Jenö Rejtö

Jenö Rejtö was born on Mar 29, 1905 in Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. Jenö Rejtö's big-screen debut came with Sportszerelem directed by Zoltán Farkas in 1938.

After a few years of acting 19 year old Jeno Rejto left Budapest to travel all around Europe, from Italy to Germany. In France he joined the Foreign Legion, from whom he escaped when he was taken to North-Africa. During his foreign-travels he had several different jobs like fisher, factory-worker, dancer, salesman, doc-worker, etc. When he returned to Hungary at the age of 27 he started to write plays with more or less success. In the 1930s he wrote novels, adventure novels, criminal novels and his well-known legionnaire novels. He wrote his works on Andrássy road in a coffee shop, and often paid for his coffees with his newly written stories.