László Szabó
Acting
Born: March 24, 1936 (age 90) · Budapest, Hungary
Highest Rated
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
Pierrot le Fou
1965
Vivre Sa Vie
1962
Alphaville
1965
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988
The Last Metro
1980
Weekend
1967
Ismael's Ghosts
2017
Le Petit Soldat
1963
The Confession
1970
Full Moon in Paris
1984
Made in U.S.A
1967
Godard's Passion
1982
Photos (1)
Movies (83)
The Last Metro
Lieutnant Bergen
Pierrot le Fou
The Political Exile (uncredited)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Russian Interrogator
Vivre Sa Vie
Injured Man (uncredited)
Alphaville
Chief Engineer (uncredited)
Place Vendôme
Charlie Rosen
Minden szerdán
Gazsi
Full Moon in Paris
Painter at Cafe
The Fatal Shot
Bandi
Girls
1980
On appelle ça… le printemps
Jean
Weekend
L'Arabe (uncredited)
Katia
(uncredited)
Unruly Heyducks
1974
The Confession
Secret Policeman
Ismael's Ghosts
Henri Bloom
Favorites of the Moon
Terrorist
The Girl
Francia autós (uncredited)
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Police Inspector (segment "Le Grand escroc")
Made in U.S.A
Paul Widmark
Paroles et musique
Alain
Silence and Cry
Detective
Dossier 51
Sarah Robski's contact
Le Petit Soldat
Laszlo
Godard's Passion
Laszlo
Esther Kahn
Ytzhok Kahn
Up, Down, Fragile
Le père de Louise (voice)
The Sentinel
Pamiat
Coupe franche
Dédé
À double tour
Vlado
Liberty at Night
Le marionnettiste
Winter Wind
Allied Translator
Cold Water
Le père de Gilles
The Song of Roland
Duc Naimes / Chevalier hongrois
Love on the Ground
Virgil (as Laszlo Szabo)
The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
Marais
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1999
Adoption
Jóska
Léaud l'unique
Narrator (voice)
The Doll
Pascual
Laços de Sangue
Pastelero
Cinématon
N°282
Just Like at Home
Laci
Gardens in Autumn
2006
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
Léo Frankel
Hanussen
1988
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
Claude Doniol
Tolérance
Bernheim
Binding Sentiments
Szõlõsgazda
Parc
Balthazar Rutuola
Ophélia
1963
The Red Poster
Joseph Boczov
Un an
Poussin
Special Delivery
Le gardien
Laissé inachevé à Tokyo
1982
Judith Therpauve
Lepage
Mange ta soupe
Father
Légitime défense
1980
Pleure Pas My Love
1989
The Last Summer
1991
Abandoned
Policeman
The Alchemist and the Virgin
Charlie Rosen
The Last Judgement But One
A másik nyomozó
Happening
1968
Male of the Century
The gangster
The Vulture
Kovács százados
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Paul Hamburger
A Nice Neighbor
1979
Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
Le directeur
Temporary Paradise
László / Gérard
Le Grand Escroc
The Police Inspector
The Children Play Russian
Jack Valenti, the Producer
Le Désir attrapé par la queue
1967
Salut, voleurs!
Jo
Accroche-cœur
Friend director
Do You Know Sunday-Monday?
Szabó mérnök
The Big O
Kovacs
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Lazlo
The Punishment
1962
Quand les anges s'en mêlent
M. Jules
Seaside, Dusk
2000
Rome Roméo
Producer
Wrong-doers
Írnok
