Biografía

25 de febrero de 1899 · Budapest, Hungría, antigua Austria-Hungría

9 de marzo de 1979 · Palm Springs, California, Estados Unidos (un cáncer de estómago)

István Székely

2/6/39: Signed by Grand National and will direct one of the upcoming features with that company. He has directed more than 40 features in Paris, Berlin and his native Budapest, and has been in the US for three months.

Hungarian-born director, a former journalist. From 1930 he made films in his own country, as well as in Germany. In Hollywood from 1939, he turned out mostly routine low-budget features for Poverty Row companies like PRC, Monogram, Grand National and Eagle Lion. Did arguably his best work on a minor film noir, La cicatriz (1948), and the cult sci-fi La amenaza verde (1963) (although he had a British co-director on that one).