Gyula Szöreghy

His last movie - which had been partly filmed in Budapest - he shot at the location of his greatest successes - in Germany - with "Karneval der Liebe" (1943).

When the National Socialists seized the power in Germany he returned to Budapest in 1934.

The transition to the sound film was no problem for him and he continued his career in Germany seamlessly during the early 1930s.

Von Szöreghy also participated in the German-British romance Der fesche Husar/The Gallant Hussar (Géza von Bolváry, 1928) starring Ivor Novello. The film was a co-production made under an agreement between Gainsborough Pictures and the German studio Felsom-Film and was shot in Berlin.

Von Szöreghy was also among the gigantic cast of the silent epic Sodom und Gomorrha/Sodom and Gomorrah (Mihály Kertész a.k.a. Michael Curtiz, 1922), the largest and most expensive production in Austrian film history. In the creation of the film between 3,000 and 14,000 performers, extras and crew were employed.

He was an actor and director, known for The Golem's Last Adventure (1921), Ifjabb Fromont és idösebb Risler (1919) and Der Onkel aus Sumatra (1930). He was married to René Sellõ.

During the second half of the 1920s, he became one of the busiest supporting actors in the German-Austrian silent cinema. The burly Szöreghy embodied usually comic characters, including strange relatives, servants, petty bourgeois and officials.

He also played Sikes in Twist Olivér/Oliver Twist (Márton Garas, 1919), a Hungarian adaptation of the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

He debuted as an actor in 1902 and played at various theaters, for example, in Temesvár and Budapest.

Gyula Szöreghy was born on November 30, 1887 in Budapest, Hungary.