Géza from Bolváry
Géza Maria von Bolváry-Zahn , (born December 26, 1897 in Budapest , † August 11, 1961 in Munich ) was a Hungarian actor , screenwriter and director . He directed films such as Das Lied ist aus (1930), Der dunkle Tag (1943), Schwarze Augen (1951), and Das Gabe's Only Once (1958).
biography
The son of a factory owner and landowner attended the royal Ludovika Military Academy in Budapest after high school and then served in the Hungarian Landwehr (Honvéd Hussars). After the First World War he resigned from military service as a cavalry officer . He then earned his living in the newly formed Hungarian film industry. He began his career around 1920 as an actor in various silent films , but soon switched to Star-Film , where he made his debut as a director and dramaturge. In 1922, the Emelka film company in Munich hired him as a director for four years. From 1921 or 1923 he was married to the actress Helene Mattyasovszky , who died in 1943.
Between 1926 and 1928 he worked for the Fellner & Somlo film company in Berlin and then went to London for a year at British International Pictures . In 1929 he had his first major success with Two Hearts in 3/4 Time , a story about a waltz that brings a composer and a girl together. With this film he founded the genre of the Viennese sound film operetta. In the following years, Bolváry worked repeatedly with the actor Willi Forst , the composer Robert Stolz and the screenwriter Walter Reisch .
Back in Berlin, he worked for Superfilm Berlin until 1933 and then for Boston Films , also in Berlin, until 1935 . From 1936 Bolváry worked for several production companies in Vienna , u. a. for Styria-Film, Terra Film and Wienfilm . After the Second World War , Bolváry went to Rome , where he again directed several films for Cinopera until 1949 . An Austrian citizen since 1948, he settled in Munich in 1950 and became head of production at Starfilm four years later .
Between 1920 and 1958 he directed around 100 films and occasionally wrote film scripts. Many later stars such as Zarah Leander , Hilde Krahl , Ilse Werner and Marte Harell had their first film appearance under his direction. His last films were made in 1958. In 1959 he took over his first theater direction and successfully staged the operetta Gräfin Mariza at the Vienna Volksoper .
Géza von Bolváry, who married a second time in 1948, died at the age of 63 on August 10, 1961 in Altenbeuern near Rosenheim, where he was buried in the community cemetery.
Filmography
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literature
- Corinna Müller, Danielle Krüger: Geza von Bolvary - Director , in CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Films, Volume 3 (1985)
Web links
- Géza von Bolváry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Géza von Bolváry at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to the Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch. Theater history year and address book. Vol. 71, 1963, ISSN 0070-4431 , p. 75, in other sources August 10 is also mentioned as the date of death and Altenbeuern near Rosenheim as the place of death.
- ↑ v. Bolvary, Helene . In: Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 24.
- ^ Géza von Bolváry at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bolváry, Géza from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bolváry tooth, Géza Maria von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian actor, screenwriter and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1961 |
| Place of death | Munich |