Zoltán Várkonyi
Zoltán Várkonyi (13 May 1912 – 10 April 1979) was a Hungarian actor and film director. In 1961, he was a member of the jury at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival. Four years later, he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.
Also recorded as Zoltan Varkonyi
Zoltán Várkonyi
Fortepan / Szalay Zoltán · FOTO:FORTEPAN / Zoltán Szalay · FOTO:Fortepan — ID 146818: Adományozó/Donor: Szalay Zoltán. · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Born
- 1912 · Budapest.
- Died
- 1979 · Budapest.
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Occupation
- screenwriter · actor · theatre manager · director · pedagogue
- Fields
- acting · film · theatre · directing
- Education
- University of Theatre and Film Arts · New York Film Academy
- Honours
- Kossuth Prize · Meritorius Artist of Hungary · Great Artist of Hungary Award
- Languages
- Hungarian
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Zoltán Várkonyi. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q219075 · wikipedia · Zoltán Várkonyi
In this article
Director
Director
Zoltán Várkonyi studied at University of Theatre and Film Arts and New York Film Academy. The recorded working language is Hungarian. The field of work recorded is acting, film and theatre. Positions recorded include rector. Distinctions recorded are Kossuth Prize, Meritorius Artist of Hungary and Great Artist of Hungary Award.
West Zone (1952) A Strange Mask of Identity (1955) Pillar of Salt (1958) Crime at Dawn (1960) Foto Háber (1963) Kárpáthy Zoltán (1966) Stars of Eger (1968) Szemtől szembe (1970)
Actor
Actor
The Dream Car (1934) My Daughter Is Different (1937) The Mysterious Stranger (1937) Black Diamonds (1938) Rosemary (1938) Stars of Variety (1939) The Perfect Man (1939) Princess of the Puszta (1939) The Unquiet Night (1940) Gül Baba (1940) The Schoolmistress (1945) West Zone (1952) Erkel (1952) Don Juan's Last Adventure (1958) Iron Flower (1958) Story of My Foolishness (1966) Kárpáthy Zoltán (1966)
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1979
Zoltán Várkonyi died at Budapest.
Screenwriter
Hot Fields (1949)
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Zoltán Várkonyi, revision 1357330008 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.2nd Moscow International Film Festival (1961). MIFF.
- 2.4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965). MIFF.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Cunningham, John. Hungarian Cinema: From Coffee House to Multiplex. Wallflower Press, 2004.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Film memorabilia
38,174 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Zoltán HuszárikPerson
- Zoltan KordaPerson
- Zoltán MucsiPerson
- Zoltán Szilágyi VargaPerson
- Zora KerovaPerson
- Zora Neale HurstonPerson
- Zoran ĐorđevićPerson
- Zoran RankićPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Zoltán Várkonyi?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.