Endre Hules is an actor, director, writer, and acting teacher known for ''
Apollo 13
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'', ''
The Maiden Danced to Death'', ''
For All Mankind'', and ''
FBI: International''. ''The Maiden Danced to Death'' was presented at the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art. and entered into its collection and Hules was invited to festival juries and panels.
Early Life
Hules was born and raised in Hungary, then moved subsequently to Paris, France, New York, Massachusetts and Los Angeles. He studied music and acting at the famous
Cellar Theatre in Budapest, and started writing plays, composing and directing there at the age of 17. He frequently visited
Jerzy Grotowski
Jerzy Marian Grotowski (; 11 August 1933 – 14 January 1999) was a Polish theatre director and theorist whose innovative approaches to acting, training and theatrical production have significantly influenced theatre today. He is considered one ...
's Laboratory Theatre in Poland and attended
Eugenio Barba
Eugenio Barba (born 29 October 1936) is an Italian author and theatre director based in Denmark. He is the founder of the Odin Theatre and the International School of Theatre Anthropology, both located in Holstebro, Denmark.
Biography
Barba w ...
's International School of Theatrical Anthropology in Germany. He earned an MFA from the prestigious
University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest as a director. He was later a Producing Fellow at the
American Film Institute
The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the History of cinema in the United States, motion picture arts in the United States. AFI is supported by private fu ...
in Los Angeles.
Career
Hules started acting, writing, and directing in the theatre. Among other places, he directed at the Cellar Theatre, the National Theatres of Pécs and Szeged,
La Mama ETC
in New York, the Theatre Center in Los Angeles, where he was invited by the Shakespeare World Congress to direct ''
Measure for Measure
''Measure for Measure'' is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604 and first performed in 1604. It was published in the First Folio of 1623.
The play centers on the despotic and puritan Angelo (Measure for ...
''. His theater repertoire included many classical plays by Shakespeare, Moliere, Goldoni, Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, as well as contemporary plays from Pinter, Orton, Stoppard and Ödön von Horvath, as well as musicals like The Cabaret and experimental projects. His work was reviewed by The New York Times
, the Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter,
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He established an acting studio at the National Theatre in Szeged, then he was on the faculty of Espace Acteur, Paris, New York University, Smith College, Bard College, the University of Southern California and taught a number of workshops in Europe, North America and Japan.
After moving to Los Angeles, Hules began acting in film and television productions. He worked repeatedly with directors Ron Howard and David Fincher
Filmography
Acting
Theatre
References
External Links
Disarray interview with Endre Hules
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Hungarian male film actors
Hungarian male television actors
Hungarian film directors
Hungarian screenwriters
Hungarian emigrants to the United States
American film actors
American television actors
American dramatists and playwrights
Living people