The actor visited not only House of Terror, but also Zoltán Csankó, who dubs him, and only recently was he confronted with what the series meant in a post-socialist country.
Patrick Duffy, who played one of the main characters of the legendary Dallas, Bobby Ewing, was also invited to a new Hungarian comedy, so he is currently in Hungary. In September, Csaba Vékes' comedy Lepattano, starring Péter Scherer, about button football fanatics, began filming near Budapest and in Vác.
In the film, Duffy plays an emigrant Hungarian who made his career overseas, but now decides to help his childhood football club with a HUF 100 million grant.
However, due to a minor misunderstanding, he transfers the money to the soccer club with the same name.
“Basically, when the phone rings and I'm asked to do assignments, I'm usually called to shoot in New York or Canada. When my representatives received this phone call asking if I would come to Hungary, I shook my head. He was interested, but I told him that I wanted to see the script first"
Patrick Duffy previously told Blikk. In response to the newspaper's question, he also said that he had never experienced how much the spectators loved Dallas in Hungary.
he was only now confronted with what the series meant in a post-socialist country.
What Dallas showed, the possibilities, the dreams, that it opened people's eyes to a country, valued the series much higher in those countries, gave it a completely different kind of power.
"But I wasn't aware of this either until I came here," he said.
He also visited the House of Terror
The world-famous actor and his partner, actress Linda Purl, also visited the House of Terror Museum during their stay in Hungary, which made a great impression on them.
When the actor couple left, he also wrote a few lines in the guestbook of the House of Terror.
"A very important, moving experience... the world should learn", they wrote, which translates as follows in Hungarian:
"this is a very important, moving experience... from which the world should learn".
As we reported, after visiting the public collection, Duffy also met Zoltán Csankó, who dubs him.
So, are you my voice?”
- jokingly greeted the actor Zoltán Csankó, who has been voicing his American colleague in Hungarian for more than thirty years - Blikk reported on the meeting.
The newspaper revealed: Duffy asked for a photo and a recording of Csankó dubbing him, and the Hungarian dubbing actor also prepared a nice surprise for Duffy, namely a special issue of TVR Hét, on the cover of which Patrick Duffy and Victoria Principal, who plays Pamela, and the two Hungarian voices, Zoltán Csankó and Simorjay Emese, were featured.
Who is Patrick Duffy?
The multiple Golden Globe Award winning actor was born on March 17, 1949 in Townsend, Montana. In 1961, he moved with his family to Seattle, where he attended high school, majored in drama, and then graduated from the acting department at the University of Washington.
Duffy became known worldwide in the series Dallas.
He married Carlyn Duffy in 1974, and they had two children, Padraic Terence and Conor Frederick Duffy. His wife died at the beginning of 2017 after a long illness, which took such a toll on the elderly actor that he publicly announced his widowhood only after nearly half a year.
"His death came unexpectedly. There were no signs of it. So it was a big and sudden change," the actor said at the time.
Duffy comes from a Catholic Irish family,
but he later converted to Buddhism and married Carlyn according to a Buddhist ceremony.
Two years after his wife's death, Duffy still claimed to be married. In a 2019 interview, he said that he still hears and sees his late wife. He added that he still feels very close to her and misses her touch the most. It was a difficult time for her, but her children helped her cope with the grief and they all supported each other as a family.
After 43 years, the actor found love again, which was unimaginable for him until then, and he gave it up completely after his wife's death.
However, to his greatest surprise, he was given a second chance at happiness,
when he met the actress and singer Linda Purl, with whom he now appears in the House of Terror photo.
Their acquaintance began during the pandemic and the quarantine, and in July 2020 they officially formed a couple. "I wasn't looking for love, but it found me," said the actor about his new relationship. According to him, he and Purl are very happy together and do almost everything together.
“Our lifestyles make us very compatible in almost every way imaginable. For example, in the kitchen, the way we cook, the way we clean, the way we work together as individuals"
explained the actor in an interview at the time.
Duffy's sons are also actors, and although not as famous as their father,
both are successful in their professions and happy in their private lives. Both started families and now have children of their own.
Featured image: House of Terror Museum Facebook page
