László Szabó
Acting
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
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
as Russian Interrogator
Age 51 (now 90)
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
as Claude Doniol
Age 67 (now 90)
The Children Play Russian
as Jack Valenti: The producer
Age 57 (now 90)
The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
as Marais
Age 52 (now 90)
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
as Paul Hamburger
Age 51 (now 90) The Unbearable Lightness of Being
as Russian Interrogator
Age 51 (now 90)
Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
as Le directeur
Age 47 (now 90)
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
as Léo Frankel
Age 42 (now 90)
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
as Police Inspector (segment "Le Grand escroc")
Age 28 (now 90)
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Also Known As
Laslo Szabo
IMDB
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