Aladár Ihász

Biography

Aladár Ihász first drew breath on 27 June 1886 in the sun-baked market town of Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary. Between footlights and camera lenses he built a career that flickered across early cinema screens: audiences remember him clutching a borrowed infant in *A kölcsönkért csecsemök* (1915), marching in *Soldiers of the Emperor* (1918), and confronting the undead in the lost curiosity *Dracula’s Death* (1921). Offstage, two marriages—first to Elvira Poór, later to Emma Dom—wrote private scenes into his public story. His final curtain fell on 24 July 1960 in Oradea, Romania, closing a life that had spanned silent frames, two world wars, and three national borders.