Tony Curtis
 

Legendary Hollywood Actor, Tony Curtis has died at the age of 85 RIP

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He was brilliant in one of my favourite all time films, which I never tire of watching, Some Like It Hot.

RIP

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Loved the guy, 85 aint a bad innings though R.I.P.

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I'm spartucus and the vikings top films enough said.

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I loved him in the Long Ships with Kirk Douglas

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Pervert......still theres a lot of that kinda thing at sea.:D

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Not in Viking long ships there isn't:p

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Gone, but his hair will live forever.

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His real name is Bernard Schwartz he changed it to Curtis to make him sound more American. His parents were Hungarian and he only spoke that language till he was 5 or so - apparently.

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Think theres a lot of yankie actors in that boat, Arny was another

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Kirk Douglas was originally called Issur Danielovitch - his parents were Jewish...

Kirk Douglas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Don't think changing his name stopped him or his kids from being Jewish :D

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Although I believe his children 'married out' of the religion.

Apparently Michael's other half isn't Jewish, and hails from Wales.

Nerys Hughes, Ruth Madoc, Angharad Rees, Windsor Davies?

No, can't remember their name.

:D

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Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske her parents were also Jewish Immigrants according to Wikipedia.

I thought that being Jewish meant you followed the religion? I don't know if Kirk Douglas was a practicing Jew, but you never know.

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Yeh your partly right but Arny never changed his name he was always called that. :)

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You've been googling as well then:D

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On another web site I frequent there was a thread about actors and their original names

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Oh yeh checking all the names of actors! See if they are Jewish lol :confused::eek::D

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Whats that got to do with the price of fish:D

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I think you'll find most American actors have close migrant roots.

Off the top of my head I can't think of many Native American Hollywood stars.

:rolleyes:

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The only one that comes to mind is Elvis Presley, apprently he had a 1/4 Native American blood in him. Native Americans don't make it probably because of role discrimination.

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Hollywood, in it's hay day, didn't have much idea about authenticity, as far as race was concerned.

In most classic westerns, they used tons of make-up, to turn those pale faces into naughty 'Red Indians'.

:rolleyes:

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They idn't need much make up on chisel faced Jack Palance:D

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I just did a quick google check and it appears Kevin Costner is 1/4 Cherokee!

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John Wayne (The Duke) was born in Winterset Iowa in 1907, his birth name was Marion Robert Morrison, later changing Robert to Mitchell, both his parents were born in the USA

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Funny you should say :D Jack Palance ain't his real name, his parents are Ukrainian and birth name - Volodymyr Palahniuk - he probably looks a bit "indian" as he may have some Siberian blood in him :eek: