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Michael Curtiz
Peter Lorre (real name: Laszlo Lowenstein)

Who am I missing?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

good question! i just made a hungarian movie myself! actually i've made two hungarian movies come to think

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

isn't michael curtiz like the most overlooked director ever? workmanlike my ass!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

use one Wikipedia, dude.

• William Fox, founder of Fox studios
• Éva Gábor, actress
• Magda Gábor, actress
• Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress
• Korda Sándor (Alexander Korda), producer
• Kovács László, cinematographer and multiple Oscar award winner
• Ernie Kovacs, actor and innovative televison producer
• Bela Lugosi (1882 - 1956) (born Blaskó Béla Ferenc Dezső), actor
• George Pál, producer, inventor of stop-motion animation and multiple Oscar award winner
• Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures; produced first full-length motion picture
• Andrew Vajna, (1944 - )producer, Hollywood legend: president of Cinergi Productions, co-founder of Carolco Pictures

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Stence. I'll try and avoid pestering people with threads like these in the future.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

oh well now this would be a good avenue to discuss Hungarians in Hollywood and whatnot, so don't think of it as "pestering," brody.

Lots of those dudes (mostly dudes, ain't it?) I don't know, though, so somebody should come school us.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

what, no Mickey Hargitay? Or Mariska, for that matter.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

you can add them at wikipedia, you know.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait, Mariska's dad might not be Mickey.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

László Kovacs, cinematographer and Vilmos Zsigsmond, cinematographer, are key figures. both left hungary in 1956 smuggling film of the suppression of the uprising. they ended up first with corman then with corman disciples like fonda, hopper, jack nicholson -- their verite look is crucial to the 70s hollywood cinema.

― henry miller, Friday, 7 January 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

Vajna, hehe

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Tony Curtis, real name Bernard Schwartz, was born one of three sons of
a tailor in the Bronx, of Jewish-Hungarian stock.

― Mateo, Friday, 7 January 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

oh good call!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

(The yes, I know, fictional) Keyser Soze was Hungarian, yeah?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

http://lileks.com/institute/publicity/gaborshirt.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

At this point I am forced to type:
M0v3 teh c4+!

László Kovacs, cinematographer
This caused me quite a bit of confusion once because in the film Breathless the Jean-Paul Belmondo character uses László Kovacs as an alias. I finally learned that, in Hungarian

László Kovacs = John Smith

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I remember reading in reviews of "The Pianist" that Adrien Brody's mother, Village Voice photographer Sylvia Plachy, is a Hungarian refugee.

My grandfather had a whole bunch of friends called Lazlo Kovacs or Svabo (White), so they all had funny nicknames.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

http://us.imdb.com/SearchBios?budapest,+hungary&skip=100

Preston Sturges' 'The Good Fairy' is based on Ferenc Molnar's play. Molnar is additionally seen as an inspiriation for Lubitsch. 'Shop Around the Corner' (and all subsequent versions such as 'You've Got Mail')is absed upon a play by Nikolaus (Miklos) Laszlo.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

And how could we forget "Showgirls" and "Basic Instinct" writer Joe Eszterhas?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Bela Tarr

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

"Hollywood"

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

And how could we forget "Showgirls" and "Basic Instinct" writer Joe Eszterhas?

Willpower. Sheer willpower.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

OMG Harry Houdini was in 6 movies! That's the neatest thing I've leanred today. I want to see one of them now.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

I know exactly what happened. I've been here too long.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Don Ameche played a Hungarian named Tibor Czerny in 1939's 'Midnight'. It was just on the other night.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Another great non-Hollywood film Hungarian that I am going to arbitrarily insert in here, using my God-like powers as thread creator:

Josef Kosma, Composer. Worked with many great French directors on many classic films. Composer (with lyricist Jacques Prévert) of "Autumn Leaves."

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Capa was the uncredited still photographer on 'Notorious' and credited one on 'Beat the Devil'.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ghosts.org/verhoeven/joeeszterhas.jpg

Joe Eszterhas!!!!!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

whoops just noticed jocelyn's post!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

John Alton!

John Alton A.S.C. (October 5, 1901 – June 2, 1996), born Johann (hung: Jenö) Altmann, in Sopron/Ödenburg, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, was an American cinematographer.[1] He was the first hungarian-born who won an Academy award in cinematography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alton

Please click on wikipedia link, if only to see his picture.

― Poldark City (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 August 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago)

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