- 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.
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