László Szabó
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
Lieutnant Bergen
Le Dernier Métro
L'Exilé Politique (uncredited)
Pierrot le fou
Léo Frankel
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
La Poupée
Charlie Rosen
Az alkimista és a szűz
A másik nyomozó
Utolsó előtti ítélet
Laszlo
Passion
Kovacs
L'homme qui a vu l'homme qui a vu l'ours
Painter at Cafe
Les Nuits de la pleine lune
Pamiat
La Sentinelle
Paul Widmark
Made in U.S.A
The gangster
Le Mâle du siècle
Jóska
Örökbefogadás
Policeman
Torzók
Le père de Gilles
L'Eau froide
Self
Le Fils de Gascogne
Ophélia
Mr. Universe
Sarah Robski's contact
Le dossier 51
Laszlo
Le Petit Soldat
Alain
Paroles et musique
Joseph Boczov
L'Affiche rouge
Le gardien
C'est le bouquet !
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
Happening
Claude Doniol
En jouant 'Dans la compagnie des hommes'
Balra a nap nyugszik
Írnok
Rosszemberek
Balthazar Rutuola
Parc
Pleure Pas My Love
La Punition
Jack Valenti: The producer
Les enfants jouent à la Russie
Jardins en automne
Bandi
Fejlövés
Hajdúk
László / Gérard
Ideiglenes paradicsom
Russian Interrogator
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Modré z neba
Charlie Rosen
Place Vendôme
Lazlo
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Judith Therpauve
Terrorist
Les favoris de la lune
L'Arabe (uncredited)
Week End
Le père de Louise (voice)
Haut bas fragile
Producer
Rome Roméo
Secret police man
L'Aveu
The Police Inspector
Le Grand Escroc
Gazsi
Minden szerdán
Police Inspector (segment "Le Grand escroc")
Les Plus Belles Escroqueries du monde
Inspecteur Paluche
Rue du Pied de Grue
Chief Engineer (uncredited)
Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
Bernheim
Tolérance
Le marionnettiste
Liberté, la nuit
Father
Mange ta soupe
Légitime défense
Injured Man (uncredited)
Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux
A kedves szomszéd
Friend director
Accroche-cœur
Virgil (as Laszlo Szabo)
L'Amour par terre
Henri Bloom
Les Fantômes d'Ismaël
Jean
On appelle ça… le printemps
Laissé inachevé à Tokyo
Paul Hamburger
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Jo
Salut, voleurs!
Duc Naimes / Chevalier hongrois
La Chanson de Roland
Le directeur
Debout les crabes, la mer monte !
Szabó mérnök
Ismeri a szandi mandit?
Marais
La Mort mystérieuse de Nina Chéreau
Le Désir attrapé par la queue
Ytzhok Kahn
Esther Kahn
Kovács százados
Dögkeselyű
Az utolsó nyáron
N°282
Cinématon
Vlado
À double tour
Pastelero
Laços de Sangue
(uncredited)
Katia
N°282
Cinématon XXIX
Alphaville, périphéries...
Detective
Csend és kiáltás
Poussin
Un an
Francia autós (uncredited)
Eltávozott nap
Szõlõsgazda
Holdudvar
Le père de Gilles
La Page blanche
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
83
Gender
Male
Birthday
1936-03-24
Place of Birth
Budapest, Hungary
Also Known As
Laslo Szabo