Sándor Tompa (1903–1969) was a Hungarian film and stage actor.Nemeskürty & Szántó p.111Laura p.81 He was born in Transylvania, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire which was ceded to Romania after the First World War and acted in the Hungarian language theatre in Cluj.Bíró p.605 In cinema he was a character actor, appearing often in supporting roles although he played the title character in the 1940 film Gábor Göre Returns.
Selected filmography Bence Uz (1938) No Coincidence (1939) Six Weeks of Happiness (1939) Gábor Göre Returns (1940) Dankó Pista (1940) Duel for Nothing (1940) Unknown Opponent (1940) Silenced Bells (1941) The Marriage Market (1941) The Talking Robe (1942) Lóránd Fráter (1942) Mountain Girl (1942) The Song of Rákóczi (1943) A Lover of the Theatre (1944) Prophet of the Fields (1947) Singing Makes Life Beautiful (1950) A Strange Marriage (1951) The Land Is Ours (1951) Baptism of Fire (1952) Try and Win (1952) Under the City (1953) Young Hearts (1953) Kiskrajcár (1953) The First Swallows (1953) Liliomfi (1954) Dollar Daddy (1956) Leila and Gábor (1956) Dani (1957) Spiral Staircase (1957) A Husband for Susy (1960) I'll Go to the Minister (1962) Drama of the Lark (1963) The Moneymaker (1964) Háry János (1965) The Healing Water (1967)
References
Bibliography Bíró, Sándor. The Nationalities Problem in Transylvania, 1867-1940: A Social History of the Romanian Minority Under Hungarian Rule, 1867-1918 and of the Hungarian Minority Under Romanian Rule, 1918-1940. Social Science Monographs, 1992. Laura, Ernesto G. Tutti i film di Venezia, 1932–1984. La Biennale, Settore cinema e spettacolo televisivo, 1985. Nemeskürty, István & Szántó, Tibor. A Pictorial Guide to the Hungarian Cinema, 1901-1984. Helikon, 1985.
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