- Despite his family's sad story, he returned to Germany and lived in Berlin and Vienna from 1971.
- Translated works of authors such as Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann, but also wrote screenplays for Hollywood productions of Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Losey and Anatole Litvak.
- Was a hotel trainee in Berlin and Dresden from 1932 to 1935, but had to leave Germany as he was of Jewish descent.
- Second son of Hungarian journalist Cornelius Tabori and his wife Elsa. While his father died in the concentration camp Auschwitz in 1944, his mother and his brother Paul managed to escape the Nazis.
- After working for the BBC in World War II, he went to the US in 1947.
- Stepfather of Kristoffer Tabori, who took his surname professionally.
- Frequently works with Gert Voss's wife, Ursula Voss.
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