Jerzy Skolimowski
Birthday: 1938-05-05 | Place of Birth: Łódź, PolandJerzy Skolimowski (Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ skɔliˈmɔfskʲi], born 5 May 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol (The Menacing Eye). In 1967 he was awarded the Golden Bear prize for his film Le départ. Among his other notable films is Deep End (1970),[1] starring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown. He lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and occasionally acted in films. He returned to Poland, and to film making as a writer and director, after a 17-year hiatus with Cztery noce z Anną (Four Nights with Anna) in 2008. He received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Film Festival.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Professor
as Jerzy Kunze
as Olgierd 'Chorwat' Szybenik
as John III Sobieski
as Self
as Wojciech Radler
as Stepan
as Hayes
as dyrektor szkoły
as Wiktor Wiktorowicz
as Doc
as Andrzej Leszczyc, Zastawa (1967 footage) / Self (1981 footage)
as Colonel Chaiko
as Hoffmann
as [obsada aktorska]
as Andrzej Leszczyc
