Suffers from fear of flying.
Tony Curtis 'appears' as the Stone Age Celebrity "Stony Curtis" in the cartoon, The Flintstones.
Tony Curtis and his daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis, took an interest in their family's Hungarian-Jewish heritage, and helped finance the rebuilding of the "Great Synagogue" in Budapest, Hungary.
Tony Curtis enjoyed painting, and since the early 1980s, painted as a second career. His work commands more than $25,000 a canvas now. In the last years of his life, he concentrated on painting rather than movies. A surrealist, Curtis claimed "Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Magritte" as influences. "I still make movies but I'm not that interested in them any more. But I paint all the time." In 2007, his painting The Red Table was on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. His paintings can also be seen at the Tony Vanderploeg Gallery in Carmel, California.
Tony Curtis studied at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German stage director Erwin Piscator, along with Elaine Stritch, Walter Matthau, and Rod Steiger.
Tony Curtis was immortalized as "Stony Curtis," a voice-over guest star on The Flintstones.
Tony Curtis was married five times. His first wife was actress Janet Leigh, to whom he was married from 1951 to 1962, and with whom he fathered actresses Kelly and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Tony Curtis' mother had once made an appearance as a participant on the television show You Bet Your Life, hosted by Groucho Marx.
Tony Curtis's uncredited screen debut came in Criss Cross (1949) playing a rumba dancer.
Was originally considered for one of the leading roles of Lady L (1965).
Was the inspiration for and voiced the character Stoney Curtis on an episode of "The Flintstones" (1960), along with Ann-Margret as Ann Marg-rock.
When Curtis and Leigh chose to get married, studio executives spent three days trying to talk him out of it, telling him he would be "poisoning himself at the box office." They threatened "banishment" back to the Bronx and the end of his budding career. In response, Curtis and Leigh decided to defy the studio heads and instead eloped and were married by a local judge in Greenwich Connecticut. Comedian and close friend Jerry Lewis came as a witness.
When Curtis was eight, he and his younger brother Julius were placed in an orphanage for a month because their parents could not afford to feed them.
When Tony Curtis turned 11, a friendly neighbor saved him from what he felt would have led to a life of delinquency, by sending him to a Boy Scout camp, where he was able to settle down and work off his energy.