A native of Zagreb, Rogoz started his actor's career in Vienna in Wiener Theater.

Rogoz became famous in Czechoslovakia as a guest in title roles when Ljubljana theater in 1927 played in Prague Shakespeare's Hamlet and Dostoevsky's The Idiot.

In the prewar period he appeared in many Czechoslovak films of the 1930s, including the 1933 erotic drama Ecstasy, featuring young Hedy Lamarr.

He then returned to Zagreb, playing in theater, cinema and television till his death.

Younger generations of Croatia remember him even more for his private life: he fathered a child at the age of 92.