RIP Gyula Szersen

Gyula Szersen died

The late Gyula Szersen Jaszai Mari and Klari Yolnay Peize-winning actor.

Szinhaz

March 17, 2021

Gyula Szersen was born on November 22, 1940 in Budapest. He graduated from the Theater Academy in 1965, but has been performing at the State Deryne Theater and the Comedy Theater since 1958.

Asked why he chose acting, he answered in an interview: “I have always been attracted to human subjects such as history or Hungarian literature. Even my first great experiences as a student can be linked to the novels, I was already a visual type and while reading I imagined what was described, the landscape, the characters and their appearance.

I played in this medium as a child, I pondered and got excited about Gergely Bornemissza, for example. Similar book experiences provided the basis for acting.”

The actor previously told Origo that he learned a lot professionally from Jozsef Gati at the college. “He taught us to understand the written text from the inside, in full depth, before we could learn how to blow from the outside. He was perfectly right by the time I was done with school, I knew three hundred poems from the outside – and from the inside. Anyway, we had a very strong class. Who everyone knows: Eva Almas, Mari Csomos, Eva Szabo, Sandor Csikos, Jacint Juhasz, Andras Kozak, Tibor Szilagyi (…) I was lucky that year, the obligation for fresh graduates to spend two years in the countryside was abolished. 

Asked who were the most influential people in his life, Gyula Szersen replied: “At the National Theter, Imre Sinkovits was my friend and mentor, with whom we played in many plays. Among others, Lajos Basti, Ferenc Kallai, Ference Bessenyei, Margit Lukacs were my partners. At that time there were still familiar companies: we knew each other’s vibrations, we understood each other from movements. In addition to classic dramas, we also played comedies.

Nowadays, there are three socks, two jerseys hanging on the ladder, and that’s the set. This is no longer my world. This is no longer my world. This is one of the reasons I retired ten years ago. The pieces are turned over, and many writers would be wrong to what their work was transformed into. And you don’t have to update everything: you have to write current pieces for this age, you don’t have to modernize the old ones beyond recognition.”

SZERSEN, Gyula

Born: 11/22/1940, Budapest, Hungary

Died: 3/17/2021, Budapest, Hungary

Gyula Szersen’s western’s voice dubber

Buddy Goes West - 1981 [Hungarian voice of Riccardo Pizzuti]

A Genius – 1981 [[Hungarian voice of Gerard Boucaron]

Man of the East – 1984 [[Hungarian voice of Jean Louis]

Trinity Sees Red – 1991 [Hungarian voice of Maximo Valverde]

Flaming Frontier – 1992 [Hungarian voice of Larry Pennell]

God Forgives… I Don’t – 1992 [[Hungarian voice of Terence Hill]

Killer Kid – 1993 [Hungarian voice of Jan Hendriks]

It Can Be Done Amigo – 1999 [[Hungarian voice of Jack Palance]

A Genius – 2001 [[Hungarian voice of Patrick McGoohan]