Career
He appeared in leading roles at the Theater in der Josefstadt, the Salzburg Festival, and the Neues Deutsches Theater. He starred in several European films before moving to Hollywood, where a brief acting career led to a role in Howard Hawks" To Have and Have Not (under the name Walter Molnar). The couple wed in 1939 and remained together until Surovy"s death in 2001.
They had one child, a son, actor Nicolas Surovy.
In 1941, he founded the Polk-Szurovy Agency.