Stephen Bekassy

Stephen Bekassy, born in Nyíregyháza, was a Hungarian-born American film actor. His American stage work began in 1944, when he appeared in Errand for Berenice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A year later came his first American screen role, in A Song to Remember (1945). Among his 1954 films were Hell and High Water (1954) and Prisoner of War. On television he twice appeared on Perry Mason, playing the art expert Laslo Kovac in 1958 in The Case of the Purple Woman and, in 1959, Rick Stassi, a murder victim, in The Case of the Bartered Bikini. He also guest-starred in 1958 as Count Razil in Command Performance, an episode of the CBS sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve. In 1961 he was Monsieur Brissard in The Rifleman episode The Princess. He died in 1995.