Cast & creator
Klári Tolnay
Best known for Hungarian Folktales, Fleeing Man, A bunker
Klári Tolnay (17 July 1914 – 27 October 1998) was a Hungarian actress. Klári Tolnay (born Rózsi Tolnay) was born on 17 July 1914 in Budapest, as the daughter of István Tolnay and Eleonóra Siess. She spent her childhood in the small village of Mohora, Nógrád county, on the estate of her father. Finishing elementary school there, she continued secondary school studies in Balassagyarmat, two years at the school operated by Institutum Beatae Mariae Virginis in Nyíregyháza, finishing high school in Debrecen's School of Business. Singing and playing music since childhood, she followed the advice of newspaper editor János Bókay, and auditioned herself to prominent actors of the time, Gábor Rajnai, Jenő Heltai, and Sándor Hevesi. After these early attempts were not followed by desired results, she was mentored by Béla Gaál, thus starting her career as a film actress at the Hunnia Film Studio. Her first notable role was in Meseautó, after which she was hired by the Vígszínház theatre in 1934, to perform smaller roles. In 1936 she married Ákos Ráthonyi, a director, giving birth to daughter Zsuzsanna 4 years later. After World War II ended in 1945, Ákos Ráthonyi left Hungary, with their daughter following after the 1956 revolution. Leaving the Vígszínház for the Művész Theatre in 1946-7, she met Iván Darvas, whom she later married (but divorced in 1958). In 1947, together with Gyula Benkő and István Somló, she was appointed as the co-manager of the Vígszínház theatre, where she was a major participant in restoring the institution to its pre-war glory. After the theatre was disbanded by the government in 1950, she joined the Madách Theatre, where she worked until her death on 27 October 1998. Description above from the Wikipedia article Klári Tolnay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Klári Tolnai, Tolnay Klári, Tolnay Rózsi, Rózsi Tolnay, Rozália Tolnay
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1934–2022 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (76)
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Hungarian Folktales
Mesemondó
1977Fleeing Man
Klára / Marianne
1943
A bunker
Martinné
1977
Drága kisfiam!
Margit, anya
1978
The Dream Car
Sári
1934
The Aga's Testament
Babocsainé
1967
Lady Over the Abyss
Jánossy Éva
1943
Silent Monastery
1941
Katyi
Varga Kató / Katyi
1942
Gentry Nest
Kovács Zsuzsi
1942
Late Season
Szilágyiné
1967
The Golden Kite
Anya
1966Time to Mature
Nagymama
1976
For Whom the Larks Sing
1959
The Land of Angels
Miklós' mother
1962
Alpine Sunlight
Fifi, a vezérigazgató lánya
1941
A Rose Garden of Six Acres
Ilka néni
1970
The Song of Rákóczi
Krisztinka Oltay / Fruzsa néni / Cinka Panna
1943Féltékenység
Eszter
1943
Three Bells
1941
Dani
Aranka
1957
Mrs. Déry
Déryné
1951
Hasty Marriage
Anna - özvegy Komáromi Gézáné
1968
Férfihűség
1942
Love Is Not a Shame
Suzanne,francia nevelõnõ
1940
The Music's the Thing
Zsazsa néni
1979
Szerencsés flótás
1943
The Siege of Beszterce
Apolka
1948
Relatives
1954
Tale on the 12 Points
Bartháné, patikus
1957
Adáshiba
1979
There Was Once a Family
Bujták grófnõ
1972The Widow and the Police Officer
1967
Keresztúton
1942
Willy the Sparrow
Verbéna, a tündér (voice)
1989
Dreams of Love
Kozima, Liszt leánya
1970
Virrad
Elza, Szabó's wife
1960
My Daughter Is Different
Gitta, Hubay Péter lánya
1937
The New Relative
Kenyereslány
1934
Azurexpress
Teri
1938
The Lady is a Little Crazy
Takács Klári, Bimbi
1938
Be True Until Death
Bella, Viola húga
1936Kádár vs. Kerekes
Kádár Erzsi ügyvéd
1942
Vision by the Lake
1940
Just a Joke
Bende Etelka
1961
Wedding in Toprin
A gróf felesége
1939A ravaszdi leányzó és az IBUSZ vendégek
Fölcint Lajosné
1968
Torchlight
Kossuth's wife
1963
Good Evening, Love
Juhászné
1972
Queen Elizabeth
1940
Father
Anya
1966
There Are Exceptions
Kántor Vera
1937
A Kiss and That's All
Nadányi Ervinné, Anni
1941Pista tekintetes úr
1942
Az ördög nem alszik
Éva
1941
The Borrowed Castle
Gruber Mary
1937
Six Weeks of Happiness
Eva
1939Róza néni elintézi
Róza néni
The Wise Mother
Erzsike
1935
A tönk meg a széle
Olgika
1984
Don't Keep Off the Grass
Anna, Kéri felesége
1960
Gala Dinner
Márta
1956Back on the Road
Anny
1941
A Karantén Zóna
Panni
2022
Well, Young Man?
Sándor Bálint's wife
1963
Kojak in Budapest
Szalánczyné
1980
Tüz
Asztalos Mária
1948
Black Diamond
Teudelinda grófnő
1977
Kaviár és lencse
Matilde
1985
The Crucial Moment
Éva, Bálint Gábor felesége
1938
What a Night!
Karsai Klára
1958
Saroküzlet
Mama
1979
Egy asszony elindul
Bangháné, Ilonka
1949
Skylark
Tóni, Vajkayné
1965
Legato
Zarkóczy Rózsika
1977