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

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 1995Son of Gascogne — Self
• 1988Mr. Universe — Self
• Cinématon n°282 : László Szabó — self