André de Toth (born as Sasvári Farkasfalvi Tóthfalusi Tóth Endre Antal Mihály on May 15, 1912 - died October 27, 2002) was an Academy Award-nominated Hungarian- American filmmaker, born and raised in Makó, Csongrád, Austria-Hungary. He directed the 3-D film House of Wax, despite being unable to see in 3-D himself, having lost an eye at an early age. He is known for his gritty B movies in the western and crime genres.
After earning a law degree fr...
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André de Toth (born as Sasvári Farkasfalvi Tóthfalusi Tóth Endre Antal Mihály on May 15, 1912 - died October 27, 2002) was an Academy Award-nominated Hungarian- American filmmaker, born and raised in Makó, Csongrád, Austria-Hungary. He directed the 3-D film House of Wax, despite being unable to see in 3-D himself, having lost an eye at an early age. He is known for his gritty B movies in the western and crime genres.
After earning a law degree from the Royal Hungarian University in the early 1930s, de Toth, who had won acclaim for plays written while still a college student, acquired mentorship from celebrated playwright Ferenc Molnár and entered the theater scene in Budapest. From that involvement he segued to the film industry and worked as a writer, assistant director, editor and sometime actor.
In 1939 he directed five films just before war began in Europe. Several of these pictures received significant release in the Hungarian communities in the United States. De Toth went to...
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