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Mickey Hargitay
Grandfather (Mickey Hargitay)
Character
Grandfather
Date of birth
January 6, 1926
Place of birth
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Date of death
September 14, 2006
Place of death
Los Angeles, California
IMDb profile

Mickey Hargitay was born in Hungary.

He was an underground resistance fighter after the Nazis coerced Hungary to sign the Tripartite Pact, forcing the kingdom to join the Axis powers in World War II.

He fled the country in 1947 to escape the compulsory Soviet military draft. In the United States he began bodybuilding and won the 1955 Championship title.

He, and actress Jayne Mansfield, are the parents of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit actress Mariska Hargitay. In 2003 he appeared in the Special Victims Unit episode "Control" with his daughter. His nephew Eddie Hargitay also had appearances in five episodes.

He died in 2006 of multiple myeloma.

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