Jerzy Radziwiłowicz

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Jerzy Radziwiłowicz

Jerzy Radziwiłowicz (born September 8, 1950 in Warsaw ) is a Polish theater and film actor.

Radziwiłowicz studied drama at the State Theater School ( Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna im. Aleksandra Zelwerowicza - PWST) in Warsaw until 1972 and then worked at the Old Theater ( Stary Teatr ) in Kraków from 1972 to 1996 . At the same time he worked as a teacher at the Ludwik Solski Academy for Theater there ( Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna im. Ludwika Solskiego - PWST), of which he was Vice-Rector from 1981 to 1984.

Since 1998 he has been a member of the Warsaw National Theater ( Teatr Narodowy ).

His best-known film work is the double role of the fictional bricklayer and worker hero from the Nowa Huta of the 1950s, Mateusz Birkut , and his son, Maciej Tomczyk , a Solidarność trade unionist and organizer of the strikes in the Gdańsk Lenin shipyard in the early 1980s, in Andrzej Wajdas Der Mann in marble (1976, FIPRESCI Prize in Cannes 1978) and its sequel The Man of Iron (1981, Palme d'Or in Cannes 1981, Oscar nomination 1982).

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SURNAME Radziwiłowicz, Jerzy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw