Mickey Hargitay

Mickey Hargitay in Delirium

Mickey Hargitay (1926 - 2006)

Mr. Universe of 1955

Film Deaths

• Bloody Pit of Horror (Il Boia scarlatto; The Crimson Executioner; A Tale of Torture; Virgins for the Hangman) (1965) [Travis Anderson]: Poisoned when he's knocked against the poisoned spikes on the "Lover of Death" effigy in his dungeon, at the end of a fight with Walter Brandi.

• Delirium (Delirio caldo; Death at the Villa) (1972) [Herbert Lyutak]: Fatally beaten with a mace by Christa Barrymore; he dies shortly afterwards while crawling towards the entrance of the tunnel. (In the US cut of the film, a new opening and closing sequence were added; the epilogue of this version reveals that Mickey was actually killed in combat in Vietnam, and that the entire story has been his dying dream.) (Thanks to Bloodtys)

• The Reincarnation of Isabel (Riti, magie nere e segrete orge nel trecento; The Ghastly Orgies of Count Dracula; Rites, Black Magic and Secret Orgies in the Fourteenth Century) (1973) [Jack Nelson]: Crumbles into dust when Rita Calderoni rejects him during the black magic ritual. (The movie was very difficult to follow, so I'm unsure as to exactly what happened; I'm also unsure whether Mickey's 20th-century character was a reincarnation of his 14th-century character who was burned at the stake, or whether it was the same character made immortal by magic through the ages.)

TV Deaths

None known.

Noteworthy Connections

• Ex-husband of Jayne Mansfield
• Father of Mariska Hargitay