Oskar Beregi
Oszkár Beregi , also Oscar Beregi Sr. , (born January 24, 1876 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died October 18, 1965 in Hollywood ) was a Hungarian theater and film actor. As a movie actor, he worked primarily in the 1920s and 1930s in Hungary , Austria , Germany and the United States .
Life
Oskar Beregi has been on stage since the early 1890s and has worked at the Budapest National Theater , where he played Romeo in Romeo and Juliet , for example . At times he appeared under the direction of Max Reinhardt in Berlin, also here very often in plays by William Shakespeare . He began his film career in Austria-Hungary in 1916 with a leading role in the film Mire megvénülünk . More silent films followed in Hungary until, like numerous other Hungarian filmmakers, he and his family moved to Austria in 1919 while fleeing the communist Béla Kun regime. There he worked on the monumental film The Slave Queen (1924).
In 1925, Beregi was the victim of anti-Semitic rallies in Budapest. From 1926 he appeared in several films in the United States, including The Love Thief , The Flaming Forest and Butterflies in the Rain .
With the invention and spread of the sound film (from 1927) his field of activity was limited due to his linguistic abilities, and he again acted more and more in Hungarian films, but also played what is now probably his most famous film role in Germany: as Professor Baum obsessed with criminal plans in Fritz -long -Klassiker the Testament of Dr. Mabuse from 1933.
During the Third Reich he stayed in Budapest, where, due to anti-Semitic laws in Hungary, from 1939 he was only allowed to appear as a theater actor with Omike , and there he barely escaped the Holocaust organized by the Eichmann Command . He then emigrated to the United States, where he appeared in a supporting role in the Oscar- winning film Madame Makes History (s) in 1953 . He last stood in the role of a waiter in front of the camera in 1961 for the US television series Peter Loves Mary .
Oskar Beregi died in Hollywood in 1965 at the age of 89. The actor was married twice and had two children. He was the father of Oscar Beregi junior , who also worked as a film and series actor in the USA.
Filmography (selection)
- 1916: Mire megvénülünk
- 1917: A gólyakalifa
- 1919: The red crescent moon (Az aranyember)
- 1919: Jön az öcsém
- 1919: Ave Caesar!
- 1922: William Ratcliff
- 1924: Ssanin
- 1924: Jiskor
- 1924: The slave queen
- 1924: The Forbidden Land
- 1925: the curse
- 1926: Butterflies in the Rain
- 1926: The Flaming Forest
- 1926: The Love Thief
- 1927: The Woman on Trial
- 1928: Other women
- 1928: love in May
- 1929: The thief in the sleeping coupée
- 1931: A Kék bálvány
- 1933: Rákóczi induló
- 1933: Iza néni
- 1933: Yiskor
- 1933: The will of Dr. Mabuse
- 1933: Kísértetek vonata
- 1953: Madame makes history (s) ( Call Me Madam )
- 1953: The Legionnaire of the Sahara ( Desert Legion )
- 1961: Peter Loves Mary (TV series, 1 episode)
literature
- Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 93.
Web links
- Oscar Beregi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Armin A. Wallas (Ed.): Eugen Hoeflich . Diaries 1915 to 1927 . Vienna: Böhlau, 1999 ISBN 3-205-99137-0 , p. 392
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beregi, Oskar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beregi, Oszkár; Beregi senior, Oscar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian actor of the silent movie era |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1965 |
| Place of death | Hollywood , California |