Ferenc Zenthe

Ferenc Zenthe was a Hungarian actor, honored with being chosen as an Actor of the Nation, the Kossuth Prize and the Meritorious Artist Award of Hungary. Best known from the historical series A Tenkes Kapitnya and pioneering soap opera Szomszdok, he was regarded as one of the great talents of his generation.

Ferenc Zenthe was born onApril 1920 in Salgbnya as the only son of a 50yearold mining engineer. He attended the Cistercian high school of Eger, then attended four semesters in the University of Economics in Budapest, which he left to join the Academy of Performing Arts in 1941, but ended his studies after one year because of World War II. He joined the National Theatre of Pcs in 1945, and after two seasons, the Kisfaludy Theatre of Gyr . In 1949 he joined the Csokonai Theatre of Debrecen, and in 1952 the Madch Theatre of Budapest, where he stayed for the rest of his life.

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