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Adrian Panek was born on 19 May 1975 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. Adrian is a director and writer, known for Werewolf (2018), Moja biedna glowa (2009) and Daas (2011).- Actress
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Natalia Avelon was born on 29 March 1980 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for Eight Miles High (2007), Gegengerade (2011) and Far Cry (2008).- Actor
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Actor Martin Harris currently co-stars in writer/director David O. Russell's star-studded 1930s murder mystery, Amsterdam. He also recently portrayed a Czech police officer in Netflix's edgy international thriller, The Gray Man; he co-starred opposite Colin Firth in The Staircase biographical crime series; he played a German bartender opposite Tony Dalton in the final season of Better Call Saul; and he's one of actor David Harbour's fellow prisoners in a Soviet gulag in the latest season of the acclaimed science fiction series Stranger Things.
A native of Wroclaw, Poland, Martin started his career as an international sportswriter, broadcaster and author, with a specialty in NBA basketball. Not only did he write a best-selling book about the Los Angeles Lakers, but he credits the late Kobe Bryant for giving him the salient advice to follow his dreams and become an actor.
Prior to Bryant's advice, Martin got a quick dose of film history when he became fascinated with a DVD set of the twenty-five best movies of all time. That combined with a passion for James Bond movies and the cinema of Robert De Niro led him to become an actor in Hollywood.
After studying intensely at the Stella Adler Theater and the Beverly Hills Playhouse, Martin began to land gradually larger roles in major television and film productions. These included the part of Lt. Nikolai Zybulski, a primary adversary in TNT's The Last Ship post-apocalyptic series; a Croatian agent in the controversial feature The Hunt; and a prison tower sharpshooter in Red Notice.
When he isn't working in film and television, Martin loves rock music (he once headlined a heavy metal band called Army of Darkness back in Poland), and he also does significant voice work for computer and video games - one of those voices is fan-favorite "Krueger," the beloved character on Call of Duty.- Cinematographer
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Andrzej Sekula was born in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Pulp Fiction (1994), American Psycho (2000) and Reservoir Dogs (1992).- Director
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Agnieszka Smoczynska was born on 18 May 1978 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. She is a director and writer, known for The Lure (2015), Fugue (2018) and The Silent Twins (2022). She is married to Andrzej Konopka. They have two children.- Writer
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Robert Wiene was born on 24 April 1873 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a writer and director, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Das wandernde Licht (1916) and The Knight of the Rose (1925). He died on 17 July 1938 in Paris, France.- Actor
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Mikolaj Roznerski was born on 6 December 1983 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for Life Feels Good (2013), Supermarket (2012) and Fighter (2019).- Actress
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Malgorzata Kozuchowska is a Polish actress and TV presenter. She completed her education at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw. After graduation, she joined to the Warsaw's Dramatic Theater until 2005, and then she was an actress at the National Theater until 2014. She is best known for her role as Hanka Mostowiak in the popular Polish television series M jak milosc (2000), and as Natalia Boska in Rodzinka.pl (2011). She has been awarded the Medal for Merit to Culture - Gloria Artis and the Order of Polonia Restituta.- Actress
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Kinga Preis was born on 31 August 1971 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for The Lure (2015), Cisza (2001) and In Darkness (2011).- Actor
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The immensely prolific actor Reinhard Glemnitz was trained at the Otto-Falckenberg-School in Munich and launched his career on Cologne's cabaret scene. He worked for Bavarian radio, then went on the stage in Wuppertal and in 1961 joined the Bavarian State Theatre in Munich as an ensemble member. Some twenty years later, he was able to celebrate his greatest theatrical success in Vienna, Berlin and Munich as Colonel Juan Peron in the musical Evita. In 1996 he scored another hit as the idiosyncratic, parsimonious Horace Vandergelder (the role played by Walter Matthau in the film) in Hello Dolly at the Komödie im Bayerischen Hof .
In films from 1954, Glemnitz began by playing soldiers, public officials and attorneys. By the mid-60s, he had segued into episodic television, making repeat appearances in the cold war espionage series Die fünfte Kolonne (1963) and in Germany's first entry into the science fiction genre on TV, Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (1966). However, Glemnitz was to become most famous for his crime dramas, first as narrator of the intro for Das Kriminalmuseum (1963), and, secondly, from 1968 to 1975, as Erik Ode's logical thinking offsider Inspektor Robert Heines in Der Kommissar (1969). This role garnered Glemnitz, along with three other cast members, an impressive 5 Bambi Awards (1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1975). Prior to his retirement from the screen in 2006, he made guest appearances on other diverse TV shows like Der Millionenbauer (1979), Forsthaus Falkenau (1989), Derrick (1974) and Tatort (1970). He has also occasionally portrayed historical characters like Johann Reichsgraf von Aldringen (1588-1634) in the 4-part period drama Wallenstein (1978) and General Hans Speidel (1897-1984) in the American miniseries War and Remembrance (1988) .
Few others have made a more substantial contribution to the art of voice acting. Reinhard Glemnitz has been the German dubbing voice for a multitude of stars, including Patrick Stewart, Robert Duvall, Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine, Bruce Dern and Anthony Perkins. He narrated the classic Franco-German adventure series Der Seewolf (1971) from the perspective of its protagonist (Edward Meeks). He provided the German voice for Murray Hamilton in Jaws (1975), Edward Fox in A Bridge Too Far (1977), Richard Harris in Camelot (1967), Mitch Pileggi in Stargate: Atlantis (2004) and Patrick Malahide (as Walsingham, in Elizabeth I (2005)) - these, and many, many more.- Tatja Seibt was born on 3 March 1944 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for Wahnfried (1986), Homesick (2015) and Dark (2017).
- Amadeus August was born on 6 May 1942 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Quentin Durward (1971), Bloody Friday (1972) and La conquête du ciel (1980). He died on 6 July 1992 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Bart Voitila was born on 10 March 1982 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for Doc Holliday's Revenge (2014), 7 Deadly Sins (2019) and Playing with Fire (2008).
- Ewa Skibinska was born on 11 February 1963 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for Television Theater (1953), Artysci (2016) and Wszystko, co najwazniejsze... (1992).
- Cezary Lukaszewicz was born on 25 August 1981 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for Loving Vincent (2017), I Am Lying Now (2019) and The Thaw (2022).
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Olaf Lubaszenko, a Polish actor, director, and producer, is known for his association with Theatre Buffo. He studied sociology at Warsaw University and the Christian Academy of Theology in Warsaw. He gained popularity for his roles in Pilkarski poker (1989) and A Short Film About Love (1988). He also starred in Kroll (1991) and Sekal Has to Die (1998). As a director, he made his mark with the comedy Sztos (1997).- Director
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Kuba graduated in directing from the University of Silesia's Krzysztof Kieslowski Faculty of Radio and Television in 2010 and went on to write and directed the award-winning short films Don't be Afraid of the Dark room and Twist & Blood.
His screenplay for his debut full-length feature, Baby Bump, was one of the three winners of the 2014-2015 edition of the Biennale College - Cinema programme. The film itself received a Special Mention in the Queer Lion competition at the 72nd International Film Festival in Venice (2015) and won Kuba the Artistic Vision Award at the 2016 Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival.
His next full-length feature, The Elprince, won the Young Jury Award at the 2016 Gdynia Film Festival. It received its American premiere at the 2017 Slamdance Festival and its first European screening at the Berlin International Film Festival the same year.
The 2017 Berlinale also saw Kuba win the Baumi Script Development Award, which commemorates producer Karl 'Baumi' Baumgartner, for the screenplay for his next film, Sorry, Poland. Then, at the 2017 Cannes International Film Festival, Sorry, Poland won the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award for the Best Script from Central and Eastern Europe.
Kuba has received numerous other awards and special mentions at Polish and international film events.- Actress
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Justyna Wasilewska was born on 28 November 1985 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. She is an actress and composer, known for The Cracks (2021), Hold Tight (2022) and The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka (2017).- Actress
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Monica Teuber was born on 12 July 1942 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. She is an actress and producer, known for Magdalene (1988), Jamila (1995) and Red Heat (1985). She is married to Hans-Christoph von Goetz.- Gabriela Kownacka is one of those stunning actresses with career that lasts for decades. She was born in Wroclaw, Poland in 1952 and appeared on screen 20 years later in Andrzej Wajda's _Wesele (1972)_. She graduated from PWST (Public Upper School of Theatre) in Warsaw in 1975 and gave first performance on stage soon after. She worked in various theatres icluding Kwadrat (1975 - 1978), Teatr Wspolczesny (1978 - 1984) and Studio (1984 - 1999). Since 1999 she's worked in Teatr Narodowy gaining critic's acclaim. She became popular after her role in Jerzy Hoffman's movie - Tredowata (1977) for which she won Zbigniew Cybulski Award for the most talented actress. Since then she worked on both Polish and international productions.
- Strongheart, the German shepherd who was a canine superstar of American cinema, was born and raised in Imperial Germany, where he was trained to be a police dog and assigned to the German military during World War I. Called "Etzel von Oringer," the German shepherd was born on October 1, 1917, descended from a carefully bred line. Trained as an attack dog, the 125-pound (57 kilograms) Strongheart was fearless. American director Laurence Trimble, who was famous as an animal trainer, and his wife, Jane Murfin, a screenwriter, had been searching Europe for a dog that could appear in motion pictures. When Trimble came across the three-year-old Strongheart in 1920, he knew he had the makings of a canine star.
The major problem Trimble faced was that, trained as a police dog, Strongheart had not socialized much with human beings. Back in Hollywood, it took Trimble months to train the dog in order to de-emphasize his harsh police dog-style training. Trimble had the dog by his side virtually non-stop for months, continually rewarding him for good behavior. Eventually, Strongheart's prior police habits were broken as his Libra personality came to the fore, and he was turned into a magnificently trained animal. However, certain aspects of his flat-footed past remained with him: Blessed with great instincts, particularly regarding the moral character of strangers, the dog would track people of dubious morality.
There were many canine stars of silent movies, including Teddy, the Great Dane who co-starred with a young Gloria Swanson, the collie Jean at Vitagraph, and the English pit bull Luke. In the 1920's, a group of German shepherd dogs romped on-screen and became stars, with Strongheart and `Rin Tin Tin' the most prominent among them.
His first movie, "The Silent Call" (1921), bore Trimble's expectations out, making Strongheart a star, beloved by movie-goers of all ages. Strongheart was given the star treatment, traveling by train to make personal appearances, at which he was greeted by crowds of adoring fans. He was written up in newspapers and magazines, and even the radio proclaimed "Strongheart" a star. A dog food named after him became popular and is still being produced over three-quarters of a century later. In the ultimate accolade, J. Allen Boone wrote two books about the shepherd, "Letters to Strongheart" and "Kinship with All Life."
Strongheart appeared in "Brawn of the North" (1922), "The Love Master" (1924), "White Fang" (1925), "North Star" (1925) and "The Return of Boston Blackie" (1927). Love came his way when he was paired with Lady Jule, a female German Shepherd who co-starred with him. The happy canine couple produced many litters, including offspring who would sire pups who grew up to be movie stars themselves.
The Trimbles placed a plaque over Strongheart's bed that contained a quote from the Book of Job: "Ask the very beasts, and they will teach you."
Tragedy struck down Strongheart at the height of his career, when he slipped and was burned by a studio light. The burn rapidly turned into a tumor and claimed Strongheart's life on or around June 24, 1929.
Strongheart's grandson "Lightning" was a canine movie star in the the 1930's, appearing in "A Dog of Flanders," "Wings in the Dark," and "When Lightning Strikes." Another grandson, "Silver King," also appeared in the movies and made personal appearances as part of a safety program for children. - Babatunde Aiyegbusi was born on 26 May 1988 in Wroclaw, Poland. He is an actor, known for WWE Smackdown! (1999), WWE NXT (2010) and The Main Event (2020).
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Eugen Schüfftan moved from his motherland, Germany, to France in 1933 to escape the rising Nazi movement. He moved to the US in 1940 and became a member of Local 644, the East Coast cinematographers chapter of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). He invented the Schüfftan Process for optical special effects that was used until it was replaced by the simpler matte method. He received the Academy Award for black and white cinematography in 1962 for The Hustler (1961).
For a variety of reasons, Schufftan did not receive proper screen credit for many films he photographed. Director Edgar G. Ulmer, who worked with Schufftan on several films, said it was because he wasn't in the ASC (American Society of Cinematographers) and therefore wasn't allowed to take screen credit. Ulmer said that on one or two of the films he made with Schufftan he was forced to credit Jockey Arthur Feindel, the camera operator, as the cinematographer because of that.- Born in 1892 in Breslau, Silesia (now Wroclaw, Poland) Richthofen was the son of a hereditary baron. A daredevil for life, he was an avid hunter and mountain climber. With Germany's entrance into WW1 in 1914, Richthofen mobilized in a Silesian cavalry unit, and survived the first battle of Verdun in 1915. Soon after, he transferred to the Luftwaffe (Imperial German Air Force) as a bombardier. By 1916, however, he was tapped for training in the then-new art of fighter combat, flying an Albatros D.2 in March, 1916. By the end of 1916, Richthofen was a certified ace, having downed over 20 aircraft, including the number one British ace up to that time, Maj. Lanoe Hawker. Due to his tally, Richthofen earned the medal "Pour le Merite" (yes, the official name's in French) in December 1916. Throughout the rest of the war, the legend of the Red Baron continued to grow, as did his kill tally, officially reaching 80 kills in April 1918. On April 21 of that year, Richthofen led a routine strafing mission against the British trenches in the Somme region and was killed with a single .303 bullet to the chest, most likely fired from the ground.
- Thekla Carola Wied was born on 5 February 1944 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. She is an actress, known for Ich heirate eine Familie... (1983), Spur eines Mädchens (1967) and Wie gut, daß es Maria gibt (1990). She has been married to Hannes Rieckhoff since 1992.