László Szabó
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1936-03-24 (88 years old)
Place of Birth Budapest, Hungary
Also Known As Laslo Szabo
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
Actor
as Henri Bloom
as Balthazar Rutuola
as Poussin
as Claude Doniol
as Le gardien
as Policeman
as Jean
as Ytzhok Kahn
as Charlie Rosen
as Charlie Rosen
as Father
as Le père de Louise (voice)
as Self
as Le père de Gilles
as Le père de Gilles
as Jack Valenti: The producer
as Pastelero
as Pamiat
as The producer
as Kovacs
as Bernheim
as Marais
as Paul Hamburger
as Russian Interrogator
as L'ami metteur en scène
as Terrorist
as Alain
as Virgil (as Laszlo Szabo)
as Le marionnettiste
as Painter at Cafe
as Le directeur
as N°282
as Kovács százados
as Laszlo
as Pollock
as László / Gérard
as Lieutnant Bergen
as Inspecteur Paluche
as Írnok
as A másik nyomozó
as Gazsi
as N°282
as Léo Frankel
as Duc Naimes / Chevalier hongrois
as Le contact de Sarah Robski
as Joseph Boczov
as Jóska
as The gangster
as Jo
as Lazlo
as Secret police man
as Szabó mérnök
as Szõlõsgazda
as Bandi
as Detective
as Francia autós (uncredited)
as L'Arabe (uncredited)
as Paul Widmark
as L'Exilé Politique (uncredited)
as Chief Engineer (uncredited)
as The Police Inspector
as Police Inspector (segment "Le Grand escroc")
as Laszlo
as Injured Man (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Vlado
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Assistant Director
Writer
as Screenplay
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer