Theodore Zichy

[citation needed] Born in Eastbourne in Sussex in 1908, the son of Count Béla Mária Rudolf Zichy de Zich et Vásonkeő (1868–1944), a Hungarian aristocrat, and an American mother, Mabel Elizabeth Wright (1865–1926),[1] his brother was Edward George Béla Mária Zichy de Zich et Vásonkeő (1898–1958).

Some forty years later, he recalled his experiences as a ferry pilot in various articles published in Aeroplane Monthly magazine.

[4] As an actor Zichy appeared as 2nd in Command in Gasbags (1941), Colonel Borg in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), as the Duel Referee in the TV movie Liebelei (1954), and as a German Agent in Private's Progress (1956).

[6] On 20 February 1928, he married Xenia V. Howard Johnston (1904–1931) in Paris, France; the couple divorced in 1930.

Count Theodore Zichy died by suicide at home, 8 Sandwich Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1 on 30 December 1987.