Tony Curtis Biography

Fast Facts

• In 1945, witnessed the surrender of Japan from a mile away aboard his naval vessel, the USS Proteus
• Used the G
• I
• Bill to attend acting school after leaving the Navy
• Signed with Universal Studios in 1948, earning a salary of $75 a week
• Received his only Oscar nomination for 1958's The Defiant Ones, in which he and Sidney Poitier star as prisoners on a desperate break for freedom while chained together
• Is one of the images that make up the album cover for The Beatles' Sgt
• Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Spent much of his free time on sets sketching and painting, and considers art to be his second career
• His work has been displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan and Harrods of London
• Released his autobiography, American Prince: A Memoir, in 2008
• Owned the Shiloh Horse Rescue and Sanctuary, which cares for abused, abandoned and neglected horses