Tamás Major
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 26, 1910
Place of Birth: Újpest, Austria-Hungary [now in Budapest, Hungary]
Known For
Erkel
We have linguists, we have literary men, we have newspapers, actors, musicians, but we have no national opera!", lamented the champions of national revival in the middle of the last century. Hungarian music culture at home is limited to the performance of works by foreign composers. And the public demands Hungarian opera, and such a challenge is not easy to meet. So let's see who is up to the task!
The Corporal and the Others
PFC Molnár decides his WWII services are over, and with serious money hidden in his hand grenades, he heads to an abandoned mansion where he encounters not only the sour butler but a bunch of others who also try to wimp out of their duties.
The Murderer is in the House
A murder has been committed in a block of flats in Pest. Almost all the dwellers of the building behave in a suspicious way at the beginning of the investigation, although it is their everyday lapses they try to hide. In spite of the janitor's unpleasant comments, light is gradually thrown upon the case.
A Strange Marriage
Count János Buttler rushes home to his parents and his beloved for the school holidays. On the way, they stop at Baron Dőry's house, where János is deviously trapped. In the presence of false witnesses, he is forcibly married to Baron Dőry's pregnant daughter. The swearing priest is the father of the unborn child. Although Buttler, his family and friends do their utmost to have the marriage annulled, the Church and the court, fearing for his authority, will not allow it. John Buttler and his lover therefore choose another way to divorce.
There Was Once a Family
This film describes the narrator's childhood, the years before and after the Hungarian Soviet Republic, in a burlesque and fabulous style and with the humour of a child's fantasy.
A Hungarian Nabob
On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati.
Mephisto
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.
Cold Days
Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960s, centers around four men who await trial for their involvement in the massacre of several thousand Jewish and Serbian people of Novi Sad in 1942. Each denies any responsibility, claiming that they were only following orders. The film is significant for its willingness to address the subject of Hungary's role in WWII, which was taboo at the time of the its release.
And Then The Guy...
In this caricature-like film an old film director offers his memories of his career to his former student, now a studio manager, as an idea for a new film. We can see the director in Berlin in the twenties, where his task is to make a film star of Hungarian origin cry out of homesickness.
Colonel Redl
Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
Filmography
as Grandfather
as Oborzil - öreg színész
as Dani's grandpa
as Baron Kubinyi
as Chrysalde
as Dr. Molnár Géza, elmeorvos
as Oskar Kroge, színigazgató
as Igazgató úr
as Négelbaum, festő
as Klimperberger, karmester
as Aban-Khan (voice)
as Maracskó
as Jancsó, öreg színész
as Volpone
as James Morvin
as Kerényi úr
as Clarance hercege
as Jogász
as Kulkai házmester
as The dad
as Herr Reisiger
as házmester
as IX. Pius pápa
as Werbõczy
as Beteg
as Náray
as Kálmán
as Brillantin úr
as Fáraó
as Colonel Grassy
as Griffard
as Albert / Kovács Dezső
as Harangláb
as Képmutogató
as Halmágyi
as Ferenc Kölcsey
as Jesuit