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Mickey Hargitay: Biography

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Birth Name: Miklós Hargitay
Birth Place: Budapest, Hungary
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 01/06/1926, Capricorn
Date of Death: 09/14/2006
Profession: Actor; bodybuilder

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Mickey Hargitay Fast Facts:

Fled his native Hungary for the U.S. in 1947 in order to escape the Soviet military draft.
Won the National Amateur BodyBuilders Association's Mr. Universe title in 1955.
When actress Jayne Mansfield saw him in Mae West's New York nightclub act, she reportedly told a waiter at the club, "I'll have a steak and the man on the left." The two married in 1958.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, a fellow former bodybuilder, played him in the 1980 TV-movie The Jayne Mansfield Story.
Final acting appearance was a guest-starring role on a 2003 episode of NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, opposite his daughter, series star Mariska Hargitay.
Was inducted into the Muscle Beach Venice Bodybuilding Hall of Fame in May 2006.

Mickey Hargitay Relationships:
Tina Hargitay West - Daughter
Jayne Mansfield - Ex-wife
Mary Birge - Ex-wife
Miklós "Mickey" Hargitay Jr. - Son
Zoltan Hargitay - Son
Mariska Hargitay - Daughter
Maria Rothsischer Hargitay - Mother
Ellen Siano Hargitay - Wife
Ferenc Hargitay - Father
Eddie Hargitay - Brother
Eva Nemeth - Sister

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