Jerzy Moes (Jerzy Michal Moes; 29 September 1935 – 27 April 2019) was a Polish

film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...

and

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. Moes was born in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

, the sixth son of ten children of Aleksander Moes and his wife Barbara Sobańska (

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). He is also the grandson of Aleksander Juliusz Moes (1856–1928), a Polish landowner and industrialist from

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, and a nephew of

Władysław Moes Władysław Gerard Jan Nepomuk Marya Moes (17 November 1900 – 17 December 1986) was a Polish landowner and has been claimed as the inspiration for the character Tadzio in Thomas Mann’s novella ''Death in Venice'', which was filmed as ''Death ...

(1900–1986).

Selected filmography

* ''

Lotna ''Lotna'' is a 1959 Polish war film directed by Andrzej Wajda. Overview This highly symbolic film is both the director's tribute to the long and glorious history of the Polish cavalry, as well as a more ambiguous portrait of the passing of an era ...

'' (1959) * ''

How I Unleashed World War II ''How I Unleashed World War II'' ( pl, Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową) is a Polish feature film made in 1969, based on Kazimierz Sławiński's novel "''Przygody kanoniera Dolasa''" (''The Adventures of Dolas the Cannoneer''). It wa ...

'' (1970) * '' Dzieciol'' (1971)

Bibliography

* Mazierska, Ewa & Ostrowska, Elżbieta. ''Women in Polish Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2006.

References

External links

* 1935 births 2019 deaths Polish male film actors Polish male stage actors Male actors from Warsaw 20th-century Polish male actors {{Poland-actor-stub