Kálmán Rózsahegyi

Biography

On the sixth of October, 1873, the village of Endrõd welcomed a restless bundle of lungs who would grow into Kálmán Rózsahegyi, the quick-silver character actor who could switch from buffoonery to heartbreak between two blinks. Silent screens met him first in 1915’s *Göre Marcsa lakodalma*, but it was the talking era that let audiences savor that velvet voice: he stole the Wednesday of 1933 and brandished a rose-wood cane in 1940’s *Rózsafabot*, each role stitched into Hungarian cinema’s living quilt. Offstage, he claimed one leading lady—Angéla Hevesi—who kept him company until Budapest’s lights dimmed for him on 27 August 1961.