{{Short description|Hungarian actor and director}} {{Infobox person | name = Endre Hules | image = Endre Hules Headshot ZAW 3724.jpg | alt = Headshot of Endre Hules | caption = Endre Hules, actor and filmmaker (2025) | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|6|26}} | birth_place = Budapest, Hungary | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = {{hlist|Director|producer|screenwriter|actor}} | years_active = | known_for = ''The Maiden Danced to Death'' | notable_works = }}
'''Endre Hules''' (born June 26, 1954) is an actor, director, writer, and acting teacher known for ''Apollo 13'', ''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.<ref>{{cite press release | url=https://www.nga.gov/press/2013/films-summer-2013.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919024953/https://www.nga.gov/press/2013/films-summer-2013.html |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |url-status=dead |publisher=National Gallery of Art |date=July 3, 2013 | title=Summer Films 2013 | access-date=29 April 2025 }}</ref> and entered into its collection and Hules was invited to festival juries and panels.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gyula Gazdag and Cold War Hungarian Cinema |url=https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/pdfs/cold_war_program.pdf |website=The Getty Research Institute |type=Event program}}</ref>
==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's Laboratory Theatre in Poland and attended Eugenio Barba'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 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,<ref name="szinhaz_dream">{{cite web |last1=Géza |first1=Hegedüs |title=Calderón Szegeden |url=https://epa.oszk.hu/03000/03040/00160/pdf/EPA03040_szinhaz_1980_06_024-027.pdf |website=Színház.hu |language=hu}}</ref> La Mama ETC<ref name="la_mama">{{cite web | url=https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/jose_triana/imagenes_puesta_en_escena/imagen/imagenes_puesta_en_escena_07_night_of_assassins_1981_la_mama_miami_direccion_hules_programa/ | title=The Night of Assassins la MaMa E. T. C. (New York, 1981) Cartel - José Triana }}</ref><ref name="la_mama2">{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/31/theater/theater-2-la-mama-revivals.html | title=Theater: 2 la Mama Revivals | work=The New York Times | date=31 October 1981 | last1=Gussow | first1=Mel }}</ref> in New York, the Theatre Center in Los Angeles, where he was invited by the Shakespeare World Congress to direct ''Measure for Measure''. 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,<ref name="la_mama2" /><ref name="song_lark">{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/02/arts/television-review-a-singer-from-the-prairie-wows-the-germans.html | title=TELEVISION REVIEW; A Singer from the Prairie Wows the Germans | work=The New York Times | date=2 May 2001 | last1=James | first1=Caryn }}</ref> the Los Angeles Times,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-08-ca-1425-story.html | title=STAGE REVIEWS : Troupe's Not up to Fighting Trojan War : Rancho Santiago College's Professional Actors Conservatory Theatre does little more than pose in 'Troilus and Cressida.' | website=Los Angeles Times | date=8 May 1991 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-04-12-ca-57561-story.html | title=THEATER REVIEWS : A 'Measure' by Oasis to Please Purists | website=Los Angeles Times | date=12 April 1996 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-sep-22-ca-24799-story.html | title=Uneven Update of 'Measure 4 Measure' | website=Los Angeles Times | date=22 September 2000 }}</ref> The Hollywood Reporter,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/torn-flag-159408/ | title=Torn from the Flag | website=The Hollywood Reporter | date=31 October 2007 }}</ref> Színház<ref>[http://epa.niif.hu/03000/03040/00151/pdf/EPA03040_szinhaz_1979_09_019-021.pdf A pályakezdés nehézsége] Színház.hu</ref><ref name="szinhaz_hazug">[https://www.epa.hu/03000/03040/00132/pdf/EPA03040_szinhaz_1978_02.pdf Színház]</ref><ref>[http://szinhaz.net/wp-content/uploads/pdf/1976_12.pdf Színház]</ref> and numerous other publications. 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,{{citation needed|date=June 2025}} 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.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://tv.apple.com/gb/person/endre-hules/umc.cpc.482i9o1fq9fg2gu2a3wvkwexq | title=Endre Hules Films and Shows – Apple TV (UK) }}</ref> He sold over a dozen screenplays, two of which he also directed and co-produced: ''[http://Torn%20from%20the%20Flag:%20A%20Film%20by%20Klaudia%20Kovacs Torn From the Flag: a Film by Klaudia Kovacs]'' and ''The Maiden Danced to Death''. His films were invited to close to a hundred festivals and won numerous awards, among them three European Media and two Cine Golden Eagle Awards. He is also the recipient of a SAG Award for acting and an Insight Award for directing.
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" ! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes !! Distributor |- | 1980 || ''Life is a Dream'' || director/adaptor || TV adaptation || Hungarian Television |- | 1987 || ''Instant Death'' || writer/director/producer || short || IDS Prods |- | rowspan="2" | 1991 || ''Danielle'' || writer/producer || short || American Film Inst. |- | ''Long Walk into Forever'' || writer/producer || short || American Film Inst. |- | 1995 || ''Demons'' || writer/director/producer || short || Leap of Faith Productions |- | 2007 || ''[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468559/ Torn from the Flag: a Film by Klaudia Kovacs]'' || writer/director/producer || Feature documentary || Homage to 1956, LLC |- | 2009 || ''Prima, Primavera'' || writer || feature || UK-Bulgarian-Dutch-Hungarian co-production |- | 2011 || ''The Maiden Danced to Death'' || writer/director/producer || feature || Canadian-Hungarian-Slovenian coproduction |}
==Acting== {| class="wikitable" ! Year !! Film !! Role !! Notes |- | rowspan="2" | 1989 || ''This Ain't Bebop'' || The Poet || |- | ''China Beach'' || Younger Male Dinner Guest || Season 3, Episode 8: "China Men" |- | rowspan="2" | 1990 || ''Mancuso, FBI'' || Alex || Season 1, Episode 11: "Shall We Gdansk?" |- | ''Problem Child'' || Additional Voices || |- | rowspan="2" | 1991 || ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' || Waiter || Season 1, Episodes 764, 801, 822, 874, 875, 981 |- | ''The Antagonists'' || Professor || Season 1, Episode 7: "Unnatural Acts" |- | rowspan="2" | 1992 || ''In Living Color'' || Foreign Minister || Season 3, Episode 17: "George Bush Meets Tommy Wu" |- | ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' || Cabbie || Season 3, Episode 3: "Too Little, Too Late/Paris 75001" |- | rowspan="4" | 1993 || ''Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman'' || Immigrant || Season 1, Episode 3: "Law of the Land" |- | ''Wind in the Wire'' || Lionel || |- | ''Melrose Place'' || Owner || Season 2, Episode 7: "Flirting with Disaster" |- | ''The Waiter'' || Stanislowski || |- | rowspan="6" | 1995 || ''My Antonia'' || Russian Peter || |- | ''VR.5'' || Terrorist leader || Season 1, Episode 8: "Simon's Choice" |- | ''Apollo 13'' || Guenter Wendt || |- | ''Seven'' || Cab Driver || |- | ''MadTV'' || Terrorist || Season 1, Episode 4 |- | ''The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery'' || Claus Immerding || |- | rowspan="2" | 1996 || ''First Strike'' || Russian General || |- | ''The Craft'' || Monsieur Thepot || |- | rowspan="5" | 1997 || ''The Burning Zone'' || Sailor || Season 1, Episode 14: "The Last Endless Summer" |- | ''8 Heads in a Duffel Bag'' || Head of Marty || |- | ''The Peacemaker'' || Major || |- | ''Diagnosis Murder'' || Serge Otrasky || Season 5, Episode 7: "Fatal Impact: Part 1" |- | ''Kick of Death'' || Nicolai || |- | rowspan="7" | 1998 || ''Dearly Devoted'' || Host || |- | ''Buddy Faro'' || Photographer || Season 1, Episode 1 Pilot |- | ''Caroline in the City'' || Russian Man #2 || Season 4, Episode 2: "Caroline and the Office" |- | ''Assignment Berlin'' || Fred Meeks || |- | ''Seven Days'' || Trotsky || Season 1, Episode 1 Pilot: Part 1 |- | ''Houdini'' || German Stage Manager || |- | ''Acapulco H.E.A.T.'' || Karl || Season 1, Episode 9: "Code Name: Easy Green" |- | rowspan="2" | 1999 || ''Babylon 5: A Call to Arms'' || General Yuri || |- | ''The Seventh Sense'' || Ivan Leszko || |- | rowspan="6" | 2000 || ''Walker, Texas Ranger'' || Aziz || Season 8, Episode 13: "Vision Quest" |- | ''The Extra'' || Acting Teacher || |- | ''Cover Me: Based on the True Life of an FBI Family'' || Chernokov || Season 1, Episode 3: "Domestic Terrorism" |- | ''The Others'' || Pjotr || Season 1, Episode 13: "Mora" |- | ''Arli$$'' || Sergey || Season 5, Episode 11: "You Can Pick Your Friends…" |- | ''Devil in the Flesh 2'' || Host || |- | rowspan="5" | 2001 || ''The Wild Thornberrys'' || Newscaster (voice) || Season 3, Episode 14: "All Work and No Play" |- | ''NYPD Blue'' || Alexi Slakov || Season 8, Episode 5: "Fools Russian" |- | ''The Song of the Lark''<ref name="song_lark" /> || Andor Harsanyi || |- | ''Zoolander'' || German Designer || |- | ''Time Lapse'' || Rossovitch || |- | rowspan="3" | 2002 || ''The Agency'' || KGB Officer || Season 1, Episode 14: "The Gauntlet" |- | ''Alias'' || Mr. Vashko || Season 2, Episode 3: "Cipher" |- | ''24'' || Serge || Day 1, Episodes 22, 24 |- | rowspan="3" | 2003 || ''Frasier'' || Russian Crewman || Season 10, Episode 18: "Roe to Perdition" |- | ''SOCOM II: U.S. Navy SEALs'' || Additional Russia VO (voice) || |- | ''The Flannerys'' || Assassin || |- | rowspan="7" | 2004 || ''Monk'' || Captain Duprat || Season 2, Episode 10: "Mr. Monk and the Paperboy" |- | ''Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain'' || Ivankov (voice) Security Guard Worker B (voice) || |- | ''Helter Skelter'' || Polish Man || |- | ''The West Wing'' || Maitre D’ || Season 5, Episode 22: "Memorial Day" |- | ''Shadow Ops: Red Mercury'' || Voice || |- | ''House M.D.'' || Sous Chef || Season 1, Episode 7: "Fidelity" |- | ''Prodigy'' || Teacher || |- | rowspan="4" | 2005 || ''Gotham Cafe'' || French Chef || |- | ''Rainbow Six: Lockdown'' || Voice || |- | ''SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs'' || Additional Morocco AO Voices (voice) || |- | ''Age of Empires III'' || Various (voice) || |- | rowspan="4" | 2006 || ''SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Combined Assault'' || Voice || |- | ''SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 2'' || Voice || |- | ''Gilmore Girls'' || Man || Season 7, Episode 7: "French Twist" |- | ''Domestic Import'' || Nicolai || |- | rowspan="4" | 2007 || ''24'' || Stovich || Day 6, Episodes 12, 13 |- | ''The Unit'' || Terrorist || Season 2, Episode 20: "In Loco Parentis" |- | ''World in Conflict'' || Voice || |- | ''Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!'' || Billy Crystals || Season 1, Episodes 4, 6 |- | rowspan="3" | 2008 || ''The Bourne Conspiracy'' || Voice || |- | ''Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3'' || Voice || |- | ''Cold Case'' || Leo Koslov '08 || Season 6, Episode 8: "Triple Threat" |- | rowspan="3" | 2009 || ''Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!'' || Billy Crystals || Season 4, Episode 3 |- | ''Angels & Demons'' || CERN Scientist || |- | ''The Saboteur'' || Voice || |- | rowspan="4" | 2010 || ''Singularity'' || Voice || |- | ''Footsteps'' || Raymond || |- | ''Call of Duty: Black Ops'' || Voice || |- | ''Chateau Belvedere'' || Artur Masolowski || |- | rowspan="2" | 2011 || ''The Maiden Danced to Death'' || Steve Court || |- | ''Battlefield 3'' || Amir Kaffarov (voice) || |- | rowspan="4" | 2012 || ''Grimm'' || Voice on Phone (voice) || Season 1, Episode 10: "Organ Grinder" |- | ''The Big Bang Theory'' || Russian Mission Control (voice) || Season 5, Episode 24: "The Countdown Reflection" |- | ''Ghost Recon: Future Soldier'' || Russian Bodark, Additional Voices || |- | ''Liz & Dick'' || Swiss Doctor || |- | rowspan="2" | 2014 || ''Intelligence'' || Ambassador Serge Rudonov || Season 1, Episode 11: "The Grey Hat" |- | ''inFamous: Second Son'' || Russian Bully 3 (voice) || |- | rowspan="2" | 2015 || ''NCIS: New Orleans'' || Dr. Timofey Yeltin || Season 1, Episode 19: "The Insider" |- | ''The Brink'' || Yuri Subokov || Season 1, Episode 10: "There Will Be Consequences" |- | rowspan="3" | 2016 || ''Castle'' || Pavel Oborin || Season 8, Episode 11: "Dead Red" |- | ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' || Prime Minister Olshenko || Season 3, Episode 13: "Parting Shot" |- | ''South Park'' || Sergei Shoigu (voice) || Season 20, Episode 8: "Members Only" |- | 2017 || ''Behind Enemy Lines'' || Father Timofei || |- | rowspan="2" | 2018 || ''Strange Angel'' || Professor Josef Breitner || Season 1, Episode 4: "The Sage" |- | ''Skyscraper'' || Russian Newscaster (uncredited) || |- | 2020 || ''Painter'' || Anatole Ludovic || |- | rowspan="3" | 2021 || ''Shameless'' || Pavel || Season 11, Episode 5: "Slaughter" |- | ''For All Mankind'' || Soviet Chief Engineer || Season 2, Episodes 6, 7 |- | ''FBI: International'' || Gregor Varga || Season 1, Episode 8: "Voice of the People" |- | rowspan="3" | 2022 || ''South Park'' || Sergei Shoigu (voice) || Season 25, Episode 4: "Back to the Cold War" |- | ''Loot'' || Bartosz || Season 1, Episode 1 Pilot |- | ''Reasonable Doubt'' || Sergei Ivanov || Season 1, Episode 5: "So Ambitious" |- | rowspan="2" | 2023 || ''The Killer'' || The Target<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.slashfilm.com/1437492/the-killer-ending-explained-accept-yourself/ | title=The Killer Ending Explained: Accept Yourself | date=10 November 2023 }}</ref> || |- | ''It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia'' || Russian Grand Master || Season 16, Episode 4: "Frank vs. Russia" |}
==Theatre== {| class="wikitable" ! Year !! Playwright !! Title !! Role !! Venue |- | rowspan="3" | 1973 || Hules || ''Our Most Audacious Dreams'' || director/cowriter || Cellar Theatre, Budapest |- | Hules || ''Budapest'' || director/cowriter || Cellar Theatre, Budapest |- | Hules || ''Great Madness'' || co-writer || Theatre 25, Budapest |- | rowspan="3" | 1976 || Ostrovski || ''The Scoundrel'' || director || Odry Theatre, Budapest |- | Chekhov || ''Jubilee'' || director || Odry Theatre, Budapest |- | Molière || ''L'Etourdi'' || director/transl || Odry Theatre, Budapest |- | rowspan="4" | 1977 || Bennet || ''A Chorus Line'' || director || Odry Theatre, Budapest |- | Kander || ''Chicago'' || director || Odry Theatre, Budapest |- | Goldoni || ''The Liar''<ref name="szinhaz_hazug" /> || director/adapt || National Tour, Hungary |- | György Schwajda || ''Miracle!'' || director || Odry TV Studio |- | 1978 || Drzic || ''Dundo Maroje'' || director/adapt || National Theatre, Pecs |- | rowspan="3" | 1979 || Calderon || ''Life is a Dream''<ref name="szinhaz_dream" /> || director/adapt || National Theatre, Szeged |- | Miller || ''The Crucible'' || director/translator || National Theatre, Szeged |- | Hules || ''The Whole Town is Theatre'' || director || Street Spectacle |- | 1980 || Kander || ''Cabaret'' || director || National Theatre, Szeged |- | rowspan="2" | 1981 || Triana || ''The Night of the Assassins''<ref name="la_mama" /><ref name="la_mama2" /> || director || La Mama ETC, NYC |- | Prevert || ''Example of the Birds'' || director/adapt || Troupe Theatre, NYC |- | rowspan="2" | 1982 || Mrozek || ''The Emigrants'' || director || Galaxy Stage, LA |- | Hules || ''Sleeptalk'' || director/writer || NYU/ETW |- | 1983 || Molière || ''The Imaginary Invalid'' || director || Theatre 13 |- | 1984 || Kafka/Hules || ''The Trial'' || director/adapt || Bard Theatre, NY |- | rowspan="5" | 1985 || Ostrovski || ''The Scoundrel''{{citation needed|date=June 2025}} || director || Bard Theatre, NY |- | Shakespeare || ''Mischief in the Woods'' || director/adapt || Williamstown Festival |- | Stoppard || ''Dogg's Hamlet'' || director || Williamstown Festival |- | Overmeyer || ''In Perpetuity...'' || director || River Arts, NY |- | Brecht || ''In the Jungle of Cities'' || director || Bard Theatre, NY |- | rowspan="4" | 1986 || Ibsen || ''Hedda Gabler''{{citation needed|date=June 2025}} || director || Bard Theatre, NY |- | Chekhov || ''The Party'' || director/adapt || Williamstown Festival |- | Synge || ''Playboy of the Western World'' || director || Bard Theatre, NY |- | Whiting || ''No Why'' || director || Bard Theatre, NY |- | rowspan="2" | 1987 || Sanguinetti || ''Dream Analysis''{{citation needed|date=June 2025}} || director/translator || Theaters in L.A. & NY |- | Shakespeare || ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' || director || Bard Theatre, NY |- | 1992 || Shakespeare || ''Troilus and Cressida'' || director || PAC Theater Co. |- | rowspan="2" | 1995 || Shakespeare || ''Measure for Measure'' || director || LATC World Shakespeare Congress |- | Horvath || ''Tales from the Vienna Woods'' || director || Sexon Hall, Los Angeles |- | 1996 || Orton || ''Loot'' || director || Little Theatre, Pasadena |- | 2010 || Dance Drama || ''The Maiden Danced to Death'' || writer || National Dance Theater |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.eurochannel.com/en/Interview-with-Endre-Hules.html Eurochannel interview with Endre Hules] * [https://disarray.blog/2012/04/08/filmmaker-spotlight-interview-with-director-and-writer-endre-hules/ Disarray interview with Endre Hules] * {{IMDb name|id=0401352}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hules, Endre}} Category:Hungarian male film actors Category:Hungarian male television actors Category:Hungarian film directors Category:Hungarian screenwriters Category:Hungarian emigrants to the United States Category:American film actors Category:American television actors Category:American dramatists and playwrights Category:Living people Category:1954 births