Sándor Szabó

Sándor Szabó

Born: April 25, 1915
Died: November 12, 1997
in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)

Movies for Sándor Szabó...

Royal Baths
Title: Royal Baths
Released: September 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Prinzenbad gives us a microcosm of a society dominated by male power plays, wheeling and dealing, corruption, love, and eroticism.
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Passport to Murder
Title: Passport to Murder
Character: Baron de Chaboc
Released: March 7, 1993
Type: Movie
After her divorce is final, socialite Helen Hollander heads to Paris and finds herself caught up in an international terrorist plot in this thriller. When Helen comes into possession of information vital to a terrorist organization, nefarious characters begin tailing her through Paris. A hunky private eye offers to help her, but Helen isn't sure whether he's on the up-and-up.
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Meeting Venus
Title: Meeting Venus
Released: November 15, 1991
Type: Movie
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Amidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love.
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Lily in Love
Title: Lily in Love
Character: Teodor
Released: October 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young Italian.
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The Music of Life
Title: The Music of Life
Character: Kálmán's Father
Released: October 3, 1984
Type: Movie
The Soviet-Hungarian film version of the biography of one of the most talented composers of our time, the classic of the Vienna operetta - Imre Kálmán, known for all his music for operettas "The Csárdás Princess", "Countess Maritza", "The Circus Princess", "The Violet of Montmartre", "Die Bajadere" and many others. The music of Imre Kálmán has no equal in operetta for its festivity, “elegance”, and the refinement of melodics and orchestration.
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Maria's Day
Title: Maria's Day
Character: Szendrey Ignác
Released: March 26, 1984
Type: Movie
The Hungarian Maria's Day is set in that most fateful of years, 1848. The incredible changes and reverses in European politics and culture exert a potent influence on one aristocratic Hungarian family. Losing virtually everything in the way of creature comforts, the family tries to keep up appearances. Eventually every member of the clan falls victim to illness, syphilis and their own headstrong foolishness. The parallels drawn by director Judith Elek between the dissipation of 19th century Hungarian aristocracy and the corruption of Communist ideology in modern times are inescapable.
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Title: A névtelen vár
Character: De Fervlans márki
Released: December 31, 1981
Type: TV
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The Little Fox
Title: The Little Fox
Character: Vahur
Released: December 10, 1981
Type: Movie
A tale about a little fox Vuk from the novel of the famous Hungarian writer István Fekete.
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The Nameless Castle
Title: The Nameless Castle
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The romantic story takes place in the time of Napoleon in Hungary, near Fertő-lake. Count Vavel hides here the French heiress from the revolution and Napoleon.
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Dark Sun
Title: Dark Sun
Character: Uncle James
Released: September 19, 1980
Type: Movie
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.
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The Inheritance
Title: The Inheritance
Character: Komáromi
Released: June 6, 1980
Type: Movie
During the rising of nazism, Sylvia, a rich but sterile woman, needs an heir to inherit her father's money. So she bribes Irene, a Jewish girl, to have a child by her husband.
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Why not Speak of Love?
Title: Why not Speak of Love?
Released: August 13, 1979
Type: Movie
One morning, the caretaker of the student hostel of the University of Horticulture finds Citrom Flóra and Bohus Tamás, by the purest accident, in one bed together. Both are dismissed from university. During the appealing procedures they fall in love with each other.
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Hungarians
Title: Hungarians
Released: June 22, 1978
Type: Movie
A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively well-off. However, they glimpse the treatment accorded to POWs and others who are not so gently treated, and at the conclusion of the year's harvest, they choose to return to Hungary and are quickly swept up in the tides of war. This film is part of a series of films by award-winning, well-respected director Zoltan Fabri who devoted much time and effort chronicling the struggle against fascism.
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Legato
Title: Legato
Character: Galkó Ervin
Released: February 25, 1977
Type: Movie
The university student couple, Andris and Mari, cross Nemesbérc during their summer vacation, to hasten the laying of a memorial stone to the memory of András's martyr father.
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Black Diamond
Title: Black Diamond
Character: Sámuel apát
Released: February 17, 1977
Type: Movie
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A Strange Role
Title: A Strange Role
Character: Wallach doktor
Released: January 6, 1976
Type: Movie
After the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young Hungarian, wanted by the police for political crimes, escapes to just this side of the Austrian border. When he discovers that his escape contact has been shot, he disguises himself as a woman and, posing as a maid, takes refuge at a tuberculosis sanatorium. He lives there as a woman for the entire winter before resuming his journey in the spring.
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Bluebeard
Title: Bluebeard
Character: The Doctor
Released: September 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women.
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Topaz
Title: Topaz
Character: Emile Redon
Released: December 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
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The Sunshine Patriot
Title: The Sunshine Patriot
Character: Janosi
Released: December 16, 1968
Type: Movie
An American spy tries desperately to get out from behind the Iron Curtain with some crucial microfilm with the Communist security police close on his heels.
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Title: The Name of the Game
Character: Professor Zorkin
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
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A Hungarian Nabob
Title: A Hungarian Nabob
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati.
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Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life
Title: Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life
Character: The Russian
Released: March 20, 1961
Type: Movie
Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised to change, most of her strait-laced relatives are up in arms. But Clare Lester, Helen's grandmother, says the girl is free to join the man she loves. On one condition, that she listen to the story of a day in Clare's own life and of a man she tried to change.
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Title: Play of the Week
Character: the Baron
Released: October 12, 1959
Type: TV
This syndicated anthology series staged a different play every week covering all genres, dramas, comedies, musicals, fantasies, mysteries, et al, utilizing some of the best talent appearing on Broadway.
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Title: New York Confidential
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: TV
New York Confidential is a British-American crime drama series that aired from 1958 to 1959. The series aired in syndicated in the United States and was broadcast on London's local ITV station, Associated-Rediffusion, in the UK. It was co-produced by ITC Entertainment, Metropolis Productions, Inc., and Television Programs of America.
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Title: Sea Hunt
Character: Bela Benedek
Released: January 4, 1958
Type: TV
Sea Hunt is an American adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in syndication for decades afterwards. The series originally aired for four seasons, with 155 episodes produced. It stars Lloyd Bridges as ex-Navy frogman Mike Nelson, and was produced by Ivan Tors.
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The Empire Gone With A Sneeze
Title: The Empire Gone With A Sneeze
Character: Hadvezér
Released: March 2, 1956
Type: Movie
The tyrannical king is afraid of his people. He can only find peace if everyone wishes him well when he sneezes. Catchpoles raid the country and give orders what the king wants.
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The bridge of life
Title: The bridge of life
Character: Jánosi, chief engineer
Released: January 19, 1956
Type: Movie
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Hell's Island
Title: Hell's Island
Character: Johann Torbig
Released: May 6, 1955
Type: Movie
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
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Title: December Bride
Released: October 4, 1954
Type: TV
December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.
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Fourteen Lives
Title: Fourteen Lives
Character: Deák
Released: September 2, 1954
Type: Movie
September 1952 in a mine in Northern-Hungary after an explosion water breaks in from the neighbouring shaft and fourteen miners become trapped. The whole country unites to save them.
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Rákóczi's Lieutenant
Title: Rákóczi's Lieutenant
Character: Gróf Starhemberg Maximilan generális
Released: February 4, 1954
Type: Movie
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The Sea has Risen
Title: The Sea has Risen
Character: Ferdinánd Molnár
Released: August 18, 1953
Type: Movie
March 15, 1848; the revolution breaks out in the town of Pest. Yet at café Pilvax, in among he revolutionary youth, there is the informer of the imperial court as well. Hearing the news of the attack led by Jellasics, the inhabitants of the villages pour into the national army, and Hajdú Gyurka also escapes from his landlord. Petőfi is there at the camp of the revolutionaries, raising them to enthusiasm with his poetry.
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Erkel
Title: Erkel
Character: Lázár Horváth Petrichevich
Released: August 20, 1952
Type: Movie
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A Strange Marriage
Title: A Strange Marriage
Character: Sucsinka is a parish priest
Released: August 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Különös házasság is a 1951 Hungarian drama film directed by Márton Keleti. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.
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Mrs. Déry
Title: Mrs. Déry
Character: Déry István
Released: June 6, 1951
Type: Movie
The story, which takes place in the reform era, centres around Mrs. Déry, a legendary actress, who, along with her fellow actors and actresses, travels around the country to become the herald of the Hungarian language, performing in villages and towns up and down the land as strolling players, a woman who is not put off by the prospect of starvation and the dearth of a home to return to and security to live in.
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Janika
Title: Janika
Character: Balla János
Released: May 19, 1949
Type: Movie
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Tüz
Title: Tüz
Released: October 21, 1948
Type: Movie
1h 35min | 21 October 1948 (Hungary)
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Hot Fields
Title: Hot Fields
Released: August 23, 1948
Type: Movie
Avary, himself a hustler, is jealous of his beautiful wife. He eavesdrops to catch Vilma, his wife, having supper with a neighbour on the terrace of their manor-house. He is about to shoot at the woman, but it is him who gets shot to death.
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Machita
Title: Machita
Character: Kovács Gábor, mérnök
Released: April 5, 1944
Type: Movie
A female spy goes to Budapest to steal the plans of an anti-aircraft gun.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Ski Troop Lieutenant (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Once in a Blue Moon
Title: Once in a Blue Moon
Character: Ivan
Released: May 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A group of Russian nobles fleeing the Bolshevik revolution meet up with a traveling circus. To escape their pursuers, they disguise themselves as members fo the circus troupe.