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Hungarian film producer and media mogul Andy Vajna dies
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Andy Vajna, 74, a prominent figure of the Hungarian and international film industry, has died after a long illness in his Budapest home, the Hungarian National Film Fund told MTI on Sunday.
Vajna was the government commissioner in charge of the development of Hungary’s film industry.
According to index.hu, Andy Vajna was born in 1944 in Hungary, but his family moved the United States with the big emigration wave of 1956. His course of life is believed to have been quite adventurous.
He studied at the University of California Los Angeles and started working at the university’s Educational Motion Picture Department. Later he set up his own photo studio before establishing his own wig manufacturing company and operating cinemas in Hong Kong.
Vajna produced 59 films in all, including the Evita starring Madonna and Sylvester Stallone’s first three Rambo films.
He is mostly known for the movies he produced and for the different media projects he took part in. Among others, he played an important role in the careers of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, but Bruce Willis and Antonio Banderas can also be quite grateful for him.