, Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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 - 21 December 1980, Warsaw

Warsaw

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, Poland

People's Republic of Poland

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) was a Polish actor.

He graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory in 1929, making his theatrical debut at 21 November that year as Francis Flute

Francis Flute

Francis Flute is a character in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream. His occupation is a bellows-mender. He is forced to play the female role of Thisbe in "Pyramus and Thisbe", a play within the play which is performed for Theseus' marriage celebration....

 in the Vilnius

Vilnius

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 Municipal Theater production of A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...

. Along the years, he was part of the regular cast in the Warsaw Elizeum Theater (at 1931), the Lemberg Municipal Theater (from 1932 to 1938), the Pohulanka Theater in Warsaw (1938-41), the Łódź Soldiers' House Theater (1946-47), the Zygmunt Hübner Theater in Warsaw (1947-9), the Modernist Warsaw Theater (1949-1957) and the Polish Theatre

Polish Theatre in Warsaw

Polish Theatre in Warsaw The theatre was initiated by Arnold Szyfman and designed by Czesław Przybylski. Finished in 1913, the facility featured Poland's first revolving stage. It a private enterprise staging Polish and foreign classics, contemporary drama, as well as popular plays.The theater was ...

 (1957-75). In 1963 he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

He first appeared on screen at the 1937 movie Flaming Heart (Płomienne serca), as the student-turned-soldier Wojtek. He played in more than thirty movies and television productions until his departure.

Select Filmography

• Żołnierz zwycięstwa
  Żołnierz zwycięstwa
  Żołnierz zwycięstwa is a 1953 Polish biographical two-part film , portraying the life of General Karol Świerczewski. The first part, Lata walki deals with his earlier years, from 1905 to 1941. The second one, Zwycięzca depicts his life from 1944 to his death at 1947....
  
  (1953) - uncredited role.
• Knights of the Teutonic Order
  Knights of the Teutonic Order (film)
  Knights of the Teutonic Order is a 1960 Polish film directed by Aleksander Ford based on the novel of the same name by Henryk Sienkiewicz....
  
  (1960) - Castellan
  Castellans of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
  Castellans of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were the lower rank officials who could sit in the Senate of Poland. Their numbers varied with time and shifting borders of the Commonwealth....
  
   of Krakow
  Kraków
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• Kapitan Sowa na tropie
  Kapitan Sowa na tropie
  Kapitan Sowa na tropie is a Polish series from 1965 directed by Stanisław Bareja. It was the first Polish criminal series made after World War II....
  
  (1965) - Professor Sandecki.
• Liberation
  Liberation (film series)
  Liberation is an epic five-part film series considered the most large-scale World War II film ever made in the Soviet Union. Filmed from 1967 to 1971, the first part was released during 1970 for the 25th anniversary of Victory Day...
  
  (1969-71) - Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
• Epilog norymberski
  Epilog norymberski
  Epilog norymberski is a Polish historical film. It was released in 1970....
  
  (1970) - defendant.
• Soldiers of Freedom
  Soldiers of Freedom
  Soldiers of Freedom is a 1977 film directed by Yuri Ozerov and starring Mikhail Ulyanov, Yevgeny Matveyev, Vasily Lanovoy. Soldiers of Freedom is the World War II historical drama.-Plot:...
  
  (1977) - Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

External links

• Stanisław Jaśkiewicz on the IMDb.