Legendary actor Tony Curtis is no more

He died of cardiac arrest in his sleep at his Las Vegas home on the night of 29th Sept.

Curtis was married six 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.

Self Portrait

"My father leaves behind a legacy of great performances in movies and in his paintings and assemblages," Jamie Lee Curtis said in a statement.He did both screen comedy and drama together and became the most sought after star in Hollywood. Though a romantic hero,  he played a variety of roles.

Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz in 1925. He received an Academy Award nomination in 1959 for his role in Stanley Kramer’s ``The Defiant Ones`` alongside Sidney Poitier.

Throughout his life, 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.

-StarBuzz weekly, Toronto