---
name: "Walter Surovy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/walter-szurovy"
fi1m_id: "walter-szurovy"
imdb_id: "nm0844346"
tmdb_id: 99323
wikidata_id: "Q7966232"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "28 May 1910"
died: "4 November 2001"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T03:39:43.067897+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Walter Surovy

## Identity

Walter Surovy

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/walter-szurovy
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** walter-szurovy
- **IMDb ID:** nm0844346
- **TMDB ID:** 99323
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7966232
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Surovy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7966232, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0844346/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/99323

Actor. Born 28 May 1910 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria). Died 4 November 2001.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 28 May 1910, Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
- **Died:** 4 November 2001
- **Also known as:** Walter Szurovy
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Surovy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7966232, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0844346/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/99323

## Biography

Walter Surovy, also credited as Walter Szurovy and sometimes Walter Molnar, was an Austrian stage and film actor. Born in Vienna on 28 May 1910, he began his career on the Vienna stage and appeared in leading roles at the Theater in der Josefstadt, the Salzburg Festival and the Neues Deutsches Theater. He starred in several European films in the late 1930s before emigrating to the United States.

In Hollywood he took a supporting role as Paul de Bursac in Howard Hawks's *To Have and Have Not* (1944). He founded the Polk-Szurovy talent agency in 1941 and later managed the career of his wife, mezzo-soprano Risë Stevens, whom he married in 1939. Their son, Nicolas Surovy, also became an actor. Surovy's final screen appearance was in the 1951 West German film *Falschmünzer am Werk*. He died in Manhattan on 4 November 2001.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *To Have and Have Not* (1945), Fi1m 84, as Paul de Bursac — [page](https://film.one/film/to-have-and-have-not.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *To Have and Have Not* (1945), as Paul de Bursac — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/to-have-and-have-not.md)
- *Hotel Sacher* (1939), Actor
- *Not a Word About Love* (1937), as Fred Curry

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