Tony Curtis

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. Curtis and actress-activist Bo Derek met with Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA) in Washington, D.C., in May 2004 to discuss protecting horses. In July 2004, in a poll of industry experts conducted by Radio Times magazine, he was voted the 19th Most Powerful Person in Television Drama. Other notable roles include:. In March 2004, it was announced that Eccleston is to play the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the revival of the legendary BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, to be broadcast in 2005.

He is probably best known for his role in the 1959 film Some Like It Hot, co-starring with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. He won the RTS Best Actor award for a second time in 2003, this time for his performance in Flesh and Blood. His earliest credited role is in the 1949 film City Across the River. He did, however, triumph in the Best Actor categories at the 1997 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards and the Royal Television Society Awards, winning for Our Friends in the North. He was also married to actress Christine Kaufmann in the 1960s. His first nomination came in 1997 for Our Friends in the North, when he lost out to Nigel Hawthorne (for The Fragile Heart), and he was nominated again in 2004 for The Second Coming, this time being beaten by Bill Nighy (for State of Play). He has been married five times; his first wife was actress Janet Leigh, with whom he fathered actress Jamie Lee Curtis. A very highly-regarded actor, he has twice been nominated in the Best Actor category at the BAFTA Television Awards, the UK's premier TV awards ceremony.

Curtis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and received the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1995. On stage, his highest-profile production has been his starring role in Hamlet at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds in 2002. The West Yorkshire Playhouse is a favourite venue of his, and he most recently returned there in the new play Electricity, which ran in March and April 2004. Since at least the early 1980s Curtis has had a second career as a painter. He also finds time for the occasional light-hearted role, however, as his guest appearances in episodes of the comedy drama Linda Green (2001) and macabre sketch show The League of Gentlemen (2002) have shown. Curtis has also appeared frequently on television; he co-starred with Roger Moore in the TV series The Persuaders. These have included Clocking Off (2000) and Flesh and Blood (2002) for the BBC and Hillsborough (1997), a modern version of Othello (2002, playing 'Ben Jago', the Iago character) and the religious telefantasy epic The Second Coming (2003) for ITV. June 3, 1925 in the Bronx, New York), an actor who has appeared in over 100 films since 1949. Despite his successful film career, he has continued to appear in a variety of meaty television roles, racking up credits in some of the most challenging and thought-provoking British television dramas of recent years.

Tony Curtis is the stage name of Bernard Schwartz (b. He has starred alongside two major Hollywood actresses in smaller independent movies, playing opposite Renée Zellweger in A Price Above Rubies (1998) and Cameron Diaz in The Invisible Circus (2001). a stunt man in The Great Race (1965). His film career has since taken off with a variety of high-profile but never quite – except in one or two cases – really mainstream roles, including parts in Elizabeth (1998), eXistenZ (1999), Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000), The Others (2001), 24-Hour Party People (2002) and another Danny Boyle film, the horror movie 28 Days Later (2002). Ferdinand Waldo Demara, the title role of The Great Impostor (1962); and. The same year, he won the part of Nicky Hutchinson in the epic BBC drama serial Our Friends in the North, and it was the transmission of this production on BBC Two in 1996 that perhaps really made him into a household name in the UK. appearing as Antoninus in Spartacus (1960);. He appeared in the low-budget Danny Boyle film Shallow Grave in 1994, in which he co-starred with another up-and-coming young British actor by the name of Ewan McGregor.

Navy Lieutenant Nicholas Holden from that equally famous pink submarine SeaTiger in Operation Petticoat (1959);. However, it was a regular role in the TV series Cracker (1993-94) – culminating in his character's dramatic death in the second series – that made him a recognisable figure in the UK. his Oscar-nominated role in The Defiant Ones (1958);. He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and first came to public attention as Derek Bentley in the 1991 film Let Him Have It, based on true events. press agent Sidney Falco in Sweet Smell of Success (1957);. As a child his ambition was to play football for his beloved Manchester United, but he found himself to be a much better actor than he was a footballer, and inspired by television dramas such as Boys from the Blackstuff, he took to acting as his profession. Harry Houdini in the 1953 film Houdini;. Christopher Eccleston (born on 16 February 1964 in Salford, Lancashire, England, UK) is a British stage, television and film actor, best known for his roles in several high profile "prestige" films and television series.