Tony Gilroy
Gilroy in 2009, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Anthony Joseph Gilroy
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: September 11, 1956
Ethnicity:
*25% Irish
*12.5% Italian
*12.5% German
*50% Hungarian
Tony Gilroy is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He directed the films Michael Clayton (2007), Duplicity (2009), and The Bourne Legacy (2012).
He is the son of Ruth Dorothy (Gaydos), a sculptor and writer, and Frank D. Gilroy, an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and movie director and producer. His siblings are writer/director Dan Gilroy and editor John Gilroy. He is married to Susan, and has two children.
Tony’s paternal grandfather was Frank B. Gilroy (the son of Hugh Joseph Gilroy and Hannah McCarty). Frank was born in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Hugh was born in West, Sligo, Ireland. Hannah was born in Cork, Ireland.
Tony’s paternal grandmother was Bettina Vasti (the daughter of Tony Vasti and Augusta Bachmann). Tony’s great-grandfather Tony was of Italian descent. Augusta was of German origin, the daughter of Ferdinand Bachmann and Millida Zigler.
Tony’s maternal grandfather was named Joseph Gaydos. Joseph was from Hungary.
Tony’s maternal grandmother was named Mary Barna. Mary was from Hungary.
Source: Tony’s mother on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Tony’s maternal grandparents were Joseph Gaydos, Sr. and Mary Barna. Joseph and Mary were emigrants from Austria-Hungary, and were likely Slovak.
>Gaydos is from Slovak surname Gajdoš
Slovak -> Rusyn
Gaydos and Barna are Rusyn surnames according to Rusyn websites.
I changed it back to Hungarian, until bablah or someone chimes in.
I did not guess anything, I just did Google researches. Carpatho-Rusyn websites claim Gaydos and Barna are Rusyn or Ruthenian.
A lot of so called Slovak-Americans are actually Rusyns.
On all censuses I’ve seen, they’ve claimed to speak “Magyar”. For that reason, I think they’re Hungarian.
I saw that (Magyar).
Anyway, 1940 U.S. Census lists them as being from Czechoslovakia: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQDN-DFQ
Hungarians have always been a minority in southern Slovakia, so that doesn’t mean much. Especially when there’s also another census where they say that they speak Hungarian using the Hungarian name for Hungarian (not the Slovak or the English translation).
I don’t think Andrew was disagreeing with you, rather just adding where they were listed as being from.
Andrew thought they were Slovak. So I just assumed that the birthplace was another argument for that.
Slovak? His mother’s family was Hungarian.
“Gaydos” appears to be a Slovak surname.
Plenty of Hungarians have non-Hungarian origin last names. And half of those that do have Hungarian last name, have names like Olah, Toth, Racz, Horvath, Nemeth, etc. ”Hungarian last name” is not a very well defined term.
What about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_M._Gaydos ?
Is he related to Tony?
I dunno, but for whatever reason Joseph Gaydos is described as Slovak-American
@andrew
Maybe he is?
He might have Slovak ancestry of some kind, but he is more Hungarian.