Name
Szabó László
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1936-03-24 (90 years old)
Place of Birth
Budapest, Hungary
Biography
László Szabó (born 24 March 1936) is a Hungarian actor, film director and screenwriter. Since 1952, he has appeared in more than 120 films. These include seven films that have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
He was born to Béla Szabó and Margit Gulyás.
Between 1954-1956 he was a student at the Budapest University of Technology , during which he performed in an amateur theater group. He applied to the Theater and Film Academy as an actor, but was not accepted. He left the country in the fall of 1956 and went to Paris .
Like the French new wavers, he also visited Henri Langlois ' "liberty university of film history" at the Cinématheque, watched the film series, met and talked to the directors who presented their films, and while writing in the "cahiers", interviewed Buster Keaton together with Jacques Rivette . He and a friend dropped by on the set of Chabrol (Cousins), from whom he immediately received a one-sentence role. And in his next film, Locked with the Key , a longer one. After that, Godard gave him the role of the interrogator in The Little Soldier , which was followed by other roles in more recent Godard films.
He is the favorite character actor of all the directors of the new wave, everyone has a role for him, they entrust him with strange, boho characters, who always have some disturbing and annoying ulterior motives.
He also took a liking to directing, and made two new-wave French films. Truffaut wrote an appreciative review of the amusing film noir The White Gloves of the Devil . Zig-Zig was played by the new wave's favorite anti-star actress, Bernadette Lafont , and a cool star, Catherine Deneuve . This is also where the self-confidence and sardonic pungency of the new wavers can be felt. Like all actor-directors, he brought out the best in his actresses, skillfully mixing dark humor and tenderness.
In the meantime, from the end of the 1960s he appeared in Hungarian films, and after many character roles, he got the lead role from Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács : Miklós Dibusz, the big snooty, sumák organizer, The nice neighbor .
His first and so far the only Hungarian-French direction was based on Nándor Gion's novel: Sortűz for a Black Buffalo , and his first and so far only Hungarian direction: The Man Who Slept During the Day
Known For
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Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostituti...
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Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named ...
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Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Ma...
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Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolen...
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In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the ...
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Feeling suffocated by a possessive boyfriend, work and suburban life, a young woman starts...
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- 1980 The Last Metro as Lieutnant Bergen
- 1965 Pierrot le Fou as The Political Exile (uncredited)
- 1978 La Barricade du Point-du-Jour as Léo Frankel
- 1962 The Doll as Pascual
- 1998 The Alchemist and the Virgin as Charlie Rosen
- 1979 The Last Judgement But One as A másik nyomozó
- 1982 Godard's Passion as Laszlo
- 1987 The Big O as Kovacs
- 1984 Full Moon in Paris as Painter at Cafe
- 1992 The Sentinel as Pamiat
- 1967 Made in U.S.A as Paul Widmark
- 1975 Male of the Century as The gangster
- 1975 Adoption as Jóska
- 2001 Abandoned as Policeman
- 1994 Cold Water as Le père de Gilles
- 1995 Son of Gascogne as Self
- 1963 Ophélia
- 1988 Mr. Universe as Self
- 1978 Dossier 51 as Sarah Robski's contact
- 1963 Le Petit Soldat as Laszlo
- 1984 Paroles et musique as Alain
- 1976 The Red Poster as Joseph Boczov
- 2002 Special Delivery as Le gardien
- 1999 The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
- 1968 Happening
- 2003 Playing 'In the Company of Men' as Claude Doniol
- 2000 Seaside, Dusk
- 1979 Wrong-doers as Írnok
- 2009 Parc as Balthazar Rutuola
- 1989 Pleure Pas My Love
- 1962 The Punishment
- 1993 The Children Play Russian as Jack Valenti, the Producer
- 2006 Gardens in Autumn
- 1968 The Fatal Shot as Bandi
- 1974 Unruly Heyducks
- 1981 Temporary Paradise as László / Gérard
- 1988 The Unbearable Lightness of Being as Russian Interrogator
- 1997 Modré z neba
- 1998 Place Vendôme as Charlie Rosen
- 1973 Valparaiso, Valparaiso as Lazlo
- 1978 Judith Therpauve as Lepage
- 1985 Favorites of the Moon as Terrorist
- 1967 Weekend as L'Arabe (uncredited)
- 1995 Up, Down, Fragile as Le père de Louise (voice)
- 1992 Rome Roméo as Producer
- 1970 The Confession as Secret Policeman
- 1964 Le Grand Escroc as The Police Inspector
- 1979 Minden szerdán as Gazsi
- 1964 The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers as Police Inspector (segment "Le Grand escroc")
- 1979 Rue du Pied de Grue as Inspecteur Paluche
- 1965 Alphaville as Chief Engineer (uncredited)
- 1989 Tolérance as Bernheim
- 1984 Liberty at Night as Le marionnettiste
- 1997 Mange ta soupe as Father
- 1980 Légitime défense
- 1962 Vivre Sa Vie as Injured Man (uncredited)
- 1979 A Nice Neighbor
- 1987 Accroche-cœur as Friend director
- 1984 Love on the Ground as Virgil (as Laszlo Szabo)
- 2017 Ismael's Ghosts as Henri Bloom
- 2001 On appelle ça… le printemps as Jean
- 1982 Laissé inachevé à Tokyo
- 1988 Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné as Paul Hamburger
- 1973 Salut, voleurs! as Jo
- 1978 The Song of Roland as Duc Naimes / Chevalier hongrois
- 1983 Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising! as Le directeur
- 1969 Do You Know Sunday-Monday? as Szabó mérnök
- 1988 The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau as Marais
- 1967 Le Désir attrapé par la queue
- 2000 Esther Kahn as Ytzhok Kahn
- 1982 The Vulture as Kovács százados
- 1991 The Last Summer
- 1978 Cinématon as N°282
- 1959 À double tour as Vlado
- 1992 Laços de Sangue as Pastelero
- 1959 Katia as (uncredited)
- 1983 Cinématon XXIX as N°282
- 2003 The Outskirts of Alphaville
- 1968 Silence and Cry as Detective
- 2006 Un an as Poussin
- 1968 The Girl as Francia autós (uncredited)
- 1969 Binding Sentiments as Szõlõsgazda
- 1989 Paperback Woman as Bernard
- 1993 Grand bonheur as Jean-Paul
- 1969 Winter Wind as Allied Translator
- 1989 Coupe franche as Dédé
- 1978 Just Like at Home as Laci
- Soon Cinématon n°282 : László Szabó as self
- 1988 Hanussen
- 2001 Léaud l'unique as Narrator (voice)
- 2006 Quand les anges s'en mêlent as M. Jules
- 1980 Girls
- 1974 Dreaming Youth
- 1972 Le Dernier voyage du commandant le Bihan as le lieutenant Le Bihan
- 2002 Like An Airplane as Jean, le taxi
- 1999 Lipstick as Le père
- 1982 Deuil en 24 heures ( 4 episodes ) as Pollock
