Monkey on My Back is a 1957 American biographical film directed by Andre de Toth. It stars Cameron Mitchell as Barney Ross, a real-life world champion boxer and World War II hero. Though heavily fictionalized, the film deals with Ross's addiction to heroin.
Monkey on My Back (film)
Endre Antal Miksa de Toth, known as Andre de Toth, was a Hungarian-American film director, born and raised in Makó, Austria-Hungary.
De Toth in 1967
Producer de Toth, director Ken Russell, and actor Michael Caine in Helsinki during the shooting of Billion Dollar Brain in 1967—on Sofiankatu, near the police station