[3] Koltai worked as a translator at the Nuremberg trials and later for the British Intelligence Corps as an investigator of war crimes.

"[4] In 1963, for the RSC at the Aldwych Theatre, London, he set Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy (also known as The Representative), about Pope Pius XII's connection to the Nazis.

[1] In 1984, when an RSC production of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac was being performed on Broadway, he told critic Michael Billington that he saw himself as a painter who treats the play as an art object.

"[4] In later life he lived in France taking found objects on local farms made of wood, metal and turning them into sculptures.

[5] One of these creations, a tree root, was surrounded by water in his stage design for Samuel West's revival of Howard Brenton's The Romans in Britain at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, in 2006.

[7] Koltai also took part in Rambert's 90th anniversary oral history project, talking about his work for dance.