Gustaw Teofil Holoubek (21 April 1923 – 6 March 2008)
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, member of the Polish Sejm, and a senator
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Holoubek participated in the September Campaign
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and was a prisoner of war
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during the Nazi German
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. His father was a Czech
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immigrant who settled in Poland after the First World War
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, and his mother was Polish
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Holoubek had his first role as an actor in 1947, thus beginning his lifelong career in theatre and film in Poland and abroad. His political career began in 1976, when he was elected to the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish Parliament
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. He was re-elected in 1980, but resigned in 1981 when martial law
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was declared. In 1989, he was elected to the Senate, the upper house. That same year, he took a position as a professor at the Academy of Theatre in Warsaw. Holoubek was a recipient of the Order of Polonia Restituta
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(Knight's Cross, Commander's Cross with Star, Grand Cross).
Selected filmography
*1953: '' The Soldier of Victory'' (''Żołnierz zwycięstwa'') - Feliks Dzierzynski
*1955: ''Blekitny krzyz'' - Narrator (voice)
*1956: ''Tajemnica dzikiego szybu'' - Class teacher Sadej
*1958: '' The Noose'' (''Pętla'') - Kuba Kowalski
*1958: '' Farewells'' (''Pożegnania'') - Mirek
*1959: ''Bialy niedzwiedz'' - Henryk Fogiel
*1960: '' Wspólny pokój'' (''Roomers'') - Dziadzia
*1960: ''Kolorowe ponczochy'' - Educator
*1961: ''Marysia i krasnoludki''
*1961: '' Rozstanie'' (''Goodbye to the Past'')
*1961: ''Time Past'' (''Czas przeszły'') - Von steinhagen
*1961: ''Story of the Golden Boot''(''Historia żółtej ciżemki'') - Wit Stwosz
*1962: ''Opening Tomorrow'' (''Jutro premiera'') - Zenon Wiewiórski
*1962: ''Spóznieni przechodnie'' - Edward (segment "Czas przybliza, czas oddala")
*1962: ''Slantzeto i syankata'' - Znamenitiyat aktyor
*1962: '' Cafe from the Past'' (''Spotkanie w "Bajce"'') - Doctor Pawel
*1963: ''Gangsters and Philanthropists'' (''Gangsterzy i filantropi'') - Professor
*1963: ''Yesterday in Fact'' (''Naprawdę wczoraj'') - Captain Stolyp
*1964: '' The Law and the Fist'' (''Prawo i piesc'') - Andrzej Kenig
*1965: ''The Saragossa Manuscript
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'' (''Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie'') - Don Pedro Velasquez
*1965: '' Salto'' - Host
*1965: ''The Moment of Peace'' (''Les rideaux blancs'')
*1966: '' Maria and Napoleon'' (''Marysia i Napoleon'') - Napoleon Bonaparte - Napoleon Beranger
*1969: ''Pan Wolodyjowski''
*1969: ''Gra'' - Husband
*1970: ''Salt of the Black Earth
''Salt of the Black Earth'' ( pl, Sól ziemi czarnej) is a Polish historical film that takes place during the Second Silesian Uprising. It was directed by Kazimierz Kutz and released in 1970. The film was selected as the Polish entry for the Bes ...
'' (''Sól ziemi czarnej'') - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
*1971: ''Pejzaz z bohaterem'' - Rafal Wilczewski, History Teacher
*1971: ''Dzieciol'' - Thief (voice, uncredited)
*1971: '' Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment'' (''Goya – oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis'') - Bermudez
*1972: ''How Far, How Near'' (''Jak daleko stad, jak blisko'') - Maks
*1973: '' The Hour-Glass Sanatorium'' (''Sanatorium pod klepsydrą'') - Dr. Gotard
*1978: ''A Room with a View on the Se'' (''Pokój z widokiem na morze'') - Profesor Jan Leszczynski
*1978: ''Hospital of the Transfiguration'' (''Szpital przemienienia'') - Writer Zygmunt Sekulowski
*1981: ''W bialy dzien'' - Judge
*1981: ''Childish Questions'' (''Dziecinne Pytania'') - Professor
*1982: ''Limuzyna Daimler-Benz'' - Maks Felinski, Michal's Godfather
*1983: '' An Uneventful Story'' (''Nieciekawa historia'') - Professor
*1984: ''W starym dworku czyli niepodleglosc trójkatów'' - Tadeusz
*1985: ''Zabicie ciotki''
*1985: ''Write and Fight
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'' (''Pismak'') - Investigator
*1986: '' Jezioro Bodenskie'' - Roullot
*1986: ''Siegfried'' (''Zygfryd'') - Stefan Drawicz
*1986: ''Weryfikacja'' - Gucio Nawrot
*1988: ''Niezwykla podróz Baltazara Kobera'' - (voice)
*1989: ''A Tale of Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve'
''A Tale of Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve ( pl, Lawa. Opowieść o 'Dziadach' Adama Mickiewicza) is a 1989 Polish drama film directed by Tadeusz Konwicki. It was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival.
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* Gustaw Hol ...
'' (''Lawa. Opowiesc o 'Dziadach' Adama Mickiewicza'') - Hermit / Ghost / Gustaw-Konrad / Poet
*1990: ''The Master and Margarita
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'' (''Mistrz i Małgorzata'') (TV Series) - Woland
*1994: ''Oczy niebieskie'' - Profesor Ani i Jacka
*1995: ''Awantura o Basie'' - Professor Somer
*1997: ''Ksiega wielkich zyczen'' - Adam Ostrowski
*1999: ''With Fire and Sword
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'' (''Ogniem i mieczem'') - Senator Kisiel
*2000: '' A Very Christmas Story'' (''Świąteczna przygoda'') - Good (voice)
*2001: ''Listy milosne'' - Teresa's Father
References
External links
Gustaw Holoubek
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1923 births
2008 deaths
Male actors from Kraków
People from Kraków Voivodeship (1919–1939)
Polish people of Czech descent
Members of the Polish Sejm 1976–1980
Members of the Polish Sejm 1980–1985
Members of the Senate of Poland 1989–1991
Polish theatre directors
Polish male stage actors
Polish male film actors
Polish male voice actors
20th-century Polish male actors
Members of the Polish Academy of Learning
Polish military personnel of World War II
Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1944–1989)
Recipients of the Order of the Banner of Work
Grand Crosses of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Recipients of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis
Recipients of the Pro Memoria Medal
Politicians from Kraków
Recipients of the State Award Badge (Poland)
Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland)