
Acting
Born July 17, 1917 · Budapest, Hungary
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.

A Karantén Zóna
2022

Willy the Sparrow
1989

Kaviár és lencse
1985

A tönk meg a széle
1984

Kojak in Budapest
1980

Saroküzlet
1979

The Music's the Thing
1979

Adáshiba
1979

Drága kisfiam!
1978

Legato
1977

Black Diamond
1977
Time to Mature
1976

There Was Once a Family
1972

Good Evening, Love
1972

Dreams of Love
1970

A Rose Garden of Six Acres
1970

Hasty Marriage
1968
A ravaszdi leányzó és az IBUSZ vendégek
1968

The Aga's Testament
1967
The Widow and the Police Officer
1967

Father
1966

Skylark
1965

Well, Young Man?
1963

A Bus Does Not Stop
1962

The Land of Angels
1962

Just a Joke
1961

Don't Keep Off the Grass
1960

Virrad
1960

For Whom the Larks Sing
1959

What a Night!
1958

Dani
1957

Tale on the 12 Points
1957

Gala Dinner
1956

Relatives
1954

Mrs. Déry
1951

Egy asszony elindul
1949

Tüz
1948

The Siege of Beszterce
1948

Lady Over the Abyss
1943

The Song of Rákóczi
1943
Féltékenység
1943
Fleeing Man
1943

Szerencsés flótás
1943

Katyi
1942

Gentry Nest
1942
Kádár vs. Kerekes
1942

Férfihűség
1942
Pista tekintetes úr
1942

Keresztúton
1942

Az ördög nem alszik
1941
Silent Monastery
1941

Alpine Sunlight
1941
Back on the Road
1941

A Kiss and That's All
1941

Three Bells
1941

Queen Elizabeth
1940

Vision by the Lake
1940

Love Is Not a Shame
1940

Six Weeks of Happiness
1939

Wedding in Toprin
1939

The Lady is a Little Crazy
1938

The Crucial Moment
1938

Azurexpress
1938

My Daughter Is Different
1937

The Borrowed Castle
1937

There Are Exceptions
1937

Be True Until Death
1936
The Wise Mother
1935

The Dream Car
1934