Tony Curtis was born June 3rd 1925 in New York City as Bernard Schwartz to German speaking immigrants from the little Hungarian town Mátészalka
He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1958 for “The Defiant Ones”, but will probably be remembered best from the timeless Billy Wilder, an Austrian immigrant himself, classic movie: Some like it hot.
With Roger Moore he teamed up in a TV-Series “The Persuaders” which was not as much of a success in it’s original, but had such genius German translations improving the series, making it even funnier, that is became a hit in Germany and is still a beloved classic.
Via our reader Inga Bowyer: I remember him as a heart-throb in the 1950s who was married to the beautiful German actress, Christine Kauffmann: http://www.bz-berlin.de/leute/christine-kaufmann-ueber-tony-curtis-tod-article993213.html
Let’s take a trip down memory lane: