László Szilassy (February 13, 1908 – March 30, 1972) was a Hungarian
film actor
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...
.
[Juhász p.203] Beginning his career on the stage, he emerged as a popular
leading man
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in cinema during the late 1930s and appeared in more than 40 films by the end of the
Second World War
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. He then emigrated to
Brazil
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, also spending many years in
Argentina
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where he continued to act in the theatre but no longer appeared on screen. Like many film figures of the
Miklós Horthy
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era he was unwelcome in postwar
Communist Hungary.
Selected filmography
* ''
Bence Uz'' (1938)
* ''
The Poor Rich
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'' (1938)
* ''
Six Weeks of Happiness'' (1939)
* ''
No Coincidence'' (1939)
* ''
Cserebere'' (1940)
* ''
Seven Plum Trees'' (1940)
* ''
The Bercsenyi Hussars'' (1940)
* ''
Matthew Arranges Things'' (1940)
* ''
The Relative of His Excellency'' (1941)
* ''
The Gyurkovics Boys'' (1941)
* ''
Prince Bob'' (1941)
* ''
Old Waltz'' (1941)
* ''
Time of Trial'' (1942)
* ''
The Talking Robe
''The Talking Robe'' (Hungarian: ''A beszélő köntös'') is a 1942 Hungarian historical fantasy adventure film directed by Géza von Radványi and starring Pál Jávor, Maria von Tasnady and László Szilassy. It was based on Kálmán Mikszà ...
'' (1942)
* ''
Kádár Versus Kerekes'' (1942)
* ''
Borrowed Husbands'' (1942)
* ''
Sirius
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'' (1942)
* ''
Lóránd Fráter'' (1942)
* ''
Annamária'' (1943)
* ''
Wedding March
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'' (1944)
* ''
Loving Hearts'' (1944)
* ''
Knock on the Window'' (1944)
* ''
Muki'' (1944)
* ''
A Lover of the Theatre'' (1944)
* ''
Strange Roads'' (1944)
References
Bibliography
* Juhász, István. ''Kincses magyar filmtár 1931-1944: az eredeti forgatókönyvből 1931 és 1944 között létrejött hazai mozgóképekről''. Kráter, 2007.
* Petrucci, Antonio. ''Twenty Years of Cinema in Venice''. International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art, 1952.
External links
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1908 births
1972 deaths
Hungarian male film actors
Hungarian male stage actors
Hungarian emigrants to Argentina
Hungarian emigrants to Brazil
People from Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County
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