André De Toth

André De Toth was born on May 15, 1913 in Hungary]. André De Toth's big-screen debut came with Boy, the Noszty directed by Steve Sekely in 1938. André De Toth is known for Superman directed by Richard Donner, Marlon Brando stars as Jor-El and Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor. André De Toth has got 2 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award André De Toth achieved is Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards. The upcoming new movie André De Toth plays is Antychryst which will be released on Jul 21, 2006.

Although he obtained a law degree from the Royal Hungarian University, Andre De Toth decided to become an actor, and spent several years on the stage. He then entered the Hungarian film industry, obtaining work as a writer, editor, second unit director and actor before finally becoming a director. He directed a few films just before the outbreak of WW II, when he fled to England. Alexander Korda gave him a job there, and when De Toth emigrated to the US in 1942, Korda got him a job as a second unit director on Le Livre de la jungle (1942). De Toth made his debut as a director in American films in 1944. He was known for his tough, hard-edged pictures, whether westerns or urban crime dramas, and showed no compunction about depicting violence in as realistic a manner as possible, an unusual and somewhat controversial attitude for the time. Probably his best known film is L'Homme au masque de cire (1953), a Vincent Price horror film shot in 3-D. As De Toth only had one eye, that put him in the somewhat odd position of shooting a film in a process in which he would never be able to see the result. That didn't seem to matter, though; the film was a critical and financial success, and is generally considered to be the best 3-D film ever made.