Gyula Szabó (15 July 1930 – 4 April 2014) was a Hungarian

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

. He won two

Mari Jászai Mari Jászai (born Mária Krippel; 24 February 1850, Ászár – 5 October 1926, Budapest) was a Hungarian actress. Life Mari Jászai 24 February 1850 in Ászár, Komárom county, as a daughter of a carpenter. She worked from age 10 as a maid ...

Prizes. He appeared in forty

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s between 1953 and 2002. He is best known for appearing in movies such as ''

Ifjú szívvel ''Young Hearts'' (Hungarian: ''Ifjú szívvel'', literally "young hearts") is a 1953 Hungarian comedy film directed by Márton Keleti and starring Gyula Gózon, Sándor Pécsi and Imre Soós.Nemes p.174 Cast * Gyula Gózon as Dani nagypapa * Sá ...

'' (1953), ''

Kiskrajcár ''Kiskrajcár'' is a 1953 Hungarian comedy film directed by Márton Keleti. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Ági Mészáros - Garas Juli * Ádám Szirtes - Orbán * Erzsi Pápai - Anna (as Pápay Erzsi) * Imre Soós ...

'' (1953), '' Egy pikoló világos'' (1955), '' A tizedes meg a többiek'' (1965) and '' Defekt'' (1977). He was the Hungarian voice of the eponymous American television character

Columbo ''Columbo'' () is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC f ...

and the narrator of the ''

Hungarian Folktales ''Hungarian Folk TalesAz egyes epizódok főcíme, és stáblistája alapján.'' ( hu, Magyar népmesék) is a Hungarian animated series and one of the first and biggest successes of Pannonia Film Studio, based on studio head Ferenc Mikulás' ori ...

'' animated television series. He was born in

Kunszentmárton Kunszentmárton is a small town of the county of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, central Hungary. Geography Körös River crosses the town from the north-east to the south. Twin towns – sister cities Kunszentmárton is twinned with: * Teterow Tet ...

Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok ( hu, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok megye, ) is the name of an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus or ''megye'') in Hungary. It lies in central Hungary and shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest ...

. Szabó died on 4 April 2014 at the age of 83.

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* 1930 births 2014 deaths Hungarian male film actors Hungarian male stage actors Hungarian male television actors People from Kunszentmárton {{Hungary-actor-stub