Charles Korvin
Actor, Film actor
1907 – 1998
Who was Charles Korvin?
Charles Korvin was a film and television actor. The Hungarian actor moved to the United States in 1940 after studying at the Sorbonne. Korvin made his stage debut on Broadway in 1943 using the name Geza Korvin. After signing a movie contract with Universal Pictures, he changed his stage name to Charles Korvin. He worked steadily through the 1940s, including appearing in three films with actress Merle Oberon. In the 1950s, after leaving Universal, he played a number of "villain" roles in films and television including a Russian agent named Rokov in Tarzan's Savage Fury starring Lex Barker as the title character. In 1957, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. On television, he played The Eagle on Disney's Zorro and, famously, played Latin dance instructor Carlos on The Honeymooners episode "Mama Loves Mambo." In 1959 he starred in the US/UK television series Interpol Calling. Korvin died at the age of 90 in Manhattan.
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- Born
- Nov 21, 1907
Piešťany - Also known as
- Geza Korvin Karpathi
- Géza Korvin
- Géza Korvin Kárpáthy
- Geza Korvin
- Spouses
- Helena Maria Fredricks
(1945 - 1955) - Natasha Korvin
( - 1998/06/18)
- Helena Maria Fredricks
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Hungary
- Profession
- Education
- University of Paris
- Died
- Jun 18, 1998
Manhattan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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