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Filmmaker · Hungary

Géza von Bolváry

Died in 1961

Géza von Bolváry was born in Budapest on 26 December 1897, the son of an industrialist and landowner. Trained at the Ludovika Military Academy, he served in the hussars and left the army after the war with the rank of cavalry captain. A film actor around 1920, he moved into directing at Star-Film, and then the Emelka company hired him in Munich in 1922. He directed a hundred or so films until 1958, mostly operettas and musical comedies, and launched the genre of the filmed Viennese operetta. He died on 10 August 1961 in Altenbeuern, near Rosenheim.

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