Klári Tolnay
Acting • Born 1917-07-17 – Died 1998-10-27
Biography
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.
Filmography
73 credits
Adáshiba
Movie • 1979
The Dream Car
Movie • 1934
Sári
The Borrowed Castle
Movie • 1937
Gruber Mary
Love Is Not a Shame
Movie • 1940
Suzanne,francia nevelõnõ
Father
Movie • 1966
Anya
Willy the Sparrow
Movie • 1989
Verbéna, a tündér (voice)
Katyi
Movie • 1942
Varga Kató / Katyi
My Daughter Is Different
Movie • 1937
Gitta, Hubay Péter lánya
The Lady is a Little Crazy
Movie • 1938
Takács Klári, Bimbi
A tönk meg a széle
Movie • 1984
Olgika
Róza néni elintézi
Movie
Róza néni
Black Diamond
Movie • 1977
Teudelinda grófnő
Good Evening, Love
Movie • 1972
Juhászné
A Karantén Zóna
Movie • 2022
Panni
Tale on the 12 Points
Movie • 1957
Bartháné, patikus
Don't Keep Off the Grass
Movie • 1960
Anna, Kéri felesége
For Whom the Larks Sing
Movie • 1959
A Rose Garden of Six Acres
Movie • 1970
Ilka néni
There Are Exceptions
Movie • 1937
Kántor Vera
The Land of Angels
Movie • 1962
Miklós' mother
Skylark
Movie • 1965
Tóni, Vajkayné
Saroküzlet
Movie • 1979
Mama
A Kiss and That's All
Movie • 1941
Nadányi Ervinné, Anni
The Widow and the Police Officer
Movie • 1967
Mrs. Déry
Movie • 1951
Déryné
Just a Joke
Movie • 1961
Bende Etelka
Silent Monastery
Movie • 1941
Hasty Marriage
Movie • 1968
Anna - özvegy Komáromi Gézáné
Legato
Movie • 1977
Zarkóczy Rózsika
The Siege of Beszterce
Movie • 1948
Apolka
Time to Mature
Movie • 1976
Nagymama
Az ördög nem alszik
Movie • 1941
Éva
Lady Over the Abyss
Movie • 1943
Jánossy Éva
Kádár vs. Kerekes
Movie • 1942
Kádár Erzsi ügyvéd
Fleeing Man
Movie • 1943
Klára / Marianne
Alpine Sunlight
Movie • 1941
Fifi, a vezérigazgató lánya
Back on the Road
Movie • 1941
Anny
What a Night!
Movie • 1958
Karsai Klára
Dani
Movie • 1957
Aranka
The Music's the Thing
Movie • 1979
Zsazsa néni
The Aga's Testament
Movie • 1967
Babocsainé
Gentry Nest
Movie • 1942
Kovács Zsuzsi
Wedding in Toprin
Movie • 1939
A gróf felesége
Kojak in Budapest
Movie • 1980
Szalánczyné
A Bus Does Not Stop
Movie • 1962
Gala Dinner
Movie • 1956
Márta
There Was Once a Family
Movie • 1972
Bujták grófnõ
A ravaszdi leányzó és az IBUSZ vendégek
Movie • 1968
Fölcint Lajosné
The Wise Mother
Movie • 1935
Erzsike
The Crucial Moment
Movie • 1938
Éva, Bálint Gábor felesége
Féltékenység
Movie • 1943
Eszter
Three Bells
Movie • 1941
Well, Young Man?
Movie • 1963
Sándor Bálint's wife
Relatives
Movie • 1954
Egy asszony elindul
Movie • 1949
Bangháné, Ilonka
Tüz
Movie • 1948
Asztalos Mária
Queen Elizabeth
Movie • 1940
Kaviár és lencse
Movie • 1985
Matilde
Virrad
Movie • 1960
Elza, Szabó's wife
Six Weeks of Happiness
Movie • 1939
Eva
Azurexpress
Movie • 1938
Teri
Vision by the Lake
Movie • 1940
Férfihűség
Movie • 1942
Pista tekintetes úr
Movie • 1942
Keresztúton
Movie • 1942
The Song of Rákóczi
Movie • 1943
Krisztinka Oltay / Fruzsa néni / Cinka Panna
Szerencsés flótás
Movie • 1943
Dreams of Love
Movie • 1970
Kozima, Liszt leánya
Be True Until Death
Movie • 1936
Bella, Viola húga
Hungarian Folk Tales: Green Peter
Movie • 1977
Drága kisfiam!
Movie • 1978
Margit, anya
A bunker
TV • 1977
Martinné
Hungarian Folktales
TV • 1977
Mesemondó