André De Toth

Gender: Male
Born: 15th May 1912
Died: 27th October 2002
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: Carson City, Crime Wave, Dark Waters, Day of the Outlaw, Guest in the House, Hidden Fear, House of Wax, Last of the Comanches, Man in the Saddle, Man on a String, Monkey on My Back, Morgan, the Pirate, None Shall Escape, Passport to Suez, Pitfall, Play Dirty, Ramrod, Riding Shotgun, Slattery's Hurricane, Springfield Rifle, Tanganyika, Terror Night, The Bounty Hunter, The Indian Fighter, The Other Love, The Stranger Wore a Gun, The Two-Headed Spy, Thunder Over the Plains

André de Toth (May 15, circa 1912 – October 27, 2002) was a Hungarian-American filmmaker, born and raised in Makó, Csongrád, Kingdom of Hungary Austro-Hungarian Empire. 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.

Born ca. 1912 as Sâsvári Farkasfalvi Tóthfalusi Tóth Endre Antal Mihály, he earned a degree in law from the Royal Hungarian University in the early 1930s. He garnered acclaim for plays written as a college student, acquiring the mentorship of Ferenc Molnár and becoming part of 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 England, spent several years as an assistant to fellow Hungarian émigré Alexander Korda, and eventually moved to the Los Angeles in 1942.

Based on his Hungarian films, the production work for Korda and writing he had done on

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