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Vass László

Early life

László Vass was the third child of a carpenter Lóránd Vass and his wife Erzsébet Zölde (later the parents got divorced).

His father was a gendarme when the family moved to Hungary from Transylvania during World War One.

László grew up in a small municipality called Farkaslyuk. As a child, he was an assistant of a shoemaker but his desire was to be a soldier one day.

Education

The primary school he was attended took place at Putnok then he finished his secondary school studied at Székesfehérvár in 1952. He was interested in languages thus he began hungarian-russian language studies at Kossuth Lajos Tudományegyetem in Debrecen, 1953. In a short period of time he became the best russian-speaker at he university. He always had interest in art, especially theatricals, poetry and singing. At that time he was a friend of the Kossuth Prize winner poet, Buda Ferenc.

It is important to know that László was a rebellious man, a member of the counter-revolution who refused to shave his beard to express his different political view during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 which caused him to got monitored by 2 informers hired by Nagy Imre.

He recited a rousing, encouraging poem by Ferenc Buda at the university and that was the reason of locking him down into a prison in Állampuszta for a little more than a year, 1957.

László had to finish all his studies because the court order prohibited him from participating in higher education in any institution in Hungary. After getting the news, he got a nervous breakdown which him led to lost around 30 kilogramms.

In 1959 he was released from prison but he could not get a job because of his criminal record. Interestingly, the government tried to convince him to be a secret agent at South-America however he still refused to be on the government's side and it was known that most of the secret agents were not able to come back to Hungary so he stayed at his hometown, Ózd.

1961, He got married to ..... and his first child born, called Andrea. Unfortunately their marriage hadn't taken for long, they got divorced after a couple of months.

Years later he got accepted to the Factory of Ózd as a coal shovelling man, furthermore he became a payroll analyst .

A restaurant, called Kék Acél hosted a troupe, a theatre company at Ózd where László was a member and he started to attend to a singing teacher to develop his singing skills which was already outstanding.

At this point of his life he met with his future wife, Csorba Ilona. She was a singer and actress and they both attended to the same teacher. Their love was so overwhelming that they decided to move to Eger and apply to the theatre. They got accepted and both of them became a supernumerary, part-time actor/actress.

In 1964 Ilona and László got married and two years later in 1966 their only child, Gábor was born.

The family moved to Miskolc to work at the local theatre: Miskolci Nemzeti Színház. Then, the parents had the opportunity to play at the theatre of Kaposvár thus László and his wife moved again and left their child with his grandmother at his mother's hometown: Nekézseny. It was a hard period for the family but at the same time the parents run a high success in their career.

The couple both played at the theatre and László sang in a bar as well.

From 1972 the actor and his son moved back to Miskolc and

In 1996 he retired.

Personal life

Wife: Csorba Ilona

Children: Vass Andrea, Vass Gábor

Plays

• 1972 - play part in John the Valiant (Petőfi Sándor)

See also

Csorba Ilona#Magánélete

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