Filmmaker · Hungary
Pál Gábor
Died in 1987
Pál Gábor was born in Dunaföldvár on 2 November 1932. A graduate in Hungarian literature from the University of Budapest, he taught for a year at the secondary school in Mosonmagyaróvár, then graduated from the Academy of Theatre and Film in 1961. An assistant to several directors, he made short films at the Béla Balázs Studio, directed his first feature in 1968 and then made several with the writer Endre Vészi. He taught at the Academy from 1969. He died of a heart attack in Rome on 21 October 1987, shortly before his fifty-fifth birthday.