Zdzisław Maklakiewicz (9 July 1927 in

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– 9 October 1977) was a Polish actor. He was the nephew of composers

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and Tadeusz Maklakiewicz.

Biography

During World War II, Maklakiewicz served in the

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. He took part in the

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(using the pseudonym of "Hanzen"), fighting in the city center as a gunner in the motorized company "Iskra" battalion "Kiliński". After the capitulation of Warsaw, he was taken to a German POW camp (Stalag XVIII-C Markt Pongau, no POW: 105022), from where he returned to Poland in September 1945. In 1947 he began studying acting in Kraków, then in the Theatre Academy in Warsaw, graduating in 1950. He tried to study directing, but did not complete these studies. He was an actor in the Theatre Syrena, the

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, and the

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. From 1958 to 1962, he was an actor in the Coastal Theatre in Gdansk. From 1962 to 1964, he was also an actor in the Chamber Theatre and in the Polish Theatre in Wroclaw. In 1967-69 - the

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, and in the seventies, the

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and the

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. He married Polish actor Renata Firek, with whom he had a daughter, Marta. In many movies, he played together with and

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, with whom he was close friends. Maklakiewicz suffered from alcohol abuse. In October 1977, while intoxicated, he was beaten in the vicinity of the

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in Warsaw by

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. He died a few days after the beating. On 2 August 2009, former Polish president

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posthumously awarded Maklakiewicz the Officer's Cross of the

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for outstanding contributions to the independence of the Polish Republic and for his achievements in the activities for the development of Polish culture.Informacja na stroni
Prezydenta RP
– 2009-08-02.

References

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