Miklós Gábor was a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 actor, most remembered for his roles in films Valahol Európában and Mágnás Miska. He was husband to Éva Ruttkai

Éva Ruttkai

Éva Ruttkai was a Hungarian actress, well known from her work on stage, cinema, and television productions...

, and later Éva Vass.

Life

Miklós Gábor was born 7 April 1919, in Zalaegerszeg. After finishing the Academy of Drama

Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest

The Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest is a university founded in 1865 in Budapest, Hungary.-Notable alumni:*László Kovács *Vilmos Zsigmond*József Mikó*István Szabó*Miklós Jancsó*Lajos Koltai*Gábor Bódy*Dezső Magyar*Béla Tarr...

 in 1941, he joined the Madách Theatre. From 1945-1954 he was the member of the National Theatre, leaving in 1975 for the Katona József theatre in Kecskemét. From 1979 to 1984, he worked in the Népszínház theatre, after he returned to the National Theatre. In 1991, he joined the Független Színpad theatre. He died on 2 July 1998, in Budapest.

Legacy

Miklós Gábor is rememberd as a suggestive, reflective actor, a prominent character of the theatrical world emergingin Hungary after 1950. Besides acting, he also directed from 1970. He won the Kossuth Prize

Kossuth Prize

The Kossuth Prize is a state-sponsored award in Hungary, named after the Hungarian politician and revolutionary Lajos Kossuth. The Prize was established in 1948 by the Hungarian National Assembly, to acknowledge outstanding personal and group achievements in the fields of...

 in 1953.

Filmography

Movies

• Európa nem válaszol (1941)
• Beáta és az ördög (1941)
• Valahol Európában (1947)
• Mágnás Miska (1948)
• Kis Katalin házassága (1950)
• Különös házasság
  Különös házasság
  Különös házasság is a 1951 Hungarian drama film directed by Márton Keleti. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Gyula Benkö - Párdányi Buttler János gróf* Miklós Gábor - Bernáth Zsiga* Lajos Rajczy - Dõry István báró...
  
  (1951)
• Erkel (1952)
• Állami Áruház (1952)
• Budapesti tavasz (1955)
• A 9-es kórterem (1955)
• Az eltüsszentett birodalom (1956)
• Éjfélkor (1957)
• A harangok Rómába mentek (1958)
• Sóbálvány (1958)
• Kard és kocka (1959)
• Három csillag (1960)
• Alba Regia (1961)
• Alázatosan jelentem (1960)
• Kertes házak utcája
  A Cozy Cottage
  A Cozy Cottage is a 1963 Hungarian drama film directed by Tamás Fejér. It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Margit Bara as Panni - Máté felesége* Miklós Gábor as Palotás* György Pálos as Máté József...
  
  (1963)

• Az utolsó vacsora (1962)
• Honfoglalás I-II. (1963)
• Álmodozások kora (1964)
• Másfél millió (1964)
• Miért rosszak a magyar filmek? (1964)
• Ha egyszer húsz év múlva (1964)
• Játék a múzeumban (1965)
• Apa-Egy hit naplója
  Father (1966 film)
  Father is a 1966 Hungarian drama film written and directed by István Szabó. The film is a coming of age story. The main character copes with his childhood loss of his father against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and memories of the Arrow Cross dictatorship.-Cast:* András Bálint...
  
  (1966)
• Kötelék (1967)
• Falak (1968)
• Az idő ablakai (1969)
• N.N. a halál angyala (1970)
• Az ördög cimborája (1973)
• Római karnevál (1974)
• Ki beszél itt szerelemről? (1979)
• Circus Maximus (1980)
• Keserű igazság (1986)
• Szerelő (1992)
• Pá, Drágám! (1994)

Television Films

• Papucs (1959)
• Csiribiri (1964)
• A helység kalapácsa (1965)
• A Hanákné ügy (1969)
• Ősbemutató (1974)
• Vivát Benyovszky! 1-13. (1975)
• Közjáték Vichyben (1981)
• Holtak hallgatása (1982)
• Sértés (1983)
• Villanyvonat (1984)
• Békestratégia (1986)
• Privát kopó (1994)

Sources

• http://mek.niif.hu/02100/02139/html/sz08/18.html - Miklós Gábor in the Hungarian Theatrical Lexicon (György, Székely. Magyar Színházművészeti Lexikon. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1994. ISBN 9789630566353), freely available on mek.oszk.hu

External links

• Miklós Gábor on filmkatalogus.hu