Sándor Tompa Explained

Sándor Tompa
Birth Date:	22 December 1903
Birth Place:	Kézdivásárhely, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Death Date:	18 December 1969 (aged 65)
Death Place:	Budapest, Hungary
Occupation:	Actor
Yearsactive:	1938–1969 (film)

Sándor Tompa (1903–1969) was a Hungarian film and stage actor.^{[1] [2]} 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.^[3] 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)

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.

Notes and References

1. Nemeskürty & Szántó p.111
2. Laura p.81
3. Bíró p.605