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- Queen Maria-Hendrika of the Belgians was born on 23 August 1836 in Budapest, Hungary. She was married to King Leopold II. She died on 19 September 1902 in Spa, Belgium.
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Victor Langer was born on 14 December 1842 in Pest, Hungary [now Budapest, Hungary]. He is known for Die Liebe der Brüder Rott (1929). He died in 1902 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary].- Adolf Link was born on 15 September 1851 in Pest, Hungary [now Budapest, Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Sunday (1915), The Siren's Song (1915) and The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1924). He died on 23 September 1933 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Bernhard Buchbinder was born on 6 July 1854 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a writer, known for Die Försterchristl (1952), On a jeho sestra (1931) and Versuchen Sie meine Schwester (1931). He died in June 1922 in Vienna, Austria.- Aranka Hegyi was born on 25 May 1855 in Pest, Hungary [now part of Budapest, Hungary]. She died on 9 June 1906 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary].
- Julius Herska was born on 1 October 1859 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a director, known for Der Kaufmann von Venedig (1922), Die Wienerstadt in Bild und Lied (1923) and Die trennende Brücke (1922). He died on 22 October 1925 in Brno, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Lajos Réthey was born on 12 September 1860 in Budapest, Austrian Empire [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Dracula's Death (1921), Die Csardasfürstin (1927) and A vörös Sámson (1917). He died on 17 May 1940 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Rudolph Lothar was born on 23 February 1865 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a writer, known for That Night in Rio (1941), The Face Behind the Scar (1937) and The Boudoir Diplomat (1930). He died on 2 October 1943 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Actor
- Writer
Josef Jarno was born on 24 August 1866 in Pest, Hungary [now Budapest, Hungary]. He was an actor and writer, known for Der lustige Witwer (1920), Die Jüdin von Toledo (1919) and Der fremde Gast (1914). He was married to Hansi Niese. He died on 11 January 1932 in Vienna, Austria.- Snitz Edwards was born Edward Neumann in Hungary. Married first wife in 1889 and was divorced some time later. Although he was almost 20 years older than his wife, Edwards married Eleanor Taylor, an actress from Boston, in 1906. They had three children, Cricket (b. 1906), Evelyn (b. 1914) and Marian (b. 1917). The three girls were all put into films; in the late 1920s, Universal made a series of two reelers with the entire family based upon a theatrical family with three daughters. Edwards was earning $5,000 a week by then. Cricket became a secretary for the Jaffe Agency and married famous L.A. attorney Newt Kendall. She later became a movie producer and worked on films like The Guns of Navarone (1961) and The Victors (1963). Marian became an actress and later married writer Irwin Shaw (Rich Man, Poor Man (1976)). Evelyn was a writer who worked for RKO for years. Edwards' final film was the 1931 classic The Public Enemy (1931) but, by then, he was very sick with cirrhosis of the liver and rheumatoid arthritis. He is in a number of early scenes as "Putty Nose", but was unable to finish filming. He spent his final years bedridden, passing away in 1937 at home.
- Writer
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Georg Jarno was born on 3 June 1868 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a writer and composer, known for Die Försterchristl (1952), Die Csikosbaroneß (1930) and The Bohemian Dancer (1926). He was married to Susanne Hirschbein. He died on 25 May 1920 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland].- Emil Stettner was born on 15 October 1868 in Budapest. He was an actor, known for Heinrich Heines erste Liebe (1922) and Don Juan (1922). He died on 24 January 1953 in Hamburg, Germany.
- Max Zilzer was born on 23 November 1868 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Woman in the Moon (1929), Ein Burschenlied aus Heidelberg (1930) and Carl und Carla (1915). He died on 12 May 1943 in Berlin, Germany.
- Actress
Irma Lányi was born on 10 September 1869 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She was an actress, known for Pókháló (1936), Mámi (1937) and Jehova (1918). She was married to József Ferenczy. She died on 11 January 1945 in Budapest, Hungary.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Between 1931-39 he taught at the School for Dramatic Arts. His pedagogic activity is significant. He engaged himself in literature. One of his books is the interesting: Ha Moliere naplót írt volna (Bp., 1946). He is the unparalleled artist of the conversation style. He was characterised by excellent ability to form characters and to make parodies. He is one of the great pioneers of the Hungarian filmmaking. During the teens he shot a series of short films as director for the Hunnia Biográf company, in a style strongly influenced by the stage. He appeared in two production made in Paris in Hungarian versions, (Az orvos titka, Kacagó asszony), which in fact mark the start of Hungarian sound picture- Kálmán Pesti was born on 21 December 1869 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He is known for Növérek (1912) and Ninon de Lenclos (1913).
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Ede Sas was born on 23 December 1869 in Pest, Hungary [now in Budapest, Hungary]. He was a writer, known for Méltóságos rab asszony (1916), Falusi madonna (1918) and A hazugság (1919). He died on 27 June 1928 in Budapest, Hungary.- György Klenovics was born on 9 March 1870 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He is known for Az ösasszony (1919).
- Géza Raskó was born on 3 October 1870 in Pest, Hungary [now in Budapest, Hungary]. He was an actor, known for A tizennegyedik (1920). He died on 18 February 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
- István Ráth-Végh was born on 23 November 1870 in Budapest, Hungary. István was a writer, known for Fekete krónika (2004) and Fekete krónika: A szép méregkeverö (2005). István died on 18 December 1959 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Writer
- Actor
- Music Department
He studied law, and became a journalist, but he was a poet and writer too. He was a theatre director (Vígszínház), and he was a director of Athenaeum print factory. In 1892 he published his first book of poems, the Modern dalok. He liked Budapest, the Hungarian capital, and many of his works take place there. He had done some translations too. He used first the "mozi" word, which is a short word for the cinema in Hungary. Many of his works have been adapted to film.- Lajos Gyõzõ was born on 22 September 1871 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor, known for A szabadkai dráma (1909), Benjámin karrierje (1912) and Az ingovány (1918). He died on 8 February 1945 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Károly Baumann was born on 29 October 1871 in Pest [now Budapest], Hungary. He was an actor, known for Tüzet kérek (1912), A pesti háziúr (1908) and Nem Hagy a Hadnagy (1908). He died on 22 October 1920 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Additional Crew
- Writer
- Actor
Jenö Faragó was born on 6 April 1872 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a writer and actor, known for Casanova (1919), Lili (1918) and Weisz Pista, a huszár (1913). He died on 28 March 1940 in Budapest, Hungary.- Gyula Toronyi was born on 10 September 1872 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Ágyú és harang (1915). He died on 27 July 1945 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Producer
- Director
- Actor
János Fröhlich was born on 2 April 1873 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. He was a producer and director, known for Árvák imája (1922), Pufi - Hogyan lett ünnepelt hös egy jámbor pesti férjböl? (1914) and A karthausi (1916). He died on 29 August 1926 in Budapest, Hungary.- Director
- Actor
- Producer
László Beöthy was born on 13 April 1873 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a director and actor, known for Sárga liliom (1914). He died on 7 May 1931 in Budapest, Hungary.- Emil Hunyadi was born on 3 September 1873 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He is known for Dódi karrierje (1915).
- Pongrác Kacsóh was born on 15 December 1873 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a composer, known for János vitéz (1916), Lavina (1921) and János vitéz (1924). He died on 18 December 1923 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Rózsi Forrai was born on 13 January 1874 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for A szerencse fia (1917). He was married to Jenö Törzs. He died on 20 June 1931 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Emil Szomory was born on 12 February 1874 in Budapest, Hungary. Emil was a writer, known for Böském (1914). Emil died in 1944 in Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland.
- Károly Lovik was born on 9 March 1874 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a writer, known for A leányvári boszorkány (1938) and Feje fölött holló (1974). He died on 19 April 1915 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
The great American escape artist and magician Houdini (immortalized by a memorable performance by Tony Curtis in the eponymous 1953 film) was born Erich Weiss on March 24, 1874 in Budapest, Hungary, though he often gave his birthplace as Appleton, Wisconsin, where he was raised. One of five brothers and one daughter born to rabbi Samuel Weiss and his wife Cecilia, the future Houdini was four years old when his parents emigrated to the U.S., where Weiss, as "Harry Houdini", became one of the major celebrities of the first age dominated by the mass media.
His boyhood was spent in poverty and, when he was 17, he conjured up a magic act with his friend Jack Hayman, in order to escape the poverty and anonymity of manual labor which would likely have been his lot in life. Young Erich had been fascinated with magic since he was a young lad, when he was in the audience of a magic show put on by a traveling magician named Dr. Lynch. Billing themselves as the "Houdini Bros." in tribute to French magician Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Erich Weiss became an entertainer, though it took him some seven years to catch on.
Weiss and Hayman specialized in the Crate Escape (eventually known as Metamorphosis or The Substitution Trunk), and Houdini's brother Theodore replaced Hayman when he became uninterested in the act. Eventually, Theodore -- billed as Hardeen -- was replaced by Wilhemina Rahner (known as Bess), the woman "Harry Houdini" would eventually marry. The marriage on June 22, 1894 caused a conflict with his Jewish family as Bess was a Roman Catholic. They married in secret, then again at a synagogue and in a Catholic church to please both of their families.
While developing his act, Houdini was not above the old carny trick of posing as a spirit medium, making the rounds of the town clerk's office and nearby cemeteries in order to provide "messages from beyond". In 1896, while visiting a doctor friend in Nova Scotia, he saw his first strait jacket, which gave him the idea of developing an act in which he would escape from it.
Houdini finally hit the big-time when he was 24 years old with his Challenge Act in 1898, while he was making the rounds of vaudeville. Houdini's Challenge Act consisted of him escaping from a pair of handcuffs produced by an audience member. Eventually, this evolved into escapes from strait jackets, boxes, crates, safes, and other instruments and devices (such as his Water Torture Cell), as well as from jail cells. Houdini was also adept at escaping from being "buried alive". Hand-cuffed and strait-jacketed, he could escape while being hung upside down from a crane, or while lowered from a bridge, or even make his escape from padlocked crates lowered into a river.
Houdini also became famous as a debunker of mediums and "experts" of the paranormal, but this was done in hope he could find an actual medium that could communicate with the dead so that he could communicate with his beloved mother Cecilia after she passed away. He became quite famous in the ragtime age of the first quarter of the last century, even appearing in motion pictures produced by his own company.
Harry Houdini, the greatest magician ever produced by America, died in Detroit, Michigan during a national tour. The cause of death officially was peritonitis from a ruptured appendix. His death came nine days after having been punched in the stomach during the Canadian leg of the tour by J. Gordon Whitehead, a McGill University student who was testing Houdini's famed ability to take body blows. Always the trouper, Houdini had soldiered on despite stomach pains. (Early during the tour, he had broken an ankle but did not let it stop him or the tour.) His wife Bess, to whom Houdini left his half-million dollar estate, collected a double indemnity on his life insurance policy, as the blow was considered to have shortened the great magician's life and contributed to his premature death at the age of 52.
The date of his death was October 31, 1926 -- Halloween, one of three days (October 31-November 2) of Samhain, the Celtic New Year, when the veil between the living and the dead allegedly is at its thinnest and the living can make contact with the dead. Annually on Halloween from 1927 to 1937, Bess held a séance to try to contact her departed husband. She did not succeed, though she helped keep the memory of her husband alive in the American consciousness. Even today, magicians worldwide conduct séances on Halloween in an effort to contact the late escapologist.- Aladár Sarkadi was born on 26 March 1874 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for A Papagály (1913), Drótostót (1918) and Die Csardasfürstin (1927). He was married to Werber Olga. He died on 15 December 1949 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Ilona Hegedüsné Berzétey was born on 3 May 1874 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She was an actress, known for A víg özvegy (1912), A Munkászubbony (1915) and A táncz (1901). She was married to Gyula Hegedüs. She died on 17 December 1962 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Ilona Náday was born on 4 August 1874 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She is known for A papucshös (1938), Temporarily Broke (1938) and Az ember néha téved (1938).
- Adolf Fodor was born on 8 November 1874 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a producer, known for Dunaparti randevú (1936), The Little Pastry Shop (1935) and I Married for Love (1937). He died on 26 January 1942 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Tamás Moly was born on 27 January 1875 in Budapest, Hungary. Tamás was a writer, known for Vörösbegy (1921) and Csak növel ne! (1924). Tamás died on 16 March 1957 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Betty Laky was born on 16 March 1875 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She was an actress, known for Halcyone (1919). She died on 22 September 1948 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Margit Mészáros was born on 4 April 1875 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She was an actress, known for Érdekházasság (1921). She died on 22 April 1923 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Frigyes Tanay was born on 18 August 1875 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Aladár a tüzoltónapon (1912), Egy csók története (1912) and A víg özvegy (1912). He was married to Margit T. Halmi. He died on 4 April 1925 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Cecile Tormay was born on 8 October 1875 in Budapest, Hungary. She was a writer, known for A hegyek lánya (1942). She died on 2 April 1937 in Mátraháza, Hungary.
- Oscar Beregi Sr. was born on 24 January 1876 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), Camille (1926) and Kísértetek vonata (1933). He was married to Piroska Lázár and Amália Adler. He died on 18 October 1965 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Margit Koppány was born on 30 June 1876 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. She is known for A hercegnö pongyolája (1914).
- Andreas Latzko was born on 1 September 1876 in Budapest, Hungary. Andreas was a writer, known for Shoestring Theatre (1959). Andreas died on 11 September 1943 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- Árpád Ódry was born on 25 September 1876 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Méltóságos rab asszony (1916), A Kétszívü férfi (1918) and Christoph Columbus (1923). He died on 5 April 1937 in Budapest, Hungary.
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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
Béla Bátori was born on 12 November 1876 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor and assistant director, known for A 111-es (1920), Mária növér (1929) and Se ki, se be (1919). He died on 1 August 1934 in Budapest, Hungary.- Károly Ferenczy was born on 28 November 1876 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for A Kormánybiztos (1919), The Eternal Secret (1938) and Maga talán beteg (1908). He died in 1945 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Eduard Rothauser was born on 8 December 1876 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor and director, known for Er selbst sein Gott (1920), Die Eidechse (1919) and Menschen untereinander (1926). He died on 24 January 1956 in Barcelona, Spain.- Margit T. Halmi was born on 18 December 1876 in Budapest, Hungary. She was an actress, known for A skorpió I. (1918), A föld embere (1917) and A kuruzsló (1917). She was married to Frigyes Tanay. She died on 3 December 1936 in Budapest, Hungary.