Gyula Zilahy Explained

Gyula Zilahy
Birth Name:Gyula Balogh
Birth Date:22 January 1859
Birth Place:Zilah, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:Budapest, Hungary
Occupation:Actor

Gyula Zilahy (22 January 1859, Zilah – 16 May 1938, Budapest) was a Hungarian stage and film actor. He co-directed several films with Alexander Korda in 1914-1915 including Korda's first film Watchhouse in the Carpathians. Zilahy was born as Gyula Balogh in 1859 in Zilah (today Zalău, Romania) and his career began in 1876. From 1880-84 he worked in Kolozsvár (today Cluj-Napoca, Romania), then in Debrecen (1885–87), and in Szeged (1888).

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