1856-1919
Hungarian silent film actor Péter Andorffy was born on this day in the town of Eger. A comedian by trade, Andorffy, like Jan Buderman, got his start is film much later in life; and owed to the fact that he died at 63, he didn't appear in that many films. Andorffy apparently got into performance at the young age of 15, when he left home to join a group of traveling performers. He would go on the have a rather brilliant stage career specializing in comedies. His established stage career spanned the years 1874-1905. He retired from acting to become a theater director, graduating to a theatrical chief executive in Budapest, finally ending up as secretary of theater before retiring in 1912. So his film "career" was actually just something to do in retirement. He debuted in film three years into his retirement in 1915 with Lyon Lea, released in November. It was an early Alexander Korda film (credited as Korda Sándor). Fully half of his short film career came in roles he took in 1915, with the other four spanning between the years 1916 and 1919. One of his film appearances in 1915 came in an early Michael Curtiz (credited as Kertész Mihály) film One Who Is Loved (Akit ketten szerettnek), a film that Curtiz also acted in. The most well known film in which he appeared was also his last. He had a small role in the Alfréd Deésy film Casanova, which starred Bela Lugosi as the famous lover in his last Hungarian film before departing for the German film industry (Deésy had used Andorffy in several character roles before). The film was released roughly two months after Andorffy's death in May of 1919. He passed away on the 30th in Balatonfüred. There are no specifics on his burial, but an information site originally in Hungarian on the village of Balatonfüred has him listed as dying and buried there. Multiple sources list only two main cemeteries in the town, one is Jewish and the other is the Balatronács temetõ.
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