László Szabó

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

Accroche-cœur

Friend director

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Russian Interrogator

Le Grand Escroc

The Police Inspector

Male of the Century

The gangster

The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man

Salut, voleurs!

The Doll

Pascual

Pierrot le Fou

The Political Exile (uncredited)

The Girl

Francia autós (uncredited)

Mr. Universe

Katia

(uncredited)

Unruly Heyducks

Valparaiso, Valparaiso

Lazlo

Vivre Sa Vie

Injured Man (uncredited)

Alphaville

Chief Engineer (uncredited)

The Last Metro

Lieutnant Bergen

Full Moon in Paris

Painter at Cafe

A Nice Neighbor

Temporary Paradise

László / Gérard

Le Petit Soldat

Laszlo

The Fatal Shot

Bandi

Paperback Woman

Bernard

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

Police Inspector (segment "Le Grand escroc")

Minden szerdán

Gazsi

The Outskirts of Alphaville

Made in U.S.A

Paul Widmark

The Confession

Secret Policeman

Ophélia

Weekend

L'Arabe (uncredited)

À double tour

Vlado

Ismael's Ghosts

Henri Bloom

The Sentinel

Pamiat

Place Vendôme

Charlie Rosen

Up, Down, Fragile

Le père de Louise (voice)

Playing 'In the Company of Men'

Claude Doniol

Favourites of the Moon

Terrorist

Adoption

Jóska

Love on the Ground

Virgil (as Laszlo Szabo)

Paroles et musique

Alain

Cinématon

N°282

Cold Water

Le père de Gilles

Godard's Passion

Laszlo

Un an

Poussin

Deuil en 24 heures

Pollock

Dossier 51

Sarah Robski's contact

Tolérance

Bernheim

Binding Sentiments

Szõlõsgazda

The Vulture

Kovács százados

Just Like at Home

Laci

Esther Kahn

Ytzhok Kahn

Special Delivery

Le gardien

La Barricade du Point-du-Jour

Léo Frankel

The Song of Roland

Duc Naimes / Chevalier hongrois

Son of Gascogne

Self

Rue du Pied de Grue

Inspecteur Paluche

Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!

Le directeur

Parc

Balthazar Rutuola

The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau

Marais

On appelle ça… le printemps

Jean

Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné

Paul Hamburger

Gardens in Autumn

Wrong-doers

Írnok

Pleure Pas My Love

Silence and Cry

Detective

Judith Therpauve

Lepage

The Big O

Kovacs

Modré z neba

Winter Wind

Allied Translator

The Alchemist and the Virgin