László Szabó

Born: 1936-03-24

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


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Alphaville

as Chief Engineer (uncredited)
Released: 1965-05-05

Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent...

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

as Russian Interrogator
Released: 1988-02-05

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named...

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The Last Metro

as Lieutnant Bergen
Released: 1980-09-17

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the...

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Pierrot le Fou

as L'Exilé Politique (uncredited)
Released: 1965-11-05

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with...

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Vivre Sa Vie

as Injured Man (uncredited)
Released: 1962-09-20

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

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Le Petit Soldat

as Laszlo
Released: 1963-01-25

During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who...

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Weekend

as L'Arabe (uncredited)
Released: 1967-12-29

A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of...

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Full Moon in Paris

as Painter at Cafe
Released: 1984-08-29

Louise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a...

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Made in U.S.A

as Paul Widmark
Released: 1967-01-27

Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and...

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Ismael's Ghosts

as Henri Bloom
Released: 2017-05-17

Just as the disheveled and alcoholic filmmaker Ismaël embarks on a difficult new film project,...

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Dossier 51

as Sarah Robski's contact
Released: 1978-08-30

A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control,...

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The Confession

as Secret police man
Released: 1970-04-29

The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed,...

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Godard's Passion

as Laszlo
Released: 1982-05-26

While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young...

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À double tour

as Vlado
Released: 1959-12-04

The mistress of the wealthy Henri Marcoux is murdered and the family accuses the milkman of...

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Cold Water

as Le père de Gilles
Released: 1994-07-06

An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers...

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Place Vendôme

as Charlie Rosen
Released: 1998-10-07

The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions...

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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

as Police Inspector (segment "Le Grand escroc")
Released: 1964-08-14

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five...

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Paroles et musique

as Alain
Released: 1984-12-19

When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds...

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Adoption

as Jóska
Released: 1975-09-25

When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own,...

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Esther Kahn

as Ytzhok Kahn
Released: 2000-10-04

A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.

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Katia

as (uncredited)
Released: 1959-12-22

Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send...

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The Sentinel

as Pamiat
Released: 1992-05-20

A medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a...

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Silence and Cry

as Detective
Released: 1968-06-12

Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every...

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Favourites of the Moon

as Terrorist
Released: 1985-02-06

A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and...

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The Girl

as Francia autós (uncredited)
Released: 1968-05-16

A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this interesting examination of how...

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Up, Down, Fragile

as Le père de Louise (voice)
Released: 1995-04-12

The film will tell what happens to a group of characters, precisely between July 14 and August...

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Special Delivery

as Le gardien
Released: 2002-12-11

An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël...

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Son of Gascogne

as Self
Released: 1995-02-18

You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars,...

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The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau

as Marais
Released: 1988-08-24

A woman accused of murder escapes an asylum and her psychiatrist tries to find her.

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Love on the Ground

as Virgil (as Laszlo Szabo)
Released: 1984-10-17

A playwright offers two actress friends the chance to appear in his new, unfinished play, which...

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Mange ta soupe

as Father
Released: 1997-11-12

A young man returns to the family home to face a childhood trauma: his brother's suicide, but...

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Cinématon

as N°282
Released: 1978-12-20

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the...

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Liberty at Night

as Le marionnettiste
Released: 1984-10-03

In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.

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Tolérance

as Bernheim
Released: 1989-10-20

An English hermit Rupert Everett) has somehow been brought to France in the period following the...

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Laissé inachevé à Tokyo

as uncredited
Released: 1982-08-13

A young woman travels to Japan to write a novel.

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Abandoned

as Policeman
Released: 2001-08-28

Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his...

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The Song of Roland

as Duc Naimes / Chevalier hongrois
Released: 1978-10-04

Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the...

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Valparaiso, Valparaiso

as Lazlo
Released: 1973-03-31

Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time...

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L'Affiche rouge

as Joseph Boczov
Released: 1976-11-10

A company wants to make a play about Mont Valerien resistant fighters who were shot by the Nazis...

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The Vulture

as Kovács százados
Released: 1982-07-29

Two old women who happen to be pickpockets stole money from Simon, the taxi driver. The police...

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Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!

as Le directeur
Released: 1983-08-17

Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the...

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The Alchemist and the Virgin

as Charlie Rosen
Released: 1998-08-20

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Judith Therpauve

as uncredited
Released: 1978-10-06

A former hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance is approached by old comrades to lead a...

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Ophélia

as uncredited
Released: 1963-02-06

A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.

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Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné

as Paul Hamburger
Released: 1988-02-26

This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew...

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Wrong-doers

as Írnok
Released: 1979-08-02

The second in command of a group of highwaymen, the only ones left of Hungary's freedom fighters...

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Gardens in Autumn

as uncredited
Released: 2006-09-06

When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty...

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The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man

as uncredited
Released: 1999-01-01

This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with...

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Male of the Century

as The gangster
Released: 1975-03-12

The wife of an extremely jealous merchant is held hostage by a bank robber.

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Playing 'In the Company of Men'

as Claude Doniol
Released: 2003-05-15

A troupe of actors rehearse a play. In the play-within-the-film, an ambitious son and his...

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The Doll

as uncredited
Released: 1962-11-07

An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The...

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On appelle ça… le printemps

as Jean
Released: 2001-03-21

Fanfan leaves his friend Charles and thinks he can be accommodated by his friend, Joss. However,...

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Salut, voleurs!

as Jo
Released: 1973-06-21

In this French crime caper film, a young misfit who has grown tired of his job as a bank teller...

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Temporary Paradise

as László / Gérard
Released: 1981-09-24

1943. French POWs escape through Hungary towards the Balkan. Jacques and Gérard are caught and...

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The Children Play Russian

as Jack Valenti: The producer
Released: 1993-08-08

A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the...

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The Last Judgement But One

as A másik nyomozó
Released: 1979-04-17

The man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a...

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Parc

as Balthazar Rutuola
Released: 2009-01-14

Georges Nail lives in a new suburb. He's married, loves his wife, son and dog. Paul Hammer is...

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Rome Roméo

as Producer
Released: 1992-04-22

David, 50 years old, returns to Rome for an appointment made 20 years earlier. The passion that...

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La Page blanche

as Le père de Gilles
Released: 1994-11-11

1972. Gilles and Christine are a young couple who is struggling with family difficulties and...

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Le Grand Escroc

as The Police Inspector
Released: 1964-08-14

Patricia Leacock, reporter for an american television, is in Morocco on the trail of a...

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The Punishment

as uncredited
Released: 1962-03-10

An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets...

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Pleure Pas My Love

as uncredited
Released: 1989-01-18

After the suicide of his actress-mother, a young man announces his identity to his father, who...

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The Fatal Shot

as Bandi
Released: 1968-10-02

Laci and the divorced Klári decide to commit suicide, since neither's parents give them shelter,...

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Do You Know Sunday-Monday?

as Szabó mérnök
Released: 1969-08-14

Juli is a 17-year-old student who takes a summer job in a local chemical factory. She is...

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Le Désir attrapé par la queue

as uncredited
Released: 1967-07-24

"Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is...

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La Barricade du Point-du-Jour

as Léo Frankel
Released: 1978-11-12

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Binding Sentiments

as Szõlõsgazda
Released: 1969-01-09

Edit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow...

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Légitime défense

as uncredited
Released: 1980-07-18

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Un an

as Poussin
Released: 2006-06-28

Victoire wakes up one morning to find the body of her partner, Felix, lying on the floor of her...

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Happening

as uncredited
Released: 1968-10-18

At a reception, the guests amuse themselves with cruel games.

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The Last Summer

as uncredited
Released: 1991-10-04

Imre Horváth and his friends gather to celebrate his wife's birthday. They are confused because...

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Laços de Sangue

as Pastelero
Released: 1992-10-01

Lina and Mariana run from an orphanage in Porto towards the south, in search of Lina's father....

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Minden szerdán

as Gazsi
Released: 1979-01-01

Stephen, living in a troubled family, breaks into a grocery store and wreaks vandalism. He is...

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Accroche-cœur

as Friend director
Released: 1987-11-25

Leo just broke up with his wife, and the handsome architect wants to enjoy his sadness at this...

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Seaside, Dusk

as uncredited
Released: 2000-01-01

Alex gets a well-paid job from his friend Zsolt: he must smuggle drugs from Germany. Alex wants...

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A Nice Neighbor

as uncredited
Released: 1979-03-26

Hungarian-born Laszlo Szabo returned to his native country to play the part of Dibusz in this...

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Deuil en 24 heures

as Pollock
First aired: 1982-10-09

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