Gyula Zilahy

Hungarian actor

Gyula Zilahy
Gyula Zilahy 1903
Born	Gyula Balogh (1859-01-22)22 January 1859 Zilah, Austria-Hungary
Died	16 May 1938(1938-05-16) (aged 79) Budapest, Hungary
Occupation	Actor

Gyula Zilahy (22 January 1859, Zilah – 16 May 1938, Budapest) was a Hungarian stage and film actor. He co-directed several films with Alexander Korda in 1914-1915 including Korda's first film Watchhouse in the Carpathians. Zilahy was born as Gyula Balogh in 1859 in Zilah (today Zalău, Romania) and his career began in 1876. From 1880-84 he worked in Kolozsvár (today Cluj-Napoca, Romania), then in Debrecen (1885–87), and in Szeged (1888).