Director János Veiczi saw actor Alfred Müller in theater, playing Phileas Fogg, and offered him the main role.
The building can be seen in the 1956 film Around the World in 80 Days, where it used as the residence of Phileas Fogg (played by David Niven).
Emulating Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg, in 1903 he set the world record for circling the earth using public transportation exclusively, completing his trip in 54 days 9 hours and 42 minutes.
"Fogg" refers to Phileas Fogg, the protagonist in the novel of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.
Mr Fogg derives his name from Phileas Fogg, the main fictional character in the 1872 Jules Verne novel, Around the World in Eighty Days.
Phileas Fogg, the lead figure from Around the World in Eighty Days
The 1980s cartoon series, Around the World with Willy Fog was based on, and expanded on, the original story.
In Jules Verne's 1872 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg intends to take a steamer named Carnatic to travel from Hong Kong to Yokohama, but misses it.
The world's first dirigible airship, property of Mr. Phileas Fogg of London, it combines unexampled luxury, total mobility and an extraordinary array of weapons and gadgets.