Cast

László Szabó

Acting

Cast

László Szabó

Known for

Acting

Born

1936-03-24

From

Budapest, Hungary

Also known as Laslo Szabo

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

László Szabó

László Szabó

Biography

On appelle ça… le printemps

Pierrot le Fou

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Minden szerdán

Alphaville

The Last Metro

Vivre Sa Vie

Unruly Heyducks

Katia

Weekend

The Fatal Shot

Paroles et musique

The Girl

Mr. Universe

Just Like at Home

Full Moon in Paris

Le Petit Soldat

The Outskirts of Alphaville

Ismael's Ghosts

Coupe franche

Made in U.S.A

The Sentinel

Esther Kahn

Girls

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

Cinématon

À double tour

Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné

Place Vendôme

The Song of Roland

Gardens in Autumn

Godard's Passion

Favourites of the Moon

Rue du Pied de Grue

Léaud l'unique

Love on the Ground

Dossier 51

Playing 'In the Company of Men'

Up, Down, Fragile

Hanussen

La Barricade du Point-du-Jour

Cold Water

Special Delivery

Cinématon n°282 : László Szabó

Son of Gascogne

Adoption

Ophélia

The Children Play Russian

Parc

The Doll

Silence and Cry

Quand les anges s'en mêlent

Abandoned

The Confession

The Red Poster

The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man

The Vulture

Liberty at Night

Modré z neba

Valparaiso, Valparaiso

Temporary Paradise

Judith Therpauve

Accroche-cœur

Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!

Winter Wind

Pleure Pas My Love

Wrong-doers

Laissé inachevé à Tokyo

Le Grand Escroc

Male of the Century

Binding Sentiments

A Nice Neighbor

Laços de Sangue

Légitime défense

Seaside, Dusk

The Alchemist and the Virgin

Grand bonheur