Biography
Tony Curtis (June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in over 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. In his later years, Curtis made numerous television appearances. Although his early film roles were partly the result of his good looks, by the later half of the 1950's he became a notable and strong screen presence. He...
Known For
Complete Filmography

From Roger Moore with Love
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Friends, family and co-stars take part in this revealing and entertaining look at British icon Roger Moore and his rise to global fame. With rare home...

Rat Pack
2022
as Self (archive footage)
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bish...

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was a shy young man with theatrical ambitions, like many others; but his charisma and superb ...

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
2012
as Self
Tony Curtis, the man who influenced Elvis Presley and James Dean. A sex symbol, a matinee idol, a powerful and magnetic actor, Tony Curtis was the ori...

That's Insignificance
2011
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Nicolas Roeg's 1985 film INSIGNIFICANCE featuring interviews with the cast.
Tony Curtis erzählt...
2010
as Self
The American actor Tony Curtis talks about his career.

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
as Eric (archive footage) (uncredited)
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first...

Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
2010
as Self
Documentary about Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon
2010
as Self
Documentary about Marilyn Monroe: 1962: America loses its blonde icon. Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances. How did she die? The police...

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
as Self
A revealing look at the outspoken, flamboyant founder of the Playboy empire. With humor and insight, the film captures Hefner's fierce battles with th...

David & Fatima
2008
as Mr. Schwartz
A retelling of Romeo and Juliet in Jerusalem involving a Palestinian woman and an Israeli man.

The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006
as Self
A look back at the impact Billy Wilder's comedy classic "Some Like It Hot" has left since it's release in 1959.

The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006
as Self
A look back at the making of Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy classic "Some Like It Hot."

The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006
Thanks
A look back at the impact Billy Wilder's comedy classic "Some Like It Hot" has left since it's release in 1959.

The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006
Thanks
A look back at the making of Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy classic "Some Like It Hot."
Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten
2006
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary about Jerry Lewis directed by Eckhart Schmidt.
Hollywood Legenden
2004
as Self
Documentary about Hollywood.

Hugh Hefner: American Playboy
2003
as Self
With his magazine Hugh Hefner changed the face of publishing, combining titillation with hard-edged reporting and serving up nudity with taste. His sw...

Reflections of Evil
2002
as Host
Julie, a teen who died from a PCP overdose in the early '70s, searches from beyond the grave for her younger brother Bob, who now in the '90s is an ob...

Nobody's Perfect - The Making of Some Like It Hot
2001
as Self
Documentary discussing the casting and making of "Some Like It Hot", the film voted as the Best Comedy ever made by the American Film Institute.

Rescued from the Closet
2001
as Self
Rescued from the Closet is a 2001 documentary consisting of interviews originally recorded for the 1995 film The Celluloid Closet. It explores the his...

Tony Curtis on 'Some Like It Hot'
2001
as Self
Leonard Maltin interviews Tony Curtis on his experience filming 'Some Like It Hot'.

Tony Curtis on 'Some Like It Hot'
2001
Thanks
Leonard Maltin interviews Tony Curtis on his experience filming 'Some Like It Hot'.

Play It to the Bone
1999
as Tony Curtis (Ringside Fan)
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 unava...

Roxanne's Best Christmas Ever
1998
as Bernard (voice)
Roxanne is a dog who wants a great Christmas tree. She can't find it. What will she do? Have the best Christmas ever! That's what!

Louis & Frank
1998
as Lenny Star Springer
Third-rate doo-wop singers making a comeback hook up with a campy manager who books them to perform in drag.

Stargames
1998
as King Fendel
A young space prince on the run from an evil space villain, stranded on Earth and waiting for his grandfather the king to rescue him, befriends an Ear...

Elvis Meets Nixon
1997
as Tony Curtis
A "mockumentary" about Elvis's real-life trip to the White House to become a federal marshal under the DEA

The Continued Adventures of Reptile Man
1997
as Jack Steele
A satire about an actor from the 1960s coming to terms with the pressures of today's entertainment industry.

Bounty Hunters 2: Hardball
1997
as Wald
Incompatible fugitive recovery agents, the flighty Jersey Bellini and his more serious-minded female partner, B.B., have, for the last time, ticked of...

The Celluloid Closet
1996
as Self
What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serv...

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995
as Self
The story of actor Roger Moore, including clips from his movies, television shows and interviews with the actor, his family and acquaintances.

The Immortals
1995
as Dominic
An elaborate heist unites 8 strangers in a simultaneous assault on targets all over the city- and explodes in a hailstorm of gunfire and high-speed ch...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
1994
as Johnny Steele
The alleged suicide of a gubernatorial candidate triggers a series of mysterious deaths leading to the governor's mansion, and "Wild" Bill McKenzie, a...

Bandit: Beauty and the Bandit
1994
as Lucky Bergstrom
Bandit, always willing to help a lady, bites off more than he can chew when he helps a lady who is on the run from the mob. Nuns and nudists cross pat...

A Century of Cinema
1994
as Self
A look back at the first 100 years of the movies.

Naked in New York
1993
as Carl Fisher
Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while fa...

The Mummy Lives
1993
as Aziru / Dr. Mohassid
An Egyptian noble, sentenced to death for a forbidden affair, returns from the grave 3,000 years later and becomes obsessed with a woman whom he think...

Christmas in Connecticut
1992
as Alexander Yardley
Elizabeth is the star of a successful cooking show and author of several cookbooks. But when her manager, Alexander sees forest ranger Jefferson, who ...

Center of the Web
1992
as Stephen Moore
An actor 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 ...

Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
1991
as Narrator (voice) / Self
This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He was...

Prime Target
1991
as Copella
Maverick Cop John Bloodstone is taken off suspension to ferry a Mob Boss into custody. But all is not what it seems.....

Thanksgiving Day
1990
as Max Schloss
Light-hearted spoof about a dysfunctional upper-income family who have to come to terms with family and business problems around the titular holiday.

Lobster Man from Mars
1990
as J.P. Shelldrake
A young film student tries to sell his weird movie to a desperate film producer who is in need of a tax write-off. The producer screens the film "Lobs...

Walter and Carlo in America
1989
as WIlly La Rouge
The steward Walter and the cobbler Carlo is tasked to provide not the Little, but the High Mermaid to two agents in Kennedy airport in New York. Alrea...

Midnight
1989
as Mr. B
The sultry Midnight, late-night horror movie hostess, has the highest rated show on TV. Mr. B is scheming to steal the rights to the show. The tug of ...

Tarzan in Manhattan
1989
as Archimedes Porter
The ape man flies to New York, where cabby Jane and her father help him rescue Cheetah from a madman.

The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
1988
as Mr. Cornfield
An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentr...

Sparky's Magic Piano
1987
A boy becomes a virtuoso pianist, but when he gets too big-headed the piano decides to teach him a lesson.

Murder in Three Acts
1986
as Charles Cartwright
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural unt...

Banter
1986
as Charles Foster
An alcoholic partier becomes a paranoid maniac when a manuscript that predicts real-life horrors takes possession of his mind.

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
1986
as Self
Among the legends of Hollywood, George Pal takes his place as a true visionary, an innovator and a showman who profoundly shaped the art of motion pic...

Club Life
1986
as Hector
A young man from a small town goes to Hollywood to make his fortune. He gets hired as a bouncer at a disco club, but soon finds himself caught up in d...

Mafia Princess
1986
as Sam Giancana
Looks at the life of mafia boss Salvatore Giancana. Especially his troubled relationship with his family.

Insignificance
1985
as The Senator
Four 1950s cultural icons who conceivably could have met but probably didn't, fictionally do so in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually in...

Half Nelson
1985
Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor...

Where Is Parsifal?
1984
as Parsifal Katzanella-Boden
Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky guests. But to pay off his mounting debts, he mus...

BrainWaves
1983
as Dr. Clavius
After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months and her doctors want to try a new procedure on her. To regain her consciousness, they stimulate ...

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...

Balboa
1983
as Ernie Stoddard
A battle between a man's determination to bring legal gambling to an island off the California coast and a local councilman's equally strong determina...

Black Commando
1982
as Col. Iago
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio...

Portrait of a Showgirl
1982
as Joey DeLeon
The story of three Las Vegas showgirls, each at a different stage in her career.

Magic with the Stars
1982
as Harry Houdini (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood celebrities assist magicians in a program of magic and illusion.

The Million Dollar Face
1981
as Chester Masterson
Tony Curtis is the ruthless head of a cosmetics firm, Kiss of Gold, locked in fierce competition with his arch-rival, Glamour, Inc., that happens to b...

Inmates: A Love Story
1981
as Flanagan
Accountant Roy is sentenced to prison because he cooked up balances. He hopes that his companions, who profited from his cheat, will help him to a rev...

The Mirror Crack'd
1980
as Martin N. Fenn
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

It Rained All Night the Day I Left
1980
as Robert Talbot
A tough rich female ranch owner in Africa wants to cut off the water supply to the locals, since she holds them responsible for the murder of her husb...

The Scarlett O'Hara War
1980
as David O. Selznick
The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Little Miss Marker
1980
as Blackie
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in the 1930s. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change...

The Masqueraders
1980
as Danny Wilde
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investig...

Title Shot
1979
as Frank Renzetti
In Toronto, Canada, a troubled police detective investigates fixed betting and corruption in the world of heavyweight boxing. He uncovers a plot by a ...

Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration
1979
as Self
A salute to Playboy Magazine on the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary, hosted by founding publisher Hugh Hefner and an all-male guest list.

Death Becomes Me
1979
as Danny Wilde/Aunt Sophie Schwartz
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investig...

The Users
1978
as Randy Brent
A beautiful girl from a small town with dreams of making it in Hollywood marries an actor whose career is fading, then schemes to get him back into th...

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
1978
as Marvin Lazar
A small time promotor/hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which spa...

The Manitou
1978
as Harry Erskine
A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.

Sextette
1978
as Alexei Karansky
Glamorous silver screen sex symbol Marlo Manners is enjoying her honeymoon with Sir Michael Barrington, husband number six. As luck would have it, an ...

The Last Appointment!
1977
as Danny Wilde
Two jet-setting playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes. Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie.

Casanova & Co.
1977
as Giacomo Casanova / Giacomino
While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Meanwh...

The Last Tycoon
1976
as Rodriguez
Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.

The Switch
1976
as Danny Wilde
Our heroes find themselves at the famed Cannes Film Festival to help foil a plot to murder a former American union boss cum government witness, Kyle S...

The Count of Monte-Cristo
1975
as Fernand Morcerf Mondego
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend...

Lepke
1975
as Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter
Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal ca...

Sporting Chance
1975
as Danny Wilde
Life in the fast lane becomes deadly for Wilde and Sinclair when the mob tries to "fix" the sport of high-speed racing. Wilde then finds himself mixed...

London Conspiracy
1974
as Danny Wilde
Life is never dull where Lord Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde are concerned. But who would expect dire danger, hilarious though it may be, to face them...

Mission: Monte Carlo
1974
as Danny Wilde
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys investigate crimes along the French Riviera.

The Third Girl from the Left
1973
as Joey Jordan
A chorus girl comes to the realization that she is not getting any younger and that her longtime relationship with a nightclub singer is going nowhere...

The Persuaders!
1973
as Danny Wilde
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investig...

Norman Jewison, Film Maker
1971
as Self (uncredited)
Toronto-born Norman Jewison first gained prominence producing for Canadian television, then went on to greater success making Hollywood theatrical fea...

Norman Jewison, Film Maker
1971
Thanks
Toronto-born Norman Jewison first gained prominence producing for Canadian television, then went on to greater success making Hollywood theatrical fea...

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970
as Shannon Gambroni
War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. Brian Keith is an officer who tries t...

You Can't Win 'Em All
1970
as Adam Dyer
During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as...

Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969
as Chester Schofield
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farc...

The Boston Strangler
1968
as Albert DeSalvo
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 ...

Rosemary's Baby
1968
as Donald Baumgart (voice) (uncredited)
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the pur...

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
1967
as Guerrando da Montone
A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.

Don't Make Waves
1967
as Carlo Cofield
Carlo Cofield vacations to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going local culture, getting entangled in two beachside ...

Don't Make Waves
1967
Executive Producer
Carlo Cofield vacations to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going local culture, getting entangled in two beachside ...

Arrivederci, Baby!
1966
as Nick Johnson
Nick tries to kill his wife to get her money, but when learning of this, she plans the same for him!

Not With My Wife, You Don't
1966
as Tom Ferris
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 ...

Not With My Wife, You Don't
1966
Executive Producer
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 ...

Chamber of Horrors
1966
as Mr. Julian
A one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes...

Boeing, Boeing
1965
as Bernard Lawrence
Living in Paris, journalist Bernard has devised a scheme to keep three fiancées: Lufthansa, Air France and British United. Everything works fine as lo...

The Great Race
1965
as The Great Leslie
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...

Sex and the Single Girl
1964
as Bob Weston
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurl...

Sex and the Single Girl
1964
Executive Producer
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurl...

Goodbye Charlie
1964
as George Wellington Tracy
When a cavorting Hollywood writer is killed by the angry husband of a woman he was having an affair with, he comes back as a spirit in the form of a b...

Wild and Wonderful
1964
as Terry Williams
Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her ...

Paris When It Sizzles
1964
as Actor Portraying Maurice or Philippe (uncredited)
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been in Paris supposedly workin...

Captain Newman, M.D.
1963
as Cpl. Jackson "Jake" Leibowitz
In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital i...

Captain Newman, M.D.
1963
Executive Producer
In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital i...

The List of Adrian Messenger
1963
as Organ Grinder
Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who ...

40 Pounds of Trouble
1962
as Steve McCluskey
Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.

Taras Bulba
1962
as Andrei Bulba
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for hi...

The Outsider
1961
as Ira Hamilton Hayes
Ira Hayes, a young Pima Indian, enlists in the Marine Corps. At boot camp, he is shunned and mocked by everyone, aside from a Marine named Sorenson, w...

The Great Impostor
1960
as Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. / Martin Donner / Dr. Gilbert / Ben. W. Stone / Dr. Joseph Mornay / Robert Boyd Hammnd
Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite succ...

Pepe
1960
as Tony Curtis
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. ...

Spartacus
1960
as Antoninus
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena,...

The Rat Race
1960
as Pete Hammond Jr.
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance ...

Who Was That Lady?
1960
as David Wilson
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story tha...

People, Hopes, Medals
1960
as Self
A documentary covering the 1960 Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, California.

Operation Petticoat
1959
as Lieutenant Nicholas Holden
A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.

Some Like It Hot
1959
as Joe (Josephine)
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join a...

The Perfect Furlough
1958
as Cpl. Paul Hodges
A love-starved soldier stationed at an Arctic base wins a furlough in Paris, but a pretty, no-nonsense military psychologist is ordered to accompany h...

The Defiant Ones
1958
as John 'Joker' Jackson
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.

Kings Go Forth
1958
as Caporal Britt Harris
When Harris applies for the position of a radioman in Loggins' army unit, he is hired immediately. While on a mission together in France, they both fa...

The Vikings
1958
as Eric
Einar, brutal son of the viking Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with clever slave Eric, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.

The Vikings
1958
Executive Producer
Einar, brutal son of the viking Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with clever slave Eric, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.

Sweet Smell of Success
1957
as Sidney Falco
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't contro...

Sweet Smell of Success
1957
Executive Producer
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't contro...

The Midnight Story
1957
as Joe Martini
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...

Mister Cory
1957
as Cory
An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.

The Rawhide Years
1956
as Ben Matthews
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galen...

Trapeze
1956
as Tino Orsini
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a ...
Nightmare
1956
as Tony
10-minute short Nightmare, with Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.

The Square Jungle
1955
as Eddie Quaid / Packy Glennon
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.

Allen in Movieland
1955
as Self
TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title role in "The Benny Goodman Story."

The Purple Mask
1955
as Rene de Traviere / The Purple Mask
France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distre...

Six Bridges to Cross
1955
as Jerry Florea
Follow the evolution of a small time juvenile delinquent hood to a big time racketeer. Based on the famous 1950 Brinks Robbery in Boston that netted t...

So This Is Paris
1954
as Joe Maxwell
Three sailors on leave head for Paris with one thing on their minds.
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954
as Self
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Acade...

The Black Shield of Falworth
1954
as Myles Falworth
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 w...

Johnny Dark
1954
as Johnny Dark
A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George Sherman's 1954 film stars Tony Curtis, Piper Laur...

Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood
1954
Miss Glucksman, teacher of Englewood Liberty school, visits Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, and Jerry Lewis to make a short film for her students.

Beachhead
1954
as Burke
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, ...

Forbidden
1953
as Eddie Darrow
Eddie Darrow, seeking a mobster's widow in Macao, gets involved in a casino owner's affairs.

The All American
1953
as Nick Bonelli
A family tragedy causes a college football quarterback to re-think his goals in life.

Houdini
1953
as Harry Houdini
By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackl...

The World's Most Beautiful Girls
1953
as Self
When 78 beauties are assembled from the far corners of the globe in order to select the most beautiful girl in the world, the results are bound to be ...

Son of Ali Baba
1952
as Kashma Baba
In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl w...

Flesh and Fury
1952
as Paul Callan
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...

No Room for the Groom
1952
as Alvah Morrell
A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding night arise from illness, her manipulative mother, and a h...

Meet Danny Wilson
1952
as Nightclub Patron
A lounge singer sees his career skyrocket after he signs a contract for a mobster nightclub owner.
An Eye for an Eye
1952
An Eastman Color short with Leigh and Curtis as a couple dealing with suspicions of infidelity.

Come Back Little Shiksa
1952
A Jerry Lewis directed home movie remake of the Burt Lancaster drama Come Back Little Sheba. Dean Martin stars as an alcoholic surgeon who fights the ...

The Re-Inforcer
1951
as Baffo
A Jerry Lewis home movie remake of Humphrey Bogart's The Enforcer. Joe Lasagna (Dean Martin)'s reign as a mob boss is threatened by new blood Baffo (T...

The Prince Who Was a Thief
1951
as Julna
An Arabian prince, kidnapped at birth and raised as a thief, plots to regain his throne from his evil uncle in this colorful costume adventure.
Fairfax Avenue
1951
Janet Leigh commands her close-up as the faux Norma Desmond character in what an elaborate title sequence identifies as “the Jewish Sunset Boulevard.”...

Kansas Raiders
1950
as Kit Dalton
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even...

Winchester '73
1950
as Doan
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...

Sierra
1950
as Brent Coulter (as Anthony Cutis)
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change ...

I Was a Shoplifter
1950
as Pepe
A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.

Francis
1950
as Captain Jones
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 a...

Woman in Hiding
1950
as Dave Shaw (voice) (uncredited)
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if n...

The Lady Gambles
1949
as Bellboy (as Anthony Curtis)
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the ca...

Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949
as Joey Hyatt (as Anthony Curtis)
A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.

City Across the River
1949
as Mitch (as Anthony Curtis)
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 invol...

Criss Cross
1949
as Gigolo (uncredited)
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border
1949
How to Smuggle the Hernia Across the Border is a 1949 American short comedy film directed by Jerry Lewis and starring Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, and To...