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 d…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Pierrot le Fou (1965) — The Political Exile (uncredited)
2. Vivre Sa Vie (1962) — Injured Man (uncredited)
3. Alphaville (1965) — Chief Engineer (uncredited)
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) — Russian Interrogator
5. The Last Metro (1980) — Lieutnant Bergen
6. Weekend (1967) — L'Arabe (uncredited)
7. Ismael's Ghosts (2017) — Henri Bloom
8. Le Petit Soldat (1963) — Laszlo
9. The Confession (1970) — Secret Policeman
10. Full Moon in Paris (1984) — Painter at Cafe
11. Made in U.S.A (1967) — Paul Widmark
12. Godard's Passion (1982) — Laszlo
13. Cold Water (1994) — Le père de Gilles
14. Place Vendôme (1998) — Charlie Rosen
15. Dossier 51 (1978) — Sarah Robski's contact
16. Adoption (1975) — Jóska
17. À double tour (1959) — Vlado
18. The Sentinel (1992) — Pamiat
19. Paroles et musique (1984) — Alain
20. Esther Kahn (2000) — Ytzhok Kahn
21. Katia (1959) — (uncredited)
22. Up, Down, Fragile (1995) — Le père de Louise (voice)
23. Hanussen (1988)
24. Silence and Cry (1968) — Detective
25. Favourites of the Moon (1985) — Terrorist
26. The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964) — Police Inspector (segment "Le Grand escroc")
27. The Girl (1968) — Francia autós (uncredited)
28. Special Delivery (2002) — Le gardien
29. The Vulture (1982) — Kovács százados
30. Love on the Ground (1984) — Virgil (as Laszlo Szabo)
31. Abandoned (2001) — Policeman
32. Ophélia (1963)
33. Liberty at Night (1984) — Le marionnettiste
34. Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising! (1983) — Le directeur
35. Gardens in Autumn (2006)
36. Playing 'In the Company of Men' (2003) — Claude Doniol
37. Laissé inachevé à Tokyo (1982)
38. Binding Sentiments (1969) — Szõlõsgazda
39. Winter Wind (1969) — Allied Translator
40. The Red Poster (1976) — Joseph Boczov

Directed

1. The White Gloves of the Devil (1973) — Director
2. Zig Zig (1975) — Director
3. Volley for a Black Buffalo (1985) — Director
4. The Man Who Slept at Daylight (2003) — Director