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Ranked #11 in Croatian-based monthly film magazine "Hollywood" in «Best Croatian Male Movie Stars of All Time» list. (November 2005)

He became famous with his role in "Hamlet" , and was hired in Prague , where he gained international reputation.

He won the "Vladimir Nazor" award for life's work in 1966.

From 1919 to 1929 he was actor and director in Ljubljana.

He was the father of the actress Libusa Rogozová , who performed in the Prague National Theater between 1942 and 1944 , in some plays with her father.

In the late 1970s, he remarried as a widower (he was already 92 years old at the time), his wife, who was 63 years younger, gave birth to a son in 1980.

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 Idiot.

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

Rogoz remained in engagement in National Theatre in Prague from 1929 till 1949.

He studied at the VE Frühmann drama school in Vienna and worked at the National Theater in Zagreb in the 1907/1908 season .

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.

In addition to the theater, he also appeared in a number of films from 1930 .

Younger generations of Croatia remember him even more for his private life: he fathered a child at the age of 92. This and other events became the subject of his autobiographical book Mojih prvih 100 godina (My First 100 Years).

He studied acting in Vienna and Zagreb .

He was a Croatian actor who played in German, Croatian, Slovenian, Czech and Slovakian, on stage and in cinema, during a career long 81 years.

He is one of the few actors who successfully performed in several languages: Croatian , Slovenian , Czech and Slovak .

In October 1987 (on the occasion of his 100th birthday), he published his book memories (My first 100 years), where he had a picture of himself with his wife and then 7-year-old son on the back cover.

At one time he was the oldest active actor in the world.

In 1956, he moved to the Branko Gavelly Theatre. At the same time, he worked as a pedagogue at the Academy for Theater and Film Arts in Zagreb.