| HH: Hanna Hertelendy obituary | | Noted film and television supporting actress Hanna Hertelendy passed away peacefully at her West Hollywood home on May 15, 2008. She was born as Ilona Zimka near Budapest on October 5, 1919, and married Istvan Hertelendy in 1940. At a young age she became a well-respected and successful stage actress in Budapest, featured as Ophelia in Hamlet, as Irina in Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” in Molnar’s “Liliom” (later adapted as “Carousel”), and in J. B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls” and “Unexpected Guests,” and starred in several Hungarian movies at the end of World War II. In 1945 she married American consul Ernst Polutnik and was instrumental in helping many Hungarians obtain visas and passage to the United States, including the Gabor sisters and mother. She came to New York and joined the Actors Studio in 1947-she was a life-long member. She worked for Radio Free Europe and was featured in many television dramas in the 1950’s under her American stage name, Hanna Landy, including one of the first General Electric Theaters (1954), the Kraft Television Theatre, Lux Video Theatre, the Alcoa Hour, Ford Television Theatre, et al. She continued to act in many television series, including featured appearances in Peter Gunn, Perry Mason, Barnaby Jones, Ironside, Marcus Welby, the Fugitive, Dr. Kildare, and Colombo. She changed her name back to Hanna Hertelendy in the mid-1970’s and acted in television and film until the late 1990’s, including featured roles in Matlock, Hill Street Blues, Remington Steele, Family Ties, St. Elsewhere, Magnum, P.I., and Cannon. Her movie roles included the lead in “Fort Courageous,” the second female lead in James Coburn’s “In Like Flint,” as Grace Cardiff in “Rosemary’s Baby” (who delivers the book about witches to Rosemary), and in supporting roles in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “Harlow,” “Gus,” “The Girl from Petrovka,” “Two-Minute Warnings,” “Being There,” “Christmas Lilies of the Field,” and many others. Hanna was very active for over four decades with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and with Theater West in North Hollywood. She was married to the Hungarian-American actor, Stephen Bekassy, and was life-long friends with Naomi Caryl, Maxine Stuart and David Shaw, Joan Van Patten, Lee Grant and Joe Furey, Betty Garrett, Lee Meriwether, Norma Connolly and Howard Rodman, and many others. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Motion Picture & Television Fund (www.mptvfund.org). |
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