Andre de Toth interview, 1996 March 24

File

Identifier: MSS 9068 File 47

Staff Only

Dates

Creation: 1996 March 24

Creator

D'Arc, James V. (interviewer, Person)
de Toth, Andre, 1912-2002 (interviewee, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Collection of interviews by James D'Arc must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Coordinating Committee.

Biographical / Historical

James Vincent D'Arc was born in Los Angeles, California on August 7, 1950. In the early 1970s, D'Arc was accepted into Brigham Young University, where he majored in history. A film appreciation class taught by Dr. Charles M. Metten in 1973 motivated D’Arc to receive a PhD in film history from BYU in 1986. During his time as a student, he was also hired in what was then called the "Archives and Manuscripts Division” at BYU, where he began gathering film-related materials for the Archives. During 1990 D'Arc was also employed as a professor of film in BYU's Theatre and Media Arts College in addition to his position as a curator. James D'Arc retired from BYU in August 2017.

Biographical / Historical

Andre de Toth was born Sasvári Farkasfalvi Tóthfalusi Tóth Endre Antal Mihály on May 12, 1912 in Austria-Hungary. He studied law at the Royal Hungarian University, but went on to be an actor and ultimately a director. He made his debut in American film in 1944. Andre de Toth passed away October 27, 2002 in Burbank, California.