László Kardos Explained

László Kardos
Othername:	Leslie Kardos
Birth Date:	8 October 1905
Birth Place:	Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting Place:	Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
Occupation:	Film director, screenwriter, editor
Yearsactive:	1934–1957

László Kardos (October 8, 1905 – April 11, 1962)^[1] was a Hungarian film director, screenwriter and editor. He spent the latter part of his film career in the United States where he worked under the pseudonym Leslie Kardos.

He was the son of the printing house owner Gábor Kardos (1860–1929)^[2] and Fanni Löbl (1866–1934).^{[3] [4]} His paternal grandparents were Lipót Klein and Rozália Donáth, his maternal grandparents were Mór Löbl and Amália Ebenspanger. His sister was Erzsébet Kardos, a vaudeville actress and the second wife of fellow Hungarian actor S. Z. Sakall.^[5]

His wife was Mária "Lenke" Paszternák, sister of the Hungarian-born American film producer Joe Pasternak.^[6] They were married on 24 March 1935 in Budapest.^[7]

Filmography

As director

• Viereinhalb Musketiere (1935)
• Barátságos arcot kérek (1936)
• Deporteszerelem (1936)
• 120 Kilometres an Hour (1937)
• Dark Streets of Cairo (1940)
• The Strip (1951)
• Small Town Girl (1953)
• The Man Who Turned to Stone (1956)
• The Tijuana Story (1957)

As writer

• No Leave, No Love (1946), directed by Charles Martin
• Dance with Me, Henry (1956), directed by Charles Barton

Notes and References

1. Web site: Kardos László . opac-nevter.pim.hu . hu.
2. Web site: Kardos Gábor halotti bejegyzése a Budapest VI. kerületi polgári halotti akv. 1644/1929. folyószáma alatt . Death registration of Gábor Kardos in the Budapest 6th district's civil mortuary aqv. 1644/1929. under current account . hu.
3. Web site: Kardos Gáborné halotti bejegyzése a Budapest VI. kerületi polgári halotti akv. 935/1934. folyószáma alatt . Death registration of Gáborné Kardos in Budapest 6th district's civil mortuary aqv. 935/1934. under current account . hu.
4. Web site: Kardos Gábor és Löbl Fanni házasságkötési bejegyzése a csáktornyai izraelita hitközség házassági akv. 6/1885. folyószáma alatt . Marriage record of Gábor Kardos and Fanni Löbl in the marriage register of the Israelite community of Csáktornya. 6/1885. under current account . hu.
5. Web site: Kardos Erzsébet és Gerő Jakab (Szőke Szakáll) házasságkötési bejegyzése a Budapest VII. kerületi polgári házassági akv. 1319/1920. folyószáma alatt . Marriage registration of Erzsébet Kardos and Jakab Gerő (Szőke Szakáll) in the Budapest 7th district civil marriage register 1319/1920. under current account . hu.
6. Book: Spivak, Jeffrey . Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley . University Press of Kentucky . 2010 . 9780813126449 . 274 . en.
7. Web site: Házasságkötési bejegyzése a Budapest VII. kerületi polgári házassági akv. 440/1935. folyószáma alatt . Marriage registration in the Budapest 7th district's civil marriage register 440/1935. under current account . hu.