Tony Curtis: a life in pictures

Tony Curtis in 1950, at the start of his career Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar

Tony Curtis and Jan Sterling in Flesh and Fury (1952), directed by Joseph Pevney Photograph: The Kobal Collection/Universal

Tony Curtis with his wife Janet Leigh in 1954 Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar

Burt Lancaster, Gina Lollobrigida and Tony Curtis in a scene from Trapeze (1956) Photograph: AP

Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell Of Success (1957) Photograph: The Kobal Collection/United Artists

Tony Curtis with Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones (1958) Photograph: The Kobal Collection/United Artists

Tony Curtis with Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot (1959) Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features

Tony Curtis with Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot (1959) Photograph: The Kobal Collection/United Artists

Laurence Olivier and Tony Curtis in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960) Photograph: Cinetext/Allstar

Tony Curtis in The Outsider (1961) Photograph: The Kobal Collection/Universal

Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh with their children, Kelly, 5, and Jamie, 2, in 1961, prior to their departure to Argentinia where Curtis was to do location filming for Taras Bulba Photograph: AP

Tony Curtis in Taras Bulba (1962) Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar

Tony Curtis in The Boston Strangler (1968) Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

Tony Curtis in 1972 Photograph: AP

Tony Curtis and Roger Moore in the TV series The Persuaders Photograph: ITV /Rex Features

Tony Curtis in the TV series McCoy (1975) Photograph: NBCUphotobank/Rex Features

Tony Curtis with his wife Jill in 1999 Photograph: Graham Whitby-Boot/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar

Tony Curtis at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada in August 2006 Photograph: Dan Tuffs/Getty Images

Tony Curtis showcasing his artwork at an exhibition in Harrods in 2008 Photograph: Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images