Tony Curtis, Hollywood Icon, Dies at 85

[IE]

Tony Curtis, a classically handsome movie star who earned an Oscar nomination as an escaped convict in Stanley Kramer?s 1958 movie ?The Defiant Ones,? but whose public preferred him in comic roles in films like ?Some Like It Hot? (1959) and ?The Great Race? (1965), died Wednesday of a cardiac arrest in his Las Vegas area home. He was 85.

His death was confirmed by the Clark County coroner, The Associated Press reported.

As a performer, Mr. Curtis drew first ... cont'

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/movies/01curtis.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

 

[RollTide72]

Some Like It Hot is still one of my favorite movies.

 

[vinnie]

R.I.P

 

[AR182]

Some Like It Hot is still one of my favorite movies.

Love this movie also....he was a very likeable actor....

One of his best acting jobs was in a very good movie that he made where he played a racist escaped prisoner, attached by handcuffs to a black prisoner....Can't remember the name of the movie....

 

[gardenweasel]

Love this movie also....he was a very likeable actor....

One of his best acting jobs was in a very good movie that he made where he played a racist escaped prisoner, attached by handcuffs to a black prisoner....Can't remember the name of the movie....

"the defiant ones"(w/sidney poitier)......great flick,bud......

i`m spartacus !!...one of the all-time great lines...

 

[MadJack]

The Great Houdini is what I most remember him from.

RIP

 

[JT]

I really liked 'The Vikings' with Kirk Douglas and Janet Leigh. One of the all time best movie scores.

Valhalla bitches! kurby

 

[Old School]

The Great Houdini is what I most remember him from.

RIP

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[Old School]

she this if you want to see Tony as his finest..

this flic is great..

 

[Mjolnir]

He was awesome.
One of my fave's was a bad horror movie from the 70's "The Manitou"
I love cheesy horror movies from that era and he was so cool in it.
:toast: to a really Cool Dude!