- Hungarian-born animal trainer, playwright, screenwriter, radio writer (with the Glenn Miller band stationed at Yale University during WWII), and film and television producer.
- Founder of Ivan Tors Productions.
- Brother-in-law of Doris Dowling.
- Foster parent, with wife Constance Dowling, of Alfred Ndwego of Kenya.
- Cousin of James Buxbaum.
- Began as a journalist and playwright in his native Hungary, before emigrating to the U.S. in 1939. He was first signed as a writer by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
- In 1989, the Academy of Underwater Arts & Sciences posthumously awarded Tors a NOGI Award in Arts.
- Tors' studio also filmed Soupy Sales' film debut in Birds Do It.
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