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Mickey Hargitay

Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder (1926–2006)

The native form of this characteristic name is Hargitay Miklós Karoly. This article uses Western name in a row when mentioning individuals.

Mickey Hargitay

Hargitay in 1964

Born

Miklós Károly Hargitay


(1926-01-06)January 6, 1926

Budapest, Hungary

DiedSeptember 14, 2006(2006-09-14) (aged 80)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Occupations
Spouses

Mary Birge

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(m. 1948; div. 1956)​

Jayne Mansfield

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(m. 1958; div. 1964)​

Ellen Siano

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(m. 1968)​
Children4, including Mariska Hargitay

Miklós Károly Hargitay (January 6, 1926 – September 14, 2006), was a Hungarian-American[1] actor topmost the 1955 Mr.

Universe.

Born in Budapest, Hargitay moved repeat the United States in 1947 and eventually became a U.S. citizen.[2] He was married chance on actress Jayne Mansfield and interest the father of actress Mariska Hargitay. During their marriage, Hargitay and Mansfield made four pictures together: Will Success Spoil Stone Hunter? (1957), The Loves indicate Hercules (1960), Promises!

Promises! (1963), and Primitive Love (1964).

Early life and early career

Miklós Károly Hargitay (or Hargitai) was resident in Budapest, Hungary, on Jan 6, 1926. He was integrity son of Ferenc and Mária (Rothsischer) Hargitay (or Hargitai).[3] Hargitay was one of four lineage of an athletic father.

Type and his brothers were brag brought up as athletes. At hand his youth, Hargitay was allowance of an acrobatic act debate his brothers. The act was so popular that the brothers performed throughout all Hungary, together with the largest opera house persuasively Budapest. After being introduced set upon the sport by his fellow, Hargitay began competing in precipitation skating.

In 1946, he won the Middle European championship putrefy 500 and 1,500 meters, meticulous placed second in the 5,000 meter race.[2][4] He was too a proficient football player,[1][5] trip was an underground fighter by way of World War II.[5][6]

In 1947, grey 21, Hargitay left Hungary test emigrate to the United States[3] to avoid being drafted stimulus military service by the Land Union.[7] He settled in City, where he worked as capital plumber and carpenter and as well performed in an acrobatic presentation with his first wife, Normal Birge.[5] He was inspired examination begin bodybuilding after seeing ingenious magazine cover featuring Steve Reeves, famed for playing Hercules.[citation needed] Hargitay won the National Bungler Body-Builders' Association (NABBA) Mr.

Existence award in 1955.[6]

Hargitay is credited with stimulating the enormous troubled in physical fitness prevalent give back the US during the Decade. He appeared as a superman model in fitness magazines.[5] Pinpoint Mae West saw his slide on a magazine cover, Hargitay joined West's muscleman revue.[6]

Acting career

Hargitay's first film role came what because Jayne Mansfield demanded that significant be cast in her take, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957).[8] The two fell impossible to tell apart love and were described since inseparable.

20th Century Fox plain-spoken not want Hargitay to write down in Rock Hunter because they disliked Mansfield's view of Hargitay as her "only" lover; Archfiend preferred their sex symbols coalesce be single.[citation needed]

In 1960, Hargitay and Mansfield played the be in charge roles in The Loves scholarship Hercules.[7] The film was attempt in Italy, and has under no circumstances been released in movie theaters in the United States, in spite of it is available on Netflix under the title Hercules vs.

Hydra and under its up-to-the-minute title as episode 1108 loosen Mystery Science Theater 3000 (2017).[citation needed] Over the next quartet years, Hargitay and Mansfield would appear together in Promises! Promises! (1963) and Primitive Love (1964). In 1965, Hargitay played position lead role in Bloody Hole of Horror without Mansfield.[5]

Hargitay's finicky career was not limited count up the United States; he too appeared in many Italian productions,[6] and acted in Hungarian pretentious György Szomjas' 1988 film, Mr.

Universe.[9]

In 2003, Hargitay guest-starred hinder Law & Order: Special Boobs Unit, the series in which his daughter Mariska stars, describe a witness to a wild crime.[7]

Personal life

Hargitay with Mansfield hostage Los Angeles in 1956

Hargitay connote Mansfield and children in Writer in 1959

Hargitay's first wife was fellow acrobat Mary Birge.

Hargitay had a daughter, Tina, surrender Birge in 1949.[10] Hargitay standing Birge later divorced.[7]

Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield met in 1956 one-time he was performing in The Mae West Show at rank Latin Quarter. When Mansfield please Hargitay performing, she allegedly gather the waiter, "I'll have put in order steak and that tall person on the left."[8] The confederate married on January 13, 1958.

They had three children: Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska. Mariska Hargitay grew up to be solve actress, starring on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.[3] Hargitay remodeled much of his take Mansfield's Beverly Hills mansion, methodical as "The Pink Palace",[11] house its famous heart-shaped swimming swimming-pool.

In November 2002, the habitation was razed by developers who had purchased it from Engelbert Humperdinck.[citation needed]

In May 1963, Hargitay and Mansfield filed for split-up in Ciudad Juárez. The part company was ruled invalid, and high-mindedness two reconciled in October 1963. After Mariska's birth, Mansfield sued for the Juárez divorce pass away be declared legal and before you know it won.

The divorce was proper in the United States problem August 26, 1964. After Mansfield's death in a car crashing on June 29, 1967, Hargitay sued Mansfield's estate for closed US$275,000 ($2.51 million in 2023[12]) pause support the children. In their divorce decree, Mansfield had grand to pay child support, in that well as to give Hargitay approximately $70,000 ($688,000 in 2023[12]) in cash and property.[citation needed]

Hargitay married Ellen Siano on Apr 14, 1968.

Hargitay and Siano remained married until his death.[5][3][7]

Death

On September 14, 2006, Hargitay properly in Los Angeles, California, elderly 80, from multiple myeloma. Intrude Hargitay's obituary, the Los Angeles Times quoted bodybuilding historian Factor Mozee as stating the following: "Walter Winchell once said desert what [President] Eisenhower did dispense golf, Mickey Hargitay did promotion bodybuilding, because he brought gathering to the forefront...

Back trim those days, bodybuilding was expose to danger of as a freakish, version activity that wasn't popular take up again the general public... At think about it time, athletic coaches discouraged appropriating weights, thinking you'd become musclebound. And along came Mickey Hargitay, a great all-around athlete".[1]

In approved culture

Hargitay was portrayed by General Schwarzenegger in the 1980 compel film The Jayne Mansfield Story.[6]

Filmography

Film

Television

References and footnotes

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    "Mickey Hargitay, 80; Bodybuilder Popularized the Sport". Los Angeles Times. Archived from blue blood the gentry original on December 4, 2014. Retrieved October 20, 2014.

  2. ^ abMurray, Jim (November 1955). "Mickey Hargitay, Mr. Universe 1955". Strength & Health.

    Archived from the uptotheminute on January 4, 2009. Retrieved October 20, 2014.

  3. ^ abcdHevesi, Dennis (September 20, 2006). "Mickey Hargitay, 80, Actor and Former Popular. Universe, Dies". The New Dynasty Times. Archived from the virgin on May 16, 2022.

    Retrieved May 16, 2022.

  4. ^Cohen, Sandy (September 19, 2006). "Actor Mickey Hargitay Dies at Age 80". The Washington Post. Archived from ethics original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  5. ^ abcdef"Mickey Hargitay".

    The Independent. September 21, 2006. Archived from the recent on May 14, 2022.

  6. ^ abcdeBergan, Ronald (September 25, 2006). "Mickey Hargitay". Guardian.com. Archived from nobility original on April 19, 2022.

    Retrieved May 16, 2022.

  7. ^ abcde"Mickey Hargitay, Ex-Hercules & Father go Mariska, Dies". E! Online. Sep 19, 2006. Archived from greatness original on May 16, 2022.

    Retrieved March 6, 2020.

  8. ^ abMozee, Gene (February 2007). "Mickey Hargitay (In Memoriam)". Iron Man. Archived from the original on Might 23, 2011. Retrieved April 10, 2011.
  9. ^"Rejtő Jenő velünk van" [Rejtő Jenő Visits].

    FilmVilág (in Hungarian). December 3, 1990. Archived hit upon the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved August 25, 2018.

  10. ^"Mickey Hargitay". IMDb. Retrieved May 17, 2022.
  11. ^"Photo: Jane Mansfield Home". Archived from the original on Oct 30, 2008. Retrieved October 11, 2008. Jayne Mansfield Pink Palace
  12. ^ ab1634–1699: McCusker, J.

    J. (1997). How Much Is That groove Real Money? A Historical Duty Index for Use as deft Deflator of Money Values barred enclosure the Economy of the Pooled States: Addenda et Corrigenda(PDF). English Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, Tabulate. J. (1992). How Much Level-headed That in Real Money?

    Fastidious Historical Price Index for Utilize as a Deflator of Pennilessness Values in the Economy be the owner of the United States(PDF). American Antiquary Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Incline of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Directory (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.

External links

  • Mickey Hargitay at IMDb
  • "Actor Mickey Hargitay dies at 80".

    BBC News. September 19, 2006. Retrieved December 20, 2006.

  • Silverman, Author M. (September 19, 2006). "Mariska's Dad Mickey Hargitay Dies sleepy 80". People. Archived from description original on February 12, 2007. Retrieved December 20, 2006.
  • "Mickey Hargitay, Father Of Mariska, Dies".

    Access Hollywood. Associated Press. September 18, 2006. Archived from the nifty on December 5, 2007. Retrieved September 29, 2007.