Jerzy Duszyński (actor)
Jerzy Duszyński | |
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Born | Jerzy Duszyński 15 May 1917 |
Died | 23 July 1978 (aged 61) |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1939 ─ 1978 |
Spouse(s) | Hanka Bielicka (1943–1953) Helena Urbaniak (1964–1978) |
Jerzy Duszyński ([ˈjɛʐɨ duˈʂɨɲskʲi]; May 15, 1917–July 23, 1978) was one of the most popular actors in a post-war Poland. He starred in a number of film productions as well as theatrical plays.[1]
Biography[]
Born in Moscow in the family of Feliks (a civil servant and state administration official, activist of the Polish Red Cross) and Maria Duszyński who were evacuated from Poland right before the offensive of the German Army during World War I. After the end of World War I, along with his parents he returned to Warsaw and then soon after the family moved to Mińsk Mazowiecki, where he graduated in 1935 from .
After finishing high school, he continued his education at the Municipal School of Arts and Decorative Painting in Warsaw (now the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw), where he studied for only one year. In 1936, he passed the entrance exam at the Theater Arts Department of the , where he studied along with Hanka Bielicka and Danuta Szaflarska. He successfully completed his studies in June 1939.
His stage career began just before World War II, with a debut on 25 July 1939 in the role of the minister's cousin in ("Geneva") in Polish Theater in Warsaw and then in Wilno, where he performed between 1939–41 at Theater on Pohulanka together with Hanka Bielicka and Danuta Szaflarska. After Soviet troops entered the city, he played at . At the end of 1944 he moved with the theater's team to Białystok and by the end of 1944–45 season he performed in local theater. Between 1945–49 he was an actor of the Teatr Kameralny Wojska Polskiego of Łódź. Together with a team of theater (which changed its name to ) moved to Warsaw and performed in it until 1955. In the 1955–56 season and in the years 1958–60 he was an actor of Teatr Syrena, 1956–57 Teatr Narodowy, 1960–66 Teatr Ateneum, 1966–71 Teatr Klasyczny, 1971–78 Teatr Rozmaitości.
Jerzy Duszyński's film career was supposed to start in 1939 in Hania – a film directed by Józef Lejtes, for which the shooting began in summer of 1939, but – due to the outbreak of the war – the film was never completed.
After the war he played in two popular films: and Zakazane piosenki, that have made him the first male star of the post-war Polish cinema.
His last major film role was as Józef Piłsudski in Śmierć prezydenta directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz in 1978.
He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Krzyż Kawalerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski) and the Gold Cross of Merit (Złoty Krzyż Zasługi).
Family life[]
Jerzy Duszyński was married to actress Hanka Bielicka. Duszyński and Bielicka divorced in 1953.
In 1963 he married Helena Urbaniak, with whom he had only son: Marcin Duszyński.
Death[]
Jerzy Duszyński died on 23 July 1978 in Warsaw as a result of lung cancer.
Partial filmography[]
- (1946, dir. , ) as Marek
- Zakazane piosenki (1946, dir. Leonard Buczkowski) as Roman Tokarski
- (1949, dir. Leonard Buczkowski) as Witek Konar
- Warsaw Premiere (1951, dir. Jan Rybkowski) as Wlodzimierz Wolski
- Młodość Chopina (1952, dir. Aleksander Ford) as Stefan Witwicki
- Żołnierz zwycięstwa (1953, dir. Wanda Jakubowska) as Henryk Liciński
- (1954, dir. Erwin Axer) as soldier
- (1954, dir. Jan Rybkowski) as Wiktor Poradzki
- Černý prapor (1958, dir. Vladimír Čech) as Antek
- Awantura o Basię (1959, dir. Maria Kaniewska) as Stanisław Olszowski
- (1959, dir. ) as journalist Andrzej Zagórski
- Mąż swojej żony (1961, dir. Stanisław Bareja) as Kurkiewicz
- (1963, dir. ) as Strzałka
- Panienka z okienka (1964, dir. Maria Kaniewska) as Denhof
- (1966, dir. Jerzy Stefan Stawiński) as doctor
- (1968-1969, TV Series)
- (1969, TV Series, dir. Stanisław Jędryka)
- (1969, dir. ) as Clerk (uncredited)
- (1969, dir. Stanisław Jędryka) as journalist
- Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową (1969, dir. Tadeusz Chmielewski) as Leonelli (uncredited)
- Hydrozagadka (1970, TV Movie, dir. Andrzej Kondratiuk) as Docent Frątczak;
- (1970, dir. )
- (1973, dir. Jerzy Stefan Stawiński) as Professor
- Noce i dnie (1975, dir. Jerzy Antczak)
- Ocalić miasto (1976, dir. Jan Łomnicki) as Hans Frank
- (1976, dir. )
- Śmierć prezydenta (1977, dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz) as Józef Piłsudski
- (1977–1978, TV Series, dir. )
- (1977, dir. ) as uncle Karol
- (1977, dir. )
- Co mi zrobisz, jak mnie złapiesz? (1978, dir. Stanisław Bareja) as customer at the grocery store
- Doktor Murek (1978, dir. Witold Lesiewicz)
Theatrical Plays[]
- , , premiere: 14 September 1939;
- Cieszmy się życiem, Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, premiere: 3 November 1939;
- , Leon Schiller, premiere: 25 December 1939;
- Tessa, Margaret Kennedy, Basil Dean, premiere: 28 January 1940;
- , Gabriela Zapolska, premiere: 04.1940;
- Maria Stuart, Juliusz Słowacki, premiere: 1940;
- , , Robert de Flers, premiere: 7 July 1940;
- , teksty różnych autorów, premiere: 1 August 1940;
- Cyd, Pierre Corneille, premiere: 19 June 1941;
- , Alejandro Casona, premiere: unknown;
- , Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, premiere: 1946;
- Spotkanie, Jean Anouilh, dir. Kazimierz Rudzki, premiere: 26 November 1946;
- , Tadeusz Gajcy, dir. , premiere: 22 January 1947;
- Szklana menażeria, Tennessee Williams, dir. Erwin Axer, premiere: 1 March 1947;
- Amfitrion 38, Jean Giraudoux, dir. Erwin Axer, premiere: 18 September 1947;
- Joanna z Lotaryngii, Maxwell Anderson, dir. Erwin Axer, premiere: 25 June 1948;
- , Leon Kruczkowski, dir. Erwin Axer, premiere: 5 November 1949;
- , Howard Fast, dir. Erwin Axer, premiere: 30 April 1952;
- , , dir. Erwin Axer, premiere: 27 July 1952;
- , Leon Kruczkowski, dir. Erwin Axer, premiere: 18 February 1955;
- , mixed program, dir. Stanisława Perzanowska, premiere: 10 July 1955;
- , Julian Tuwim, dir. Adolf Dymsza, premiere: 9 June 1956;
- Madame Sans-Gene, Victorien Sardou, dir. Andrzej Łapicki, premiere: 15 November 1958;
- Maestro, J.Minkiewicz, A.Marianowicz, dir. K.Krukowski, premiere: 23 October 1959;
- , , dir. , premiere: 23 December 1959;
- Ryszard III, William Shakespeare, dir. Jacek Woszczerowicz, premiere: 17 October 1960;
- Śmierć komiwojażera, Arthur Miller, dir. , premiere: 26 November 1960;
- , , dir. , premiere: 14 January 1961;
- , Leon Schiller, dir. , premiere: 25 February 1961;
- , , dir. , premiere: 24 March 1961;
- Andorra, Max Frisch, dir. , premiere: 2 May 1962;
- , , dir. Jerzy Markuszewski, premiere: 19 October 1962;
- , John Whiting, dir. Andrzej Wajda, premiere: 2 March 1963;
- Marie-Octobre, J.Robert, J.Duvivier, H.Jeanson, dir. , premiere: 24 October 1963;
- , Ernest Hemingway, dir. Jacek Woszczerowicz, premiere: 28 January 1964;
- Madame Bovary, Gustav Flaubert, dir. , premiere: 23 November 1966;
- Dziś do ciebie przyjść nie mogę, , , dir. , premiere: 12 March 1967;
- , Janusz Głowacki, dir. , premiere: 14 May 1972;
- , G. Gottesman, A.Jarecki, dir. , premiere: 19 November 1972;
- , , dir. , premiere: 16 February 1973;
- , , dir. , premiere: 17 February 1974;
- , Georges Feydeau, dir. , premiere: 21 June 1976;
- , , dir. , premiere: 12 November 1976;
- Happy End, Dorothy Lane, dir. Olga Lipińska, premiere: 4 May 1977;
- , Edward Redliński, dir. , premiere: 4 May 1977;
- , , dir. Wojciech Pokora, premiere: 8 April 1978.
References[]
- ^ Jerzy Duszyński at the Internet Polish Movie Database (in Polish)
External links[]
- Jerzy Duszyński at IMDb
- Jerzy Duszyński at the Polish Film Academy (in Polish)
- 1917 births
- 1978 deaths
- Male actors from Warsaw
- Male actors from Moscow
- Burials at Powązki Cemetery
- Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland)
- Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw alumni
- 20th-century Polish male actors