Gábor Rajnay

Acting

Gábor Rajnay

Born — Died

1885-05-11 — 1961-07-10

Place of birth

Arad, Austria-Hungary (now Romania)

Known for

Acting

Credits

42 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 12 titles

Summer Clouds poster
8.0

20-year-old Gida, having just survived his first amourous disappointment, falls for Katinka, the young widow, at first sight.

Summer Clouds

1957

A Strange Marriage poster
8.0

Count János Buttler rushes home to his parents and his beloved for the school holidays. On the way, they stop at Baron Dőry's house, where János is deviously trapped. In the presence of false witnesses, he is forcibly married to Baron Dőry's pregnant daughter. The swearing priest is the father of the unborn child. Although Buttler, his family and friends do their utmost to have the marriage annulled, the Church and the court, fearing for his authority, will not allow it. John Buttler and his lover therefore choose another way to divorce.

A Strange Marriage

1951

Me and My Grandpa poster
7.7

A few days from a daily life of a regular school in Hungary during fifties.

Me and My Grandpa

1954

Lily Boy poster
6.9

Set in the "Golden Era" of the wandering Hungarian theatre troupes. Mariska and Liliomfi fall in love without suspecting that Mariska's foster father, Professor Szilvay, is also Liliomfi's uncle. Soon the couple must contend with the professor's plan to make Liliomfi give up his "unrespectable" profession of acting by exposing the professor's hypocrisy, greed, and tyrannical selfishness.

Lily Boy

1955

At Midnight poster
7.0

On New Year's Eve in 1956 the artist couple, the actor János and the dancer Viki are hastily packing. While they are waiting for the car, which is to take them across the border, their entire life is replayed in front of their eyes.

At Midnight

1957

Mrs. Déry poster
8.0

The story, which takes place in the reform era, centres around Mrs. Déry, a legendary actress, who, along with her fellow actors and actresses, travels around the country to become the herald of the Hungarian language, performing in villages and towns up and down the land as strolling players, a woman who is not put off by the prospect of starvation and the dearth of a home to return to and security to live in.

Mrs. Déry

1951

The Football Star poster
6.5

Cabinet crisis threatens in Futbólia, due to a series of lost matches. The head of state charges admiral Duca with the task, as a last chance, to get hold of the football star of the Hungarian team presently playing in Switzerland.

The Football Star

1957

Relatives poster
8.0

The hero of the story taking place at the end of the twenties is the modest civil servant, doctor Kopjáss who is suddenly appointed to be the chief attorney of Zsarátnok city. He realises slowly that his immaculate name was needed as a cover for the corrupt loan transactions handled by the lords of the city.

Relatives

1954

Erkel poster
9.5

We have linguists, we have literary men, we have newspapers, actors, musicians, but we have no national opera!", lamented the champions of national revival in the middle of the last century. Hungarian music culture at home is limited to the performance of works by foreign composers. And the public demands Hungarian opera, and such a challenge is not easy to meet. So let's see who is up to the task!

Erkel

1952

Hit and Run poster
7.5

Judge Csanádi András makes a confession to his boss one night: he fell in love with the pretty, modern driver woman, Zenthe Judit in a fencing room. The girl suddenly returned his feelings. One night she confessed to him crying: she hit someone. The case was assigned to Csanádi, who wanted to investigate the circumstances meticulously despite his feelings. Thus the so far hidden life of Judit, which is bound to the past former world and its values is now highlighted. He is confused, asks his boss to absolve him from the assignment, but refuses to do so. Csanádi realises in the court room: Judit kept on telling lies, she played the lover for her own interest. The judge passed his crisis, he will deliver a fair sentence.

Hit and Run

1955

Young at Heart poster
10.0

In the vocational school the professionally excellent Dani János works on his own invention in his leisure time, but he does not like learning. However, even his own father learns in the evenings, he will become a teacher.

Young at Heart

1953

Springtime in Budapest poster
7.5

At Christmas Eve in 1944 the runaway Pintér and Gozsó get through the Soviet blockade around Budapest. Pintér intends to hide in a flat abandoned by his own relatives, but he finds his relatives called the Turnovszkys, who are hiding the Jewish Jutka as well. Love unfolds between Zoltán and Jutka.

Springtime in Budapest

1955

1940s · 15 titles

Házassággal kezdődik poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Házassággal kezdődik

1943

Prince Bob poster
7.0

In Luxoria Prince Igor is preparing to accede to the throne and choose his wife on his 24th birthday. The mother Duchess's candidate is Duchess Xenia, but Igor loves Annie, the soap-maker's daughter.

Prince Bob

1941

Könnyű múzsa poster
8.7

No synopsis available yet.

Könnyű múzsa

1947

The Siege of Beszterce poster
7.8

The film evokes count Pongrácz, who, as late as the 19th century, managed to live a life, which reminds one of his medieval ancestor's values. He acts in defiance of the town by fighting his own battle against it, having been offended by the town.

The Siege of Beszterce

1948

A Kiss and That's All poster
8.0

Anni, a young woman on the verge of divorce, moves into a hotel until the trial, where she meets a charming young man, Albert Sándor. Despite the fact that the lawsuit would prevent Anni from getting involved in a new relationship, she agrees to a compromising meeting. Only on the day of the trial does it become clear that Albert Sándor is the lawyer of Anni's husband, who doesn't want to hear about the divorce, and has been keeping a private eye on her. Anni thinks she is being set up.

A Kiss and That's All

1941

No Entry poster
8.5

Tóni is a delivery man in a furniture shop. As he has no place to go, he spends the nights in an antique bed in the shop window.

No Entry

1941

Alpine Sunlight poster
8.0

Ágnes, Vass and Kriszt run a sanatorium for consumptives. Fifi, daughter of the institute owner is also here, mortally ill. Feri, the ski trainer relieves her with his courtship every now and then from her boredom and distress.

Alpine Sunlight

1941

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kadétszerelem

1941

Halálos csók poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Halálos csók

1942

One Fool Makes a Hundred poster
10.0

Dömötör, a headwaiter, and Rudi, his friend, a conductor, are dismissed. Later, they return as guests. Dömötör is seen sporting a false beard, now the spitting image of count Rod-Igor Su-Arezew, the world-famous lion-hunter.

One Fool Makes a Hundred

1942

Régi nyár poster
NR

It rarely happens that a parent is not happy that their son is serious, hardworking and interested in nothing but work and the land. Well, our Péter Tamássy is like that. Péter's son is only interested in farming, so the father, who was a playboy in his youth, decides that before Péter gets married, he will introduce him to society a little. And to make sure that the child gets into good company, he entrusts him to his old love, the prima donna Ria. (Honthy Hanna in a wonderful movie role.)

Régi nyár

1942

This Happened in Budapest poster
NR

Pataky Elemér arrives in the capital as a victim in his niece's divorce case. Having to meet the lawyer dr. Orbói István is, however, an alibi in an effort to get away from his quarrelsome wife, and to have some fun at the same time. He takes the lawyer with him.

This Happened in Budapest

1944

Janika poster
7.7

After a 15-year absence, the famous actress' expatriate husband returns to Hungary to settle their divorce. The actress is rehearsing the role of a young boy back home when her husband walks in. Seeing the little boy, the husband thinks that Janika is his child, but the actress fails to inform him of the mistake.

Janika

1949

Tüz poster
10.0

The first Hungarian spy film ripped the mask off those ministerial officials who, having sold out to foreign agents, sabotaged the rebuilding of Hungarian factories and plants destroyed by the war. In the film, spies and saboteurs with wallets full of dollars and pistols in their hands set fire to Hungarian factories. The former ruling class was reluctant to give up its place in life and had to be fought to the death.

Tüz

1948

Egér a palotában poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Egér a palotában

1942

1930s · 11 titles

Billeting poster
NR

The Takács family receive a marriage proposal, but Ágnes does not like the suitor.

Billeting

1938

Two Prisoners poster
NR

A Hungarian soldier is taken prisoner by the Russians and sent to a Siberian prison camp. Meanwhile the years of loneliness are too much for his wife to bear.

Two Prisoners

1938

Ida regénye poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ida regénye

1934

No artwork available
10.0

Dr Péter Gergely, assistant professor at the University of Budapest, and his wife Mária celebrate their wedding anniversary. They are listening to Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. VI when he is called in sick. Left alone, she goes to an address given by an unknown caller, where she finds her husband in the arms of a strange woman. She does not believe in her husband's innocence, divorces him and marries the lawyer Dr. Tibor Máté, who has been besieging her for years. In despair, Peter attempts suicide, and the unknown girl who caused the tragedy appears at his bedside. The journalist István Bálint discovers that the girl was paid off by Dr. Máté and unmasks the instigator. Peter recovers, but the excitement causes him to lose his memory. Mary and the doctor reminisce about their wedding anniversary. The experiment succeeds, he remembers everything, and they resume their life together where they left off: listening to Tchaikovsky's symphony.

Anniversary

1936

Armchair poster
8.0

The architect András is at an auction bidding for an old period furniture, an armchair.

Armchair

1939

Young Noszty and Mary Toth poster
7.5

Another winner from Hungarian director Ivan Szekely (aka S.K. Seeley and Steve Sekely), A Nosty fiu Esete Toth Marival was released in English-speaking regions as I Married for Love. Feri Noszty (Paul Javor) is a handsome but irresponsible Hussar officer who prefers a life of wine, women and song to his military responsibilities. Unwilling to bow to family pressure, Feri refuses to marry heiress Mary Toth (Eva Szorenyi) for her dowry alone. But Mary falls in love with the prideful Feri, and to win his affections she poses as her own poverty-stricken maid. Based on a novel by Kalman Mikszath, A Noszty Fiu Esete Toth Marival was filmed simultaneously in Hungarian- and German-language versions.

Young Noszty and Mary Toth

1938

The Borrowed Castle poster
8.5

Among the Gruber family, the rumor spreads like wildfire that their wealthy American relative, Menyhért Gruber, is visiting Hungary with his daughter, Mary. Various plans are devised to exploit the rich relative. The boldest of them all is the plan of Bálint Koltay, who directly pursues Mary's hand. However, the young ones fall in love with each other so deeply that Bálint stands by Mary even when the "wealthy" Gruber informs him that he's bankrupt. At this point, the only thing left to arrange is for Bálint, who poses as a landowner, to actually present a noble castle to his future father-in-law.

The Borrowed Castle

1937

My Daughter Is Different poster
10.0

Gitta is 20 years old, a girl with modern attitudes, who is courted by Ferenc Fekete. Not particularly liked by Gitta's parents, especially her old-fashioned father, Fekete dates Gitta in secret.

My Daughter Is Different

1937

Biting Husband poster
10.0

Péter Ilosvay and Lina Vásárhelyi are wife and husband, but don't come along with each other. After the divorce they go on living under the same roof for they are unable to agree on the common wealth.

Biting Husband

1938

Crow On the Tower poster
9.0

Lenke, a schoolgirl in Budapest, is in love with László, a middle-aged widower, owner of the estate in the neighbourhood of her own country home. She secretly follows him in Budapest, and they finally meet.

Crow On the Tower

1938

Three Spinsters poster
10.0

A greedy man is taught a lesson by his three aunts who are tired of his demands for more money, forcing them to hire an actress to flirt with him and learn the truth about his actual inheritance.

Three Spinsters

1936