Personal Info
Birth date
1891-03-30 (134 Years)
Day of death
1976-06-06
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Kisvárda, Austria-Hungary
Also known as
Mihály Várkonyi
Viktor Varkonyi
Victor Varkonyi
Michael Varkonyi
Michal Victor Varconyi
Michael Varconyi
Michael Varconi
Várkonyi Mihály
Виктор Варкони
Victor Varconi
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Victor Varconi (born Mihály Várkonyi, 31 March 1891 – 6 June 1976) was a highly successful silent film actor in Hungary. Born in Kisvárda, Austria-Hungary, Varconi was the first Hungarian actor to make a film in the United States. His normal speaking accent sounded almost exactly like that of Transylvanian Bela Lugosi. He worked under contract to Cecil B. DeMille, and played Pontius Pilate in DeMille's 1927 production of The King of Kings. Because of his accent, Varconi's popularity waned with the advent of sound films and he was cast in smaller parts, often playing Hispanic characters. He worked on the New York City stage and wrote for radio. He died from a heart attack in Santa Barbara, California on 6 June 1976 at the age of 85. He was interred at the Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles, California, US.
Filmography
Studio One
5
Overview:
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
Overview:
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.Samson and Delilah
6.511
Overview:
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.For Whom the Bell Tolls
6.539
Overview:
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.The King of Kings
6.5
Overview:
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.The Sea Hawk
7.093
Overview:
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.Unconquered
6.2
Overview:
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.Reap the Wild Wind
6.391
Overview:
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
6.9
Overview:
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.The Plainsman
6.3
Overview:
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.Dancing Pirate
5.438
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Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.Roberta
7
Overview:
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. There they meet the singer Scharwenka (alias Huck's old friend Lizzie), who gets the band a job. Meanwhile, Madame Roberta passes away and leaves the business to John and he goes into partnership with Stephanie.Strange Cargo
7
Overview:
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.The Atomic Submarine
5.3
Overview:
Ships disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a special submarine is sent to investigate.The Hitler Gang
6
Overview:
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time politico to dictator of Germany.The Black Camel
6
Overview:
Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tarneverro first. Enter inspector Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police, investigating the unsolved murder, three years earlier, of a Hollywood actor.Suez
5.2
Overview:
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.Safe in Hell
6.8
Overview:
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of the earth, Gilda will soon find out that she has found refuge in hell.My Favorite Blonde
6.4
Overview:
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.Eternal Love
5.542
Overview:
In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
5.7
Overview:
A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines.Big City
7.4
Overview:
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.Submarine Patrol
6.6
Overview:
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.Where There's Life
5.6
Overview:
In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.Chicago
5.7
Overview:
Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted. The basis for Kander/Ebb's 1975 Broadway musical of the same name and its Oscar-winning 2002 film adaptation.The Man Who Turned to Stone
4.5
Overview:
A new social worker at a girls' reformatory discovers that her charges are being used by a group of ancient alchemists, who have insinuated themselves as the prison's chief staffers, to keep themselves alive and free from an insidious petrification, which is already afflicting one of their number.A Feather in Her Hat
6.8
Overview:
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.Changing Husbands
NYR
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A bored rich housewife wants to go on the stage, but her husband won't let her. When she meets a despairing actress who looks exactly like her, she suggests they swap places for a little while, giving the actress a break while the rich husband is out of town. But the rich husband comes back early, causing havoc for the actress, plus the rich housewife is finding herself attracted to the actress's boyfriend.Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
6.6
Overview:
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.Acting
1959The Atomic Submarine as Clifford Kent
1957The Man Who Turned to Stone as Dr. Myer
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 Episode) as Count d'Auberge
1949Samson and Delilah as Lord of Ashdod
1948Studio One (1 Episode) as Unknown
1947Pirates of Monterey as Capt. Cordova
1947Where There's Life as Finance Minister Zavitch
1947Unconquered as Captain Simeon Ecuyer
1945Scotland Yard Investigator as Jules
1944The Hitler Gang as Rudolph Hess
1943For Whom the Bell Tolls as Primitivo
1943Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines as Enemy Security Officer
1942They Raid by Night as Col. Otto von Ritter
1942My Favorite Blonde as Miller
1942Reap the Wild Wind as Lubbock
1941Forced Landing as Hendrick Van Deuren
1941Federal Fugitives as Otto Lieberman
1940The Sea Hawk as Gen. Aguirre
1940Strange Cargo as Fisherman
1940Pound Foolish as Victor Lestrade
1939Everything Happens at Night as Cavas
1939Disputed Passage as Dr. LaFerriere
1939Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation as Paul Borodoff
1939The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle as Grand Duke
1938Submarine Patrol as Italian Naval Chaplain Vanzano
1938Suez as Victor Hugo
1938King of the Newsboys as Wire Arno
1937Big City as Paul Roya
1937Men in Exile as Gomez
1937Trouble in Morocco as Kamaroff
1936The Plainsman as Painted Horse
1936Dancing Pirate as Don Balthazar (Monterey Captain of the Guards)
1935A Feather in Her Hat as Paul Anders
1935Mister Dynamite as Jarl Dvorjak
1935Roberta as Ladislaw
1934When London Sleeps as Stephen Ronsart
1933The Song You Gave Me as Karl Linden
1932The Rebel as Unknown
1932The Doomed Battalion as Artur Franchini
1931Safe in Hell as General Emmanuel Jesus Maria Gomez
1931Men in Her Life as Count Ivan Karloff
1931The Black Camel as Robert Fyfe
1931Doctors' Wives as Dr. Kane Ruyter
1930Captain Thunder as El Captain Thunder
1930The Warsaw Citadel as Unknown
1930Mein Herz gehört Dir... as Unknown
1930The Cult of the Body as Czeslaw
1929Eternal Love as Lorenz Gruber
1928The Divine Lady as Horatio Nelson
1928Sinners' Parade as Al Morton
1928Tenth Avenue as Bob Peters
1927Chicago as Amos Hart
1927The Forbidden Woman as Col. Gautier
1927The Angel of Broadway as Jerry Wilson
1927The King of Kings as Pontius Pilate - Governor of Judea
1927The Little Adventuress as George La Fuente
1927Fighting Love as Gabriel Amari
1926The Volga Boatman as Prince Dimitri
1926Silken Shackles as Unknown
1926The Last Days of Pompeii as Glauco
1925Her Dancing Partner as Unknown
1925L'uomo più allegro di Vienna as Unknown
1924Feet of Clay as Bookkeeper
1924Changing Husbands as Oliver Evans
1924Triumph as William Silver
1923Avalanche as George Vandeau
1923Young Medardus as Medardus Klähr
1922Sodom and Gomorrah as Priester des Lyzeums - Engel des Herrn
1922Herren der Meere as Unknown
1922Das Blut as Unknown
1920Arme Violetta as Unknown
1918A skorpió as Unknown
1918Hotel Imperial as Unknown
1917A tanítónö as Unknown
1917A csikós as Andris, a csikóslegény
1917The Wolf as Unknown
1917Mágnás Miska as Baracs (as Várkonyi Mihály)
1916Havasi Magdolna as Unknown
1915Bánk bán as Unknown
1915The Undesirable as Miklós
1914The Yellow Foal as Unknown