Tony Curtis--Rare TV Interview

Tony Curtis discusses his life and career in this half-hour interview with cable TV host Skip E Lowe.

[@jonathanlane5432]

I worked with Tony on a TV pilot around this time. He was very nice and friendly and did not have that typical big star ego.

[@Jimdunne_]

I find it fascinating how he came from humble beginnings in the Bronx of the working-class, Jewish Immigrant population. That I’m Irish makes this stand out to me

[@kiriforever1]

I've always enjoyed Tony Curtis movies and persona. He comes across as a very honest and good human being. No pretense about him. I enjoyed this interview very much. We should all heed his advise and live life in the present and life as much as possible.

[@katesage3221]

I could listen to Tony Curtis for hours. He was so interesting. 🌠

[@stewartmcrae8007]

I completely agree with you he was a class act

[@katesage3221]

❤🌠🙏

[@alandouglas255]

! Ann harding

[@steveconn1375]

Best interview with Tony being soo honest great actor legend

[@laurastone6578]

Tony has a great memory. Sharp as a tack.

[@steveoshow4832]

TC’s 94 autobiography was just great. An excellent read. Great seeing him here ( this would have been around 96, so he’s 71 ish here) He shines in this interview despite the poor interviewing style of the host, interrupted constantly, moving TC along just when he’s in full flow, but still he shines. Intelligent, very aware of his part in cinema. Some Like It Hot, Spartacus,The Defiant Ones, The Vikings, The Boston Strangler, The Persuaders reflect his wide range of acting skills. He really was the real deal.

[@rayjr62]

Agreed, it was an excellent read. But the interviewer was Skip E. Lowe, and that was just his style of interviewing, as annoying as he could sometimes be.

[@waynej2608]

His best performance was in Sweet Smell of Success, with Burt Lancaster, who was also great in it. Tony was a very talented actor, who didn't always get decent roles.

[@kajgenell]

So many fine observations by Tony. Love that persona.

[@128789842]

Undoubtedly a great actor.

[@freeroamer9146]

Remarkable man! His observations regarding alcohol and other substances are more revealing than any psychoanalyst can give.

[@maxwellworldwidehistorical3801]

Mr. Curtis was GREAT!!!!!

[@SAGHAJAR]

I always enjoy when Tony speaks as well as I enjoyed his movies.

[@saxonsteve]

This is a phenomenal interview! My dad took me to the movies 🎥 when I was kid and saw Lepke which was one of my first Tony Curtis movies 🎥. Some like it hot was an amazing movie 🎥. Rest In Peace, Mr. Curtis You certainly were one of great actors of your time!

[@bradthorson1782]

Lowe's voice, style, and mannerisms reminds me of Martin Short's Jiminy Glick character.. 😅 And like Jimimy, he interrupts, then abruptly switches the subject. Tony is one sharp and humble guy. Just wish Lowe would step back and lt him talk more.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Very valuable interview 👏 👍 🎭🎰

[@paulkitt2376]

Wonderful interview with Tony at his very best.

[@Balraj.G.]

Mankind has been bumping each other over for years, respect Toni Curtis! ✊🏽✊🏽

[@iap-ug3oy]

I went to see every film he made, its 2022 now and I am 82 and I miss all these real starts …Definitely don’t make them like this any more….

[@MrSari504]

exactly like you my favorite one is mister cory 1957 thank you tony rip

[@wandarask8444]

Absolutely I love all the older movies . My husband is 60 watches all the movies prior to the 1980s From Australia

[@maroonfist9831]

Brilliant actor!!

[@alainlusatti6670]

Very beautiful interview....

[@1stshepherd]

I'm a total Tony Curtis fan. If I wasn't so impressed with him, I could never have watched this interview. Too many interruptions 🤣. R.I.P. Tony Curtis, your films will keep you in our hearts 💕 ⚘️📺⚘️

[@garrison6863]

Amazing, how Skip got these people on his show. Only cable access. This is actually a good interview.

[@TheTVisions]

It's great yes, sadly he didn't know how to interview people.

[@leahjessop4669]

If people liked Tony in his own day as much as we do now, he would have won the medal of honor as the absolute best actor in the movie industry.

[@jhoffmann5105]

Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful interview💚💛💚

[@Fixingtodraw]

Tony Curtis is the movies

[@suspectdevice5644]

He certainly is a fascinating guy, very charismatic . . . An endearing character perhaps !

[@krisscanlon4051]

I watch these and utterly fascinated at Lowe's career etc...Curtis wow

[@linapagliari8003]

What a great guy tony curtis love ur honesty rip beautiful tony😔🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@kevinmurphy3464]

That was a nice little insight into Mr. Curtis. Seems like “stars” of his caliber wouldn’t appear on a cable channel, but he was quite thoughtful and engaging. As a kid growing up I loved him in the Great Race, Some Like It Hot, and Operation Petticoat.

[@charlenewebb5893]

Tony Curtis I have met him I have his autograph .Nice man

[@birdlover6842]

I met him as well and at 68 he looked great!

[@michaelklein5242]

I met him near the end of his life at a book signing. He was very kind, a true gentleman.

[@robertshanks3674]

people bag on skipe-e for his interview style and frequent interruptions..including me.. but he has the ability to book very prominent guests and, i must say i really get a good sense of their personalities because of his interview style.

[@piustwelfth]

This was one of Lowe's better interviews because there was some rapport/similar background between the two men. Tony Curtis did not develop the huge ego that affected some of his contemporaries.

[@anthonylilly6862]

I worked with Tony. Damn funny guy

[@massagetherapyforinjuriesf8197]

I have almost his personality.... I love you Tony Curtis.... you are one of my Favorites

[@cafeconlechegrl]

Skip looked young here….😢🧒🏼🙆🏻‍♀️👏🏼I miss him

[@bv6633]

The bait pic looks like it was from 20 years before the interview

[@garrywood5345]

Loved Him in The Persuaders and Taras Bulba 1962...😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@benjaminglover1570]

How good is this guy. Just a great honest human.

[@fflubadubb]

I was in love with him as a young girl ,he was so handsome on the big screen !

[@ternak001]

Great interview!

[@clayadams-el7072]

Tony one of my favorites..sharp mind..honest..real man. " ..didn't have to kiss or sleep with anyone.."

[@cynsterfoster2320]

Martin Short really captures Skippy’s persona with his Jiminy Glick character. The interruptions crack me up. Tony Curtis is a wealth of knowledge, that’s for sure. Hollywood Legend.

[@waynej2608]

Absolutely! 😅👍

[@frederickcombs8661]

great one

[@dylan3657]

Dr Tony Curtis prescribes Love and Laughter

[@Valerie-gn1rr]

Interesting guy Really enjoyed this!

[@SenorZorrozzz]

Once I could kind of get past the odd hair styles I began to enjoy this interviewer's programs. There is a very strong pattern to his method of questioning. It works well. He also keeps the interview moving along so well. Very brisk pace. Thanks so much for posting all of these. These are real interview shows. They are not puff pieces or what we have on US TV today, brief appearances by celebrities for the purpose of advertising something. Sad. We used to have interview programs. The best ones today are on in England.

[@carmenpeters728]

Don Diego Vega Odd hairstyles? Have you seen yours?

[@blackdogfive]

Powerful Messages, Always Outstanding Performances, Sadly like so many people Family is low on the list of what I am, Charity begins at home, then spreads.

[@TheGuillermo519]

How Skip Lowe managed to get all these big name stars on his strange cable access show is a mystery.

[@katesage3221]

However talented his guests were, 99% were has-beens. But I wonder who ever convinced the great Tony Curtis to appear on Skip E Lowe's show.

[@cookie5335]

Lou was a MAN

[@ginacrawford4577]

He is one of the worst interviewer's I've heard....Just talks over the top of every guest....Hopeless...

[@qgholway]

@@ginacrawford4577 i was going to say exactly this. and can't keep to any kind of thread. and he sounds like a woman taking the piss, at times.

[@MTknitter22]

He is honest about getting in movies cuz of the looks, why he was getting parts for awhile. Few will admit that especially ladies. But Tony worked and learned and he turned into a great actor.

[@KJ-xc6qs]

Loved sneaking him drinks at The Magic Castle. 🍾💋RIP

[@Valerie-gn1rr]

Really? when was this?

[@robertgd3429]

Really??? He was a recovering alcoholic. Sober.

[@KJ-xc6qs]

@@Valerie-gn1rr in the 1990s

[@KJ-xc6qs]

@@robertgd3429 except for vodka

[@jonidabraha979]

I love this interview. Also Tony confess about the death of Marilyn that was an accident and not murder. He is honest and realistic about holliwood bussines

[@Skidoo22]

Skip E Lowe, always bigger than the person he's interviewing. Aggressively curious, rubbery and answers his own questions. A class act. Funny too.

[@ketchup5344]

One of the better celebrity interviewers Ive seen or heard, interacts just the right amount and in an intelligent way. Tony Curtis 4 ever ✌🏽

[@katesage3221]

David Wilde. You're kidding, right?

[@stevielegend325]

Never knew how he thought only knew his name and face...boy is he interesting...real...and so human...interesting how 'we' can put movie stars...esp from this era....into being almost above human....however really no diff than you and me. And i like the way this interviewer asks questions very engaging

[@symunir9022]

The interviewer, Skip E Lowe, didn't need to say "right" a gazillion times, or interrupt Tony's flow of speech as often. If it were a chat off camera, Skip could have done it any way he pleased. With an audience, however, he could have skipped those quirks.

[@fasterpussycat2161]

Martin Short based his character Jiminy Glick, in part, on Skip.

[@519djw6]

It's still a wonderment to me that this "hanger-on" got so many well-known actors to submit to his interviews.

[@FRANKRIO-jv1sq]

💦😆💦 THE SON OF ALI BABA HA HAHAHA DATS A MOVIE? HEH HEH MARTIN SHORT SHOULD GO BACK SCTV THE TV OF ALL TIME BAR NONE.

[@FRANKRIO-jv1sq]

​@@519djw6 🥃👴🏻 RIGHT U R.

[@nancydevens1651]

Tony IS the movies !

[@ERICWAGNERSLUCID]

The definition of the word “mensch” TC

[@ocheadoga303]

The faces of people that once lived on the earth.

[@dashercronin]

Best Curtis interview I have seen. Hungarian Jewish background: wonderfully talented race of people which rubbed off on Curtis, obviously, artist on and off the screen. Read Hitler's Gift by Jean Medawar. Offers in-depth profiles of the talented Jewish scientists who fled Nazi Germany after Hitler's rise to power and assesses the seminal role these scientists played in turning the tide of World War II to the Allies favor and in transforming the evolution of twentieth-century science and technology. Amazing. Saw him filming once. Real pro.

[@michaelskibitiansky8773]

Ashkenazi Jews from Hungary would be a precise definition.

[@pinkcherries68]

He was Hungarian? I thought Italian??

[@billycharles]

Jiminy Glick interviews Tony Curtis

[@barbarahourigan8462]

❤️

[@Joshualbm]

Marin Short owes quite a lot to Skip.

[@justthink5854]

he was an excellent painter

[@ml2452]

But I want to know what Tony Curtis thought about Elvis!!!

[@petrarassfeld7269]

❤❤❤

[@emoney8098]

Skip s best interview s are the the one s where he does NOT touch his hair Tony not always an easy subject to keep on track but it happened here thanks to Skip.Tony s humanity and social conscious never wavered Took a real bad rap due to his drug problems R.i.P. Bernard Schwartz

[@519djw6]

"....do not touch his hair." Whatever do you mean?

[@symunir9022]

Marilyn's half-sister, Berniece, would differ with Tony on how Marilyn died. ("I don't think she committed suicide. It could have been an accident, because I had just talked to her a short time before. She told me what she had planned to do, she had just bought a new house and she was working on the curtains of the windows. She had so many things to look forward to and she was so happy." Source: Wiki) A documentary shown on mainstream TV and available on YT claims Marilyn's forensic evidence disappeared from the morgue locker over the weekend. Those who believe Marilyn committed suicide may want to investigate that claim, which seemed reliable enough. Why is her diary (or was it her psychologist's journal) unavailable to the public until 2039?

[@denniscerasoli6209]

There was a lot more surrounding Marilyn's death that Tony wouldn't know I respect his opinion but there is more to it.

[@danahsutton101]

interesting man. Poor interviewer. Ask a question and zip it.

[@photo161]

I enjoy this interviewer a lot. His enthusiasm is genuine and he really knows hie Tony Curtis. And don't worry about Tony. He's brilliant and fascinating and he can handle Skip's eager interruptions easily and turn them to his own advantage...A pro's Pro...

[@Trigger_000]

*His TV interviews are even rarer these days.*

[@gerrymcguire7521]

Jimmiiny flick exactly! Wantin to hear about his four strapping boys, morgan mason Matthew and modine!

[@bloodtypedating]

That cough spit it out

[@clayadams-el7072]

Jimmy Kimmel..impersonates Lowe as an interviewer..I didn't know it until now.hilarious..

[@ph.toomat5557]

One of the great actors, very good looking and Elvis copied his hairstyle. I'm a big fan of Tony Curtis.

[@BalanceTechDetroit]

Actually, Elvis copied the hairstyle of the Midnighters, as in Hank Ballard and The Midnighters. They are Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees. They were 'rounded up' to play at Elvis' coming home party when he returned from the military. They were touring and had a lay-over in Memphis. The state police came to their motel and requested they attend and play at the coming home party. They did, gladly, after getting over being 'invited' by the state police! Billy Davis was the lead guitar, he was a mentor to Hendrix too, and loved Elvis like everyone did. He wore his hair like that - mutton chops - actually until just about five years ago. The hairstyle came from the way Hank Ballard's band was wearing their hair just as Elvis returned from the military and could grow out his hair, he saw what the band he admired was wearing their hair.

[@stumack9755]

So did these 2 hook up after the interview?

[@mga5942]

Would be nice to know the original air date of these interviews

[@mollydion8311]

He married wife #6 Jill Vandenberg in 1998. He divorced wife #5 Lisa Deutsch in 1994. So this interview was between 1994 & 1998. Wish he was allowed to finish his sentences & tell some stories about his life.

[@gwenniegirl50]

@@mollydion8311 it seems Skip E Lowe's interviewing style was to rarely let the person finish a sentence, story, etc. i’m always amazed how he gets people to be on his shows because he is an awful interviewer IMO

[@waynej2608]

@@gwenniegirl50 I can't watch Skip E., and not think of Martin Short doing his Jimmy Glick character. He nails Skip E., all the way. Lmao.

[@gwenniegirl50]

@@waynej2608 supposedly the character was (at least partly) based on Skip E. Lowe

[@waynej2608]

@@gwenniegirl50 I'd even go further than 'partly'. I'd say Short transformed into this guy. Some exaggeration, duly noted. I just really get a kick out of it. 🤣

[@davidn7676]

Jiminy Glick: this interviwer.

[@jadezee6316]

camera is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to close does never create a good effect skip lowe.....for some reason feels the need to repeat words...to remind everyone he is still there and knows things tony really tries to be honest and is more intelligent thus perceptive then he seems with this fool lowe who never learned the art of interviewing is the art of listening. NO WAY I COULD EVER WATCH THIS GUY AGAIN. he is annoying... distracting to the point of creating anger

[@BluesBoy-ij2rb]

Two knights in a row, I'm working for the whole week .............had me laughing!!!!!............thank Tony.............. Erik Von

[@retrothingz]

Worst celebrity interviewer I've ever seen or heard. Interrupts far too much.

[@poopypants814]

He doesn't even care about his answers. Reminds me of Martin Short's Jiminy Glick

[@lee-annhammond6106]

What year was this ? Does anyone know

[@philthompson8574]

I wish this interviewer was stop interrupting

[@juliannarciso3876]

He kind of looks like Sylvester Stallone a little

[@maureenrichards2560]

He does!

[@FRANKRIO-jv1sq]

🥃👴🏻 U NEED GLASSES

[@FRANKRIO-jv1sq]

​@@maureenrichards2560 👴🏻🥃 IS NOT

[@maureenrichards2560]

@@FRANKRIO-jv1sq They all start to look similar with all the plastic surgery.

[@FRANKRIO-jv1sq]

@@maureenrichards2560 👱🏻‍♀️ THEY DO NOT. 👱🏻‍♀️ U NEED GLASSES

[@emmagoldman6591]

any idea what year this interview?

[@myahollandia3552]

1998 i think

[@stewartmcrae8007]

Did The Guy Really Say Wonderful when Tony Mentioned his son died of a heroin overdose

[@vipereagle7446]

Timestamps

[@stewartmcrae8007]

@@vipereagle7446 around the 10.50 Mark

[@michaelklein5242]

It did sound like it--surely not intentional.

[@stewartmcrae8007]

I sincerely hope not Tony was a class act for not responding to that I am not sure that I would have kept my cool

[@bubbleguppy1524]

You can remember to talk shit about Marilyn Monroe, but can’t remember your first wife. Dude,please!

[@holaatyaboy6765]

America’s Kenny Hotz

[@tbec3011]

If they had present-day social media (beyond VCR when this was filmed), "Interviewer" Skippy would have booted on his a**.

[@mikaelvasararadiopromo9758]

15,58 please let Toni talk

[@luckyescape2708]

13:15 "what makes your last wife so good for you Tony?" you mean apart from the fact she's 45 years younger?

[@Valerie-gn1rr]

Lol!

[@zz424]

Why does he always interrupt him?

[@SenorZorrozzz]

Tony messed up his life and a few others with drugs. He over came it. Good.

[@alwilson3204]

Don Diego Vega Yes, and maybe he had to be 'a tough kid' when he did something like campaigning for people quitting smoking and then getting caught smoking pot!

[@rosykatzCATS]

I believe Jeff Chandler was 42 not 36 when he died. He was also a cross dresser.

[@FRANKRIO-jv1sq]

🥃👴🏻 NO, HE DID PEYTON PLACE 2

[@throwball2248]

Love rhis story two Frenchman went ro Budapest with a picture of a metal structure rhey wanted to build the village spokesperson said we dont that thing built here get out of here , turns out to be the Eiffel Tower

[@daphnenapier1102]

Tony was so good-looking and a great actor He had children but had no interest in them and didn't include them in his will when he died He doesn't seem that kind of person not to bother with his family. Glad he said the academy's are not nice. I agree with Tony when he said her death was accident .Marilyn's

[@Daysleeper1000]

Jiminy Glick is all I can see

[@FRANKRIO-jv1sq]

🥃👴🏻 ALL I SEE IS MARTIN SHORT.

[@ml2452]

If I have to hear Lowe say sex one more time I’m going to puke on my phone

[@christopherallen9580]

Curtis and George Maharis could be brothers

[@shaystern2453]

creepy closeups. this guy was the inspiration for martin short's jiminy glick

[@robbpowell194]

Fine actor. Less fine man

[@hiramnoone]

Skip interrupts: "Tell me about the Catskills. I worked the Catskills too!" Nobody gives a shit, Skip.

[@sherryhesner5940]

😉