Endre Hules

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. and entered into its collection and Hules was invited to festival juries and panels.

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, La Mama ETC 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, the Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Színház 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, 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. He sold over a dozen screenplays, two of which he also directed and co-produced: 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 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 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 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 Year Film Role Notes 1989 This Ain't Bebop The Poet China Beach Younger Male Dinner Guest Season 3, Episode 8: "China Men" 1990 Mancuso, FBI Alex Season 1, Episode 11: "Shall We Gdansk?" Problem Child Additional Voices 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" 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" 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 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 1996 First Strike Russian General The Craft Monsieur Thepot 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 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" 1999 Babylon 5: A Call to Arms General Yuri The Seventh Sense Ivan Leszko 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 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 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Russian Grand Master Season 16, Episode 4: "Frank vs. Russia"

Theatre Year Playwright Title Role Venue 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 1976 Ostrovski The Scoundrel director Odry Theatre, Budapest Chekhov Jubilee director Odry Theatre, Budapest Molière L'Etourdi director/transl Odry Theatre, Budapest 1977 Bennet A Chorus Line director Odry Theatre, Budapest Kander Chicago director Odry Theatre, Budapest Goldoni The Liar director/adapt National Tour, Hungary György Schwajda Miracle! director Odry TV Studio 1978 Drzic Dundo Maroje director/adapt National Theatre, Pecs 1979 Calderon Life is a 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 1981 Triana The Night of the Assassins director La Mama ETC, NYC Prevert Example of the Birds director/adapt Troupe Theatre, NYC 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 1985 Ostrovski The Scoundrel 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 1986 Ibsen Hedda Gabler 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 1987 Sanguinetti Dream Analysis 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. 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