Obituaries

Actor Tony Curtis, 85, has died at his Henderson, Nevada, home. The cause of death was cardiac arrest


He appeared in many movies over the decades, with his being most popular in the 1950s. He was also part of a supercouple when he was married to the late Janet Leigh until they divorced. They had two children including actress Jamie Lee Curtis. He had five other children.

Some of Curtis' best-known films include Some Like It Hot and The Defiant Ones.

He was even "nominated" for a Golden Turkey Award as the worst actor of all time by the Medved brothers in their book The Golden Turkey Awards, but Curtis lost out to Richard Burton.

Here is a quote from the obituary:

After his star faded in the late 1960s, Curtis shifted to lesser roles. With jobs harder to find, he fell into drug and alcohol addiction.

"From 22 to about 37, I was lucky," Curtis told Interview magazine in the 1980s, "but by the middle '60s, I wasn't getting the kind of parts I wanted, and it kind of soured me. ... But I had to go through the drug inundation before I was able to come to grips with it and realize that it had nothing to do with me, that people weren't picking on me."

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