Available on DVD
78
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing. His cop friend McBride finances him; ex-con Bernie Browne trains him. ...more about Square Jungle
- Not Available on DVD
80
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. ...more about Taras Bulba
- Not Available on DVD
81
In Toronto, Canada, a troubled police detective investigates fixed betting and corruption in the world of heavyweight boxing. He uncovers a plot by a crime boss to use computerised data to rig fights. ...more about Title Shot
- Not Available on DVD
82
Mike Ribble was once a great trapeze artist - and the only to have completed a triple somersault - before his accident. Tino joins the circus, and manages to covince Mike to teach him the 'triple'. Meanwhile Lola, a tumbler, wants to get in on the act. ...more about Trapeze
- Not Available on DVD
85
Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her new husband. ...more about Wild and Wonderful
- Not Available on DVD
86
Two former U.S. Army soldiers, Adam Dyer and Josh Corey, join a band of Turkish mercenaries in 1922 Turkey whom are hired by Osman Bey, a local governor, to escort his tree daughters to Smyran and to protect a gold shipment that is to accompany them. ...more about You Can't Win 'Em All
- Not Available on DVD
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