Cast & creator
László Szabó
Best known for The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Vivre Sa Vie, Pierrot le Fou
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
Also known as: Laslo Szabo
107
film credits
1
television credits
96
1959–2017 · acting roles
6.4
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (108)
Showing 108 of 108 credits
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Russian Interrogator
1988
Vivre Sa Vie
Injured Man (uncredited)
1962
Pierrot le Fou
The Political Exile (uncredited)
1965
The Last Metro
Lieutnant Bergen
1980
Alphaville
Chief Engineer (uncredited)
1965
Full Moon in Paris
Painter at Cafe
1984
Weekend
L'Arabe (uncredited)
1967
Girls
1980
Minden szerdán
Gazsi
1979
Dreaming Youth
1974
Ismael's Ghosts
Henri Bloom
2017
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Police Inspector (segment "Le Grand escroc")
1964
Cinématon
N°282
1978
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Lazlo
1973
Place Vendôme
Charlie Rosen
1998
The Confession
Secret Policeman
1970
Love on the Ground
Virgil (as Laszlo Szabo)
1984
Katia
(uncredited)
1959
À double tour
Vlado
1959
Unruly Heyducks
1974
Favorites of the Moon
Terrorist
1985
Le Petit Soldat
Laszlo
1963
Mr. Universe
Self
1988
Deuil en 24 heures
Pollock
1982
Dossier 51
Sarah Robski's contact
1978
The Fatal Shot
Bandi
1968
Made in U.S.A
Paul Widmark
1967
On appelle ça… le printemps
Jean
2001
Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
Le directeur
1983
Volley for a Black Buffalo
Director
1985Volley for a Black Buffalo
Writer
1985
Up, Down, Fragile
Le père de Louise (voice)
1995
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
Claude Doniol
2003
Esther Kahn
Ytzhok Kahn
2000
Laissé inachevé à Tokyo
1982
The Song of Roland
Duc Naimes / Chevalier hongrois
1978
Quand les anges s'en mêlent
M. Jules
2006
Son of Gascogne
Self
1995Rue du Pied de Grue
Inspecteur Paluche
1979
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
Léo Frankel
1978
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1999Le Dernier voyage du commandant le Bihan
le lieutenant Le Bihan
1972Le Dernier voyage du commandant le Bihan
Director
1972Le Dernier voyage du commandant le Bihan
Writer
1972
The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
Marais
1988
The Sentinel
Pamiat
1992
Godard's Passion
Laszlo
1982
Special Delivery
Le gardien
2002
The Girl
Francia autós (uncredited)
1968
Male of the Century
The gangster
1975
Paroles et musique
Alain
1984
The White Gloves of the Devil
Writer
1973The White Gloves of the Devil
Director
1973
Coupe franche
Dédé
1989The Outskirts of Alphaville
2003
Like An Airplane
Jean, le taxi
2002
Silence and Cry
Detective
1968
Hanussen
1988
Judith Therpauve
Lepage
1978
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Paul Hamburger
1988
The Children Play Russian
Jack Valenti, the Producer
1993
Cold Water
Le père de Gilles
1994
Pleure Pas My Love
1989
The Alchemist and the Virgin
Charlie Rosen
1998
Just Like at Home
Laci
1978
Le Désir attrapé par la queue
1967
The Man Who Slept at Daylight
Screenplay
2003The Man Who Slept at Daylight
Director
2003
The Big O
Kovacs
1987
Gardens in Autumn
2006
Adoption
Jóska
1975
Do You Know Sunday-Monday?
Szabó mérnök
1969
Winter Wind
Allied Translator
1969Winter Wind
Assistant Director
1969
The Red Poster
Joseph Boczov
1976Cinématon n°282 : László Szabó
self
Tolérance
Bernheim
1989
Ophélia
1963
Un an
Poussin
2006
Zig Zig
Director
1975Zig Zig
Writer
1975
Léaud l'unique
Narrator (voice)
2001
The Doll
Pascual
1962
Temporary Paradise
László / Gérard
1981
The Vulture
Kovács százados
1982
Liberty at Night
Le marionnettiste
1984
Mange ta soupe
Father
1997
Le Grand Escroc
The Police Inspector
1964
Seaside, Dusk
2000
Abandoned
Policeman
2001
Binding Sentiments
Szõlõsgazda
1969
Wrong-doers
Írnok
1979
Légitime défense
1980
Accroche-cœur
Friend director
1987
Parc
Balthazar Rutuola
2009Grand bonheur
Jean-Paul
1993
The Punishment
1962
The Last Judgement But One
A másik nyomozó
1979
Laços de Sangue
Pastelero
1992Paperback Woman
Bernard
1989
Salut, voleurs!
Jo
1973
The Last Summer
1991
Happening
1968
Rome Roméo
Producer
1992
Point mort
Writer
1984
A Nice Neighbor
1979Modré z neba
1997Cinématon XXIX
N°282
1983