István Bujtor (5 May 1942 – 25 September 2009), born István Frenreisz, was a Hungarian actor, director, producer and screenplay writer. He starred in the TV mini-series

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by Jules Verne as ''Mathias Sandorf'' in 1979.

Biography

Bujtor started his acting career in 1964, and played in more than a hundred Hungarian films. He won the

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Award in 1979. In the early 1980s he became known as the Hungarian voice of

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. Based on his real life similarity with Spencer, later a series of Hungarian comedies were created in the Bud Spencer-

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genre, in which Bujtor played hard-hitting detective ''Csöpi Ötvös'' partnered with fellow Hungarian actor

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. In January 2008 he became the director of the ''Petőfi Theatre'' in

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Personal

He was born in Budapest in 1942, as a child of a prestigious family; his grandfather was the legendary restaurant owner and gourmet Károly Gundel, and his siblings were the popular Hungarian actor

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(half-brother) and the composer and bass guitarist

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. Bujtor graduated as an economist in 1965. He was passionate

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winning six Hungarian championships with his yacht ''Rabonbán'', built in 1936.

Death

Bujtor was hospitalized in Veszprém on 31 July 2009, where he fell into a coma. After several weeks of treatment his health status seemingly stabilized and he was transferred to Budapest for rehabilitation. However, he died there on 25 September 2009. The circumstances of his death are currently undisclosed but he was reportedly diagnosed with

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, kidney failure and septic shock.Meghalt Bujtor István
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Selected filmography

Notes

References

External links

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Filmography on port.hu
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bujtor, Istvan 1942 births 2009 deaths Hungarian male film actors Hungarian film directors Hungarian film producers Hungarian male screenwriters Male actors from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian screenwriters