Mieczysław Czechowicz (28 September 1930 in
Lublin
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– 14 September 1991 in
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...
) was a Polish actor, one of the most famous of all time.
Career
A graduate of Warsaw's State Theatrical Academy (
Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna), Czechowicz played in numerous films, plays and cabarets. He worked for the
National Theatre as well as other Warsaw theatres.
He featured in the 1965 film ''
Three Steps on Earth''.
In 1987 he was awarded the
Polonia Restituta. As a movie actor, he played in such productions, as
Janosik (TV series)
''Janosik'' is a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Gorals, Goral outlaw (named after, but not actually the legendary Slovaks, Slovak Juraj Jánošík) who in folk legends, like Robin Hood, steals money and goods ...
,
Czterej Pancerni i Pies,
Lalka,
The Tin Drum
''The Tin Drum'' (, ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy. It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.
To "beat a ti ...
, and comedies by
Stanisław Bareja. Czechowicz's voice is known by almost all kids in Poland, as he voiced the friendly teddy bear in a popular animation
Miś Uszatek
Miś Uszatek(Polish language, Polish: ''Miś Uszatek''), in English rendered as Teddy Drop Ear, also spelled as Teddy Drop-Ear, and known as Teddy Floppy Ear is a Polish animated television series produced by Se-ma-for from 1975 to 1987, for a to ...
.
References
External links
Filmography of Czechowicz
1930 births
1991 deaths
Male actors from Lublin
Polish male film actors
Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1944–1989)
Polish cabaret performers
20th-century Polish male actors
Polish male television actors
20th-century Polish comedians
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