Pál Királyhegyi (27 December 1900[1] – 7 August 1981) was a Hungarian comedian, journalist, author and screenwriter.

He was born in a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, to Berta Himler and Jenő Királyhegyi.

[1] He emigrated to the US at the age of 19 where at first he worked as a journalist at Hungarian newspapers, from 1927 to 1931 he was a figurant, later a screenwriter in Hollywood.

In 1931 he returned to Hungary, and continued working at Hungarian newspapers, such as Pesti Napló, Új Idők or Színházi Élet, until 1938, when he emigrated to England, from where he came back to Budapest in 1941.

Three years later he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, luckily he survived the war and returned to Hungary.

" One shouldn't take too seriously women, the kisses, the trains, the cities, the people, this whole great everything, life.