Hollywood legend Tony Curtis dies, aged 85

The American actor and Hollywood legend Tony Curtis has died. His family said he died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Nevada. He was 85.


The actor had performed a variety of roles including a musician in women's clothing on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot alongside Marilyn Munroe and Jack Lemmon.
He also played more serious roles such as an escaped convict in The Defiant, a role in which he received an acedamy award.



He was born Bernard Schwartz, in the Bronx, New York, to parents of Hungarian-Jewish origin and had started his long career in 1949. In all he appeared in more than 100 films and had made numerous television programmes.

He was married six times, his first wife, and possibly most famous, was Janet Leigh. They married in 1951 and he fathered now famous actresses Jamie Lee and Kelly Curtis.