
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
Acting (77 movies)

The Last Metro
1980

Pierrot le Fou
1965

La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
1978

The Doll
1962

The Alchemist and the Virgin
1998

The Last Judgement But One
1979

Godard's Passion
1982

Full Moon in Paris
1984

The Sentinel
1992

Made in U.S.A
1967

Male of the Century
1975

Adoption
1975

Abandoned
2001

Cold Water
1994

Son of Gascogne
1995

Ophélia
1963

Dossier 51
1978

Le petit soldat
1963

Paroles et musique
1984

The Red Poster
1976

Special Delivery
2002

The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1999

Happening
1968

Playing 'In the Company of Men'
2003

Seaside, Dusk
2000

Wrong-doers
1979

Parc
2009

Pleure Pas My Love
1989

The Punishment
1962

The Children Play Russian
1993

Gardens in Autumn
2006

The Fatal Shot
1968

Temporary Paradise
1981

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988

Place Vendôme
1998

Valparaiso, Valparaiso
1973

Judith Therpauve
1978

Favourites of the Moon
1985

Weekend
1967

Up, Down, Fragile
1995

Rome Roméo
1992

The Confession
1970

Le Grand Escroc
1964

Minden szerdán
1979

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
1964

Alphaville
1965

Tolérance
1989

Liberty at Night
1984

Mange ta soupe
1997

Légitime défense
1980

Vivre Sa Vie
1962

A Nice Neighbor
1979

Accroche-cœur
1987

Love on the Ground
1984

Ismael's Ghosts
2017

On appelle ça… le printemps
2001

Laissé inachevé à Tokyo
1982

Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
1988

Salut, voleurs!
1973

The Song of Roland
1978

Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
1983

Do You Know Sunday-Monday?
1969

The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
1988

Le Désir attrapé par la queue
1967

Esther Kahn
2000

The Vulture
1982

The Last Summer
1991

Cinématon
1978

À double tour
1959

Laços de Sangue
1992

Katia
1959

Silence and Cry
1968

Un an
2006

The Girl
1968

Binding Sentiments
1969

La Page blanche
1994

Winter Wind
1969
Directing (4 movies)
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| The White Gloves of the Devil | 1973 | Writer | 
| Zig Zig | 1975 | Writer | 
| Point mort | 1984 | Writer | 
| Volley for a Black Buffalo | 1985 | Writer | 
| The Man Who Slept at Daylight | 2003 | Screenplay | 



