Tadeusz Łomnicki

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Tadeusz Łomnicki (born July 28, 1927 in Podhajce near Lemberg , † February 22, 1992 in Poznan ) was a Polish actor .

Life

Tadeusz Łomnicki's grave in the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw

Tadeusz Łomnicki began his acting training in 1945 at the Drama School of Teatr Stary in Krakow . The gifted actor was allowed to take the actor's examination in the same year and began his first engagement in Katowice in 1946 . A year later he came back to Kraków and played in both major theaters before Erwin Axer hired him at the Teatr Współczesny in Warsaw in 1949 . Until 1974 he was part of the ensemble of this theater. In addition, he began to study directing at the State Drama School PWST in Warsaw in the 1950s , of which he was later rector from 1970 to 1981. He graduated as a director in 1954. In addition to his work at the Axers Theater, he starred in numerous films from 1950 and as a guest at the Polish National Theater in Warsaw.

As an actor who was highly valued by the socialist regime and was also a party member, he was given the opportunity to set up his own new theater in 1976. This is how the Teatr na Woli in Warsaw came into being, which he managed until 1981. Two days after General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law in December 1981 , he returned his party membership card. After that he only had short engagements at the Teatr Polski and Studio Theater in Warsaw, but from the 1980s onwards he worked primarily as a freelance actor in various theaters and played in films.

Łomnicki was considered the most important and respected actor in Polish theater and film, who received the highest Polish honors from the 1950s. Numerous film roles that he took on were among the classics of Polish cinema. His outstanding film role was the title role in the Henryk Sienkiewicz film adaptation of the third part of the Pan Wolodyjowski trilogy . He died in 1992 while rehearsing for King Lear at Teatr Nowy in Poznan. He stepped off the stage with a Lear monologue and died of a heart attack in his dressing room.

Important roles in the theater

Filmography (selection)

Łomnicki's star on the Walk of Fame in Łódź

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personal data
SURNAME Łomnicki, Tadeusz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Podhajce , Lviv
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1992
Place of death Poses