Leon Niemczyk
Leon Niemczyk (born December 15, 1923 in Warsaw , † November 29, 2006 in Łódź ) was a Polish actor .
Life
Leon Niemczyk tried to flee Stalinist Poland with his brother Ludwik in the late 1940s . They were caught together and imprisoned for trying to escape. After his release, Leon Niemczyk began to work as a shipyard worker in Gdansk . A workers' theater was set up there, where he gained his first experience as an actor. During one of the performances he was discovered by film people from Łódź .
Niemczyk had been one of the preeminent actors in Poland since the 1950s . He played among all the great Polish film directors. Some of his films are still legends of Polish cinema and known beyond Poland's borders. In 1962 he played the leading role in Roman Polański's early work The Knife in the Water . In total he starred in over 150 films. Other legendary films: Night Train (1959) by Jerzy Kawalerowicz , The Crusaders (1960) by Aleksander Ford based on the novel of the same name by Henryk Sienkiewicz , The Wolf (1983) and shortly before his death Inland Empire (2006) by David Lynch . He was also often seen in DEFA productions, for example as Rat Mentzel in the multi-part series Sachsens Glanz and Preussens Gloria and in various DEFA Indian films .
Filmography (selection)
- 1957: The eighth day of the week (Ósmy dzien tygodnia)
- 1958: Eroica (Eroica - Symfonia bohaterska w dwóch częściach)
- 1959: Night train (Pociąg)
- 1960: The Crusaders (Krzyżacy)
- 1962: The knife in the water (Nóż w wodzie)
- 1964: The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie)
- 1966: The frozen lightning
- 1968: Countess Cosel (Hrabina Cosel)
- 1969: Rendezvous with unknown : Frogman to Poland (TV series)
- 1969: time to live
- 1969: Suspected dead person
- 1970: Pygmalion XII
- 1970: Follow a Star (TV)
- 1970: From Our Time (Episode 4)
- 1971: Salut Germain
- 1971: KLK to PTX - Die Rote Kapelle
- 1971: Tecumseh
- 1973: Copernicus (Kopernik)
- 1973: Under the pear tree
- 1973: Apaches
- 1974: the keys
- 1974: Visa for Ocantros
- 1975: The Black Mill (TV)
- 1975: The Invisible Visor (TV)
- 1975: My blue bird flies
- 1975: Police call 110: Between the tracks (TV)
- 1976: In the dust of the stars
- 1976: Beethoven - Days in One Life
- 1976: Trini
- 1978: Severino
- 1978: Anton the magician
- 1979: The Dragon's Gray Breath (TV)
- 1979: The executioner's brother
- 1980: The Rajgrod smugglers
- 1980: Archives of Death (TV)
- 1980: Levin's Mill
- 1982: The long ride to school
- 1982: The Prince behind the Seven Seas
- 1984: female doctors
- 1984: Front Without Mercy (TV)
- 1985: Franziska (TV)
- 1985: Saxony's glamor and Prussia's glory (TV six-part)
- 1986: The bearskin
- 1988: Prairie Hunters in Mexico (TV)
- 1989: Vera - The Difficult Path of Knowledge (TV three-part)
- 1989: cornflower blue
- 1989: The dispute over the donkey's shadow
- 1992: The down bearer
- 1993: The homesickness of Walerjan Wróbel (TV)
- 1998: Paula and happiness
Radio plays
- 1970: Rolf Schneider : Platanenstrasse 10 (Grigoori Bestjuschew) - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
Awards
- 1969: National Prize of the GDR for the role of Max Reger in Zeit zu Leben
Individual evidence
- ^ Joachim Reichow: Film in Poland . With an essay by Stanislaw Janicki. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1979, Bio-Filmographien, p. 91–153 , here p. 131 .
Web links
- Leon Niemczyk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- DEFA great moments
- Portrait on filmpolski.pl with photos
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Niemczyk, Leon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 29, 2006 |
| Place of death | Łódź |