RIP Péter Kálloy Molnár

 

Hungarian theater, film, television and voice actor, singer, musician, director, playwright, poet, literary translator Péter Kálloy Molnár died of cancer in Budapest on December 1^st. He was only 55. Born in Mezõcsát, Hungary on June 6, 1970, from 1991 he was a member of the company of the National Theatre. He graduated from the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in 1993 in the class of István Iglódi. Between 1993 and 1997 he was a member of the company of the Vígszínház. Since 1996, he has been the artistic director of the Komédium Kör. He has been a freelance artist since 1997, performing at Komédium, International Buda Stage and the Thália Theatre. Between 1999 and 2002 he was the chief director of the International Buda Stage. He was a regular on the television show Beugró, regularly received dubbing roles and also worked as a dubbing director. He has been reciting, playing guitar and piano since the age of six, and during his high school years and in the theatre arts he played in an orchestra, but later this was pushed into the background. His wife was Ágnes Lestár, a dubbing director and drama writer, whose mother is actress Szilvia Dallos, and father is film director János Lestár. They have two children: István and Szofi. In 2021, he started writing his own film screenplays. Péter appeared in an uncredited role in the Hungarian western “No Hero Here” in 2015. He was also the Hungarian voice of Enrique Martínez in “800 Bullets”, Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Cold Mountain”, Ran Tan Plan in “Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure”.