János Görbe born as Görbe János (November 12, 1912,

Jászárokszállás Jászárokszállás is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region o ...

- September 5, 1968,

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) was a prominent Hungarian

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of film and theater. He was the father of actress Nóra Görbe, star of the popular 80's

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, "Linda". In the course of his career, he worked with the most prominent contemporary directors in Hungary, Károly Makk,

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and

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. His most famous films include the

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favorite

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by Jancsó or :hu:Föltámadott a tenger in which he played Hungary's national hero, poet

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who perished in the

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against the

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. His movies ''Ház a sziklák alatt'' ( The House Under the Rocks by Makk, 1959), ''Húsz óra by'' Fábri ( Twenty Hours, 1965), ''Ének a búzamezőkről'' (1947), and ''Emberek a Havason'' ( People on the Alps/ Men on the Mountain, 1942) are also considered landmarks of Hungarian and international cinematic history. Although

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all his life, Görbe recited Petőfi poems to the cheering crowd during the

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against the

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, standing on the balcony of Debrecen Theater. János Görbe was also an acclaimed "Tiborc" in János Katona's Bánk bán. The role of Bánk was played by his

co-star

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. Görbe won a Kossuth Prize in 1951 -

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's most important prize for an artist.

Selected filmography

* ''

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'' (1940) * '' Yellow Rose'' (1941) * '' Silenced Bells'' (1941) * '' Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow'' (1941) * '' People of the Mountains'' (1942) * '' Song of the Cornfields'' (1947) * '' Mattie the Goose-boy'' (1950) * '' Honesty and Glory'' (1951) * '' The Land Is Ours'' (1951) * '' Full Steam Ahead'' (1951) * '' Try and Win'' (1952) * '' The Sea Has Risen'' (1953) * '' Fourteen Lives'' (1954) * '' A Glass of Beer'' (1955) * '' The Bridge of Life'' (1956) * '' Dani'' (1957) * '' The House Under the Rocks'' (1958) * ''

'' (1965) * '' Twenty Hours'' (1965) * '' A Holiday with Piroschka'' (1965) * '' And Then The Guy...'' (1966)

External links

* * Photo with Margit Bara
Görbe's page on Port.hu
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gorbe, Janos 1912 births 1968 deaths People from Jászárokszállás Hungarian male stage actors Hungarian male film actors 20th-century Hungarian male actors