István Bujtor (May 5, 1942 – September 25, 2009), born István Frenreisz, was a Hungarian actor, director, producer and screenplay writer

Biography

Bujtor started his acting career in 1964, and played in more than a hundred Hungarian films. He won the Béla Balázs Award in 1979.

In the early 1980s he became known as the Hungarian voice of Bud Spencer. Based on his real life similarity with Spencer, later a series of Hungarian comedies were created in the Bud Spencer-Terence Hill genre, in which Bujtor played hard-hitting detective Csöpi Ötvös partnered with fellow Hungarian actor András Kern.

In January 2008 he became the director of the Petőfi Theatre in Veszprém.