Although many Euro-western film viewers may think Mike
Brendel was a Spanish born actor who appeared as a character actor in several
Spanish Euro-western during the 1950s and 1960s he was actually Hungarian born Mihaly
Orgovanyi. He was born in 1910 in Erdőkürt, Nógrád County, Hungary. He was
actually a wrestler turned actor who was the European Champion with over 400
wins and no losses. After winning the European World Championship he toured the
US and Canada before returning to Spain and devoting the rest of his career to
acting, appearing in over 35 films from 1953 until his death in Madrid on
August 18, 1969.
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