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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.
Victor Varconi Biography / Wiki
| Name | Victor Varconi |
| Also Know | Mihály Várkonyi, Viktor Varkonyi, Victor Varkonyi, Michael Varkonyi, Michal Victor Varconyi, Michael Varconyi, Michael Varconi, Várkonyi Mihály, Виктор Варкони |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Kisvárda, Austria-Hungary |
| Date of Birth | 1891-03-31 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 85 |
| Deathday | 1976-06-06 |
Victor Varconi Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Last Days of Pompeii | Glauco | 1926-03-09 | Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi’s The Last Days of Pompeii 1926 stages in sumptuous colour tinting the epic fall of the ancient city buried by Mo… |
| The Cult of the Body | Czeslaw | 1930-01-18 | A sculptor is desperately looking for a model for his latest work entitled New Venus. One day he meets girl who seems like perfect candidate. Soon, th… |
| Mágnás Miska | Baracs (as Várkonyi Mihály) | 1917-01-01 | Based on a popular stage musical comedy by Károly Bakonyi and Andor Gábor, the film tells the story of a young engineer who tries to construct a rai… |
| Sinners’ Parade | Al Morton | 1928-09-14 | … |
| Die Warschauer Zitadelle | 1930-05-29 | … | |
| Herren der Meere | 1922-02-03 | … | |
| When London Sleeps | Stephen Ronsart | 1934-12-01 | England is rocked by a series of train disasters. Police are on the hunt for the perpetrator, who is always spotted leaving the scene with a scarf aro… |
| A skorpió | 1918-11-18 | … | |
| Hotel Imperial | 1918-11-12 | … | |
| Changing Husbands | Oliver Evans | 1924-06-22 | 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 su… |
| The Divine Lady | Horatio Nelson | 1929-03-31 | Lady Hamilton’s love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire…. |
| Chicago | Amos Hart | 1927-12-23 | 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 Undesirable | Miklós | 1915-03-20 | A young woman living in the country is told by her dying father that he is really her uncle and raised her as his own when her mother was sent to pris… |
| The Song You Gave Me | Karl Linden | 1933-01-01 | Set in Vienna, this lively musical comedy stars Bebe Daniels as an actress who falls in love with her secretary, but has difficulty in persuading him … |
| The Forbidden Woman | Col. Gautier | 1927-10-28 | A colonel of the French army in North Africa believes his brother, a sensitive musician, to be in love with the colonel’s wife and so arranges for his… |
| Tenth Avenue | Bob Peters | 1928-08-06 | Joe, a weakling gangster, and Bob, an ex-gambler, compete for Lyla Mason, a working girl who also runs a 10th Avenue rooming house in New York city. B… |
| Captain Thunder | El Captain Thunder | 1930-12-27 | A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.’ Captain Thunder contains some of the darndes… |
| The Little Adventuress | George La Fuente | 1927-04-11 | When Victoria’s husband Leonard leaves her for Helen , Victoria takes up with artist Antonio. However both couples end up on George La Fuente’s dud… |
| The Angel of Broadway | Jerry Wilson | 1927-10-02 | Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her customers, conceives of burlesquing a Salvation Army gi… |
| Sodom and Gomorrah | Priester des Lyzeums – Engel des Herrn | 1922-10-13 | Exposed to bad influences since childhood, Mary, a young girl is pushed by her mother to approach an elderly banker by the name of Harber. After almos… |
| Arme Violetta | 1920-12-25 | A modern adaptation of Dumas’ Camille…. | |
| Fighting Love | 1927-02-14 | … | |
| L’uomo più allegro di Vienna | 1925-04-01 | … | |
| The Yellow Foal | 1914-01-12 | … | |
| Mister Dynamite | Jarl Dvorjak | 1935-04-22 | A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino…. |
| Eternal Love | Lorenz Gruber | 1929-05-11 | In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another…. |
| Men In Exile | Gomez | 1937-04-04 | An ex-con takes flight after he’s framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder…. |
| Federal Fugitives | Otto Lieberman | 1941-03-29 | A government agent goes undercover in order to apprehend a saboteur who caused a plane crash…. |
| Men in Her Life | Count Ivan Karloff | 1931-12-10 | A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she’s… |
| Doctors’ Wives | Dr. Kane Ruyter | 1931-03-14 | The trials of being a doctor’s wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin w… |
| Avalanche | George Vandeau | 1923-10-16 | At the urging of his dying aunt, a young man of limited means forgoes marriage into comfortable society. He becomes husband to an unwed mother and fat… |
| They Raid by Night | Col. Otto von Ritter | 1942-06-19 | The British Commandos send Bob Owen (Lyle Talbot) to Norway to prepare for a raid. His mission also includes freeing General Heden (Paul Baratoff) who… |
| Triumph | William Silver | 1924-04-27 | At the center of the story is Ann Land. Ann is a small factory worker and has only ever dreamed of great fame, recognition as an artist and applause …. |
| Her Dancing Partner | 1925-11-06 | … | |
| The Wolf | 1917-01-01 | … | |
| The Volga Boatman | Prince Dimitri | 1926-05-23 | During the Russian Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor…. |
| King of the Newsboys | Wire Arno | 1938-03-18 | A poor young man’s girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn’t have. Determined to show her … |
| The Hitler Gang | Rudolph Hess | 1944-04-26 | This movie shows us the rise of Adolf Hitler from a small radical political adventurer to the dictator of Germany in the way of a gangster film. Exept… |
| Pound Foolish | Victor Lestrade | 1940-01-27 | An expose of attempts by wealthy people to avoid payment of customs duties. Part of the MGM “Crime Does Not Pay” series…. |
| The Rebel | 1932-12-22 | A young medical student returns to his Tyrolean home to find out that Napoleon’s troops have taken over the area and that his mother and sister have b… | |
| Doomed Battalion | Artur Franchini | 1932-06-16 | During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army…. |
| Silken Shackles | 1926-05-13 | The wife of an American diplomat falls in love with a young Hungarian violinist…. | |
| The Black Camel | Robert Fyfe | 1931-06-21 | Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won’t marry him without consulting famed psychic Tanaverro… |
| Dancing Pirate | Don Balthazar (Monterey Captain of the Guards) | 1936-05-22 | 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 f… |
| Das Blut | 1922-02-02 | … | |
| Bánk bán | 1915-04-19 | … | |
| Big City | Paul Roya | 1937-09-03 | 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 contr… |
| Safe in Hell | General Gómez | 1931-12-12 | 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 … |
| Disputed Passage | Dr. LaFerriere | 1939-10-25 | A doctor’s medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs int… |
| Roberta | Ladislaw | 1935-03-07 | 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 … |
| The Atomic Submarine | Clifford Kent | 1959-11-29 | Ships disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a special submarine is sent to investigate…. |
| My Favorite Blonde | Miller | 1942-04-02 | Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded… |
| A Feather in Her Hat | Paul Anders | 1935-10-25 | 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… |
| Feet of Clay | Bookkeeper | 1924-09-27 | Kerry Harlan (La Rocque) is unable to work because he was injured in a battle with a shark, so his youthful wife Amy (Reynolds) becomes a fashion mode… |
| Forced Landing | Hendrick Van Deuren | 1941-07-11 | On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military officer intent on sabotaging a local fort…. |
| The Man Who Turned to Stone | Dr. Myer | 1957-03-01 | 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… |
| Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation | Paul Borodoff | 1939-07-07 | All work and no play makes Mr. Moto a busy detective! Mr. Moto heads to Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown … |
| The Plainsman | Painted Horse | 1936-11-16 | Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner…. |
| Scotland Yard Investigator | Jules | 1945-09-30 | A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it’s a fake…. |
| Trouble in Morocco | Kamaroff | 1937-03-09 | A newspaperman Paul Cluett (Jack Holt) gets rival reporter Linda Lawrence (Mae Clark) to admit that she is investigating a story in Morocco that guns … |
| Where There’s Life | Finance Minister Zavitch | 1947-11-21 | 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… |
| Everything Happens at Night | Cavas | 1939-12-22 | Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter…. |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Primitivo | 1943-07-12 | 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… |
| Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines | Enemy Security Officer | 1943-01-01 | A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines…. |
| Unconquered | Captain Simeon Ecuyer | 1947-10-10 | 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 slav… |
| The King of Kings | Pontius Pilate – Governor of Judea | 1927-04-19 | 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 Hollywoo… |
| Pirates of Monterey | Capt. Cordova | 1947-12-01 | A woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part … |
| Strange Cargo | Fisherman | 1940-03-01 | Convicts escaping from Devil’s Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure…. |
| Young Medardus | Medardus Klähr | 1923-10-05 | Patriotic Austrian costume drama, about the martyr Medardus who opposed Napoleon’s occupation of Vienna in 1809. The plot proceeds in a series of conf… |
| The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle | Grand Duke | 1939-03-29 | 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… |
| Suez | Victor Hugo | 1938-10-28 | 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…. |
| Samson and Delilah | Lord of Ashdod | 1949-12-21 | When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regr… |
| Submarine Patrol | Italian Naval Chaplain Vanzano | 1938-11-25 | A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew…. |
| Reap the Wild Wind | Lubbock | 1942-03-26 | The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Lo… |
| The Sea Hawk | Gen. Aguirre | 1940-08-10 | Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures…. |
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