1. Miklos Karoly Hargitay was a Hungarian-American actor and the 1955 Mr Universe.
16 Facts About Mickey Hargitay
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Mickey Hargitay was married to actress Jayne Mansfield and is the father of actress Mariska Hargitay.
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Miklos Karoly Mickey Hargitay was born in Budapest, Hungary, on January 6,1926.
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Mickey Hargitay was the son of Ferenc and Maria Hargitay.
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Mickey Hargitay was one of four children of an athletic father.
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Mickey Hargitay was a proficient football player, and was an underground fighter during World War II.
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In 1947, aged 21, Mickey Hargitay left Hungary to emigrate to the United States to avoid being drafted into military service by the Soviet Union.
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Mickey Hargitay settled in Cleveland, where he worked as a plumber and carpenter and performed in an acrobatic act with his first wife, Mary Birge.
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Mickey Hargitay was inspired to begin bodybuilding after seeing a magazine cover featuring Steve Reeves, famed for playing Hercules.
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Mickey Hargitay won the National Amateur Body-Builders' Association Mr Universe award in 1955.
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Mickey Hargitay is credited with stimulating the enormous interest in physical fitness prevalent in the US during the 1950s.
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Mickey Hargitay appeared as a pin-up model in fitness magazines.
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In 1965, Mickey Hargitay played the lead role in Bloody Pit of Horror without Mansfield.
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Mickey Hargitay remodeled much of his and Mansfield's Beverly Hills mansion, known as "The Pink Palace", building its famous heart-shaped swimming pool.
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On September 14,2006, Mickey Hargitay died in Los Angeles, California, aged 80, from multiple myeloma.
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Mickey Hargitay was portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1980 television film The Jayne Mansfield Story.