Gustaw Holoubek

Gustav Holoubek (* April 21, 1923 in Krakow, † March 6, 2008 in Warsaw) was a Polish actor, film and theater director and instructor.

Life

Holoubek was an only child of a Czech who married a Polish widow from Krakow after the First World War and then settled in Poland. Gustav Holoubek joined in 1939 as a volunteer in the Polish army and fought against the Polish campaign of September 1939. He was in the POW camp in Magdeburg and Thorn and was released in 1940. In captivity, he contracted tuberculosis. Until 1945 he worked in Kraków gasworks.

In 1947 he completed his studies at the Higher School of Theatre in Krakow. Already on 1 March 1947, he debuted in the Old National Theatre in Krakow. His debut as a film actor was in 1953 in the film Żołnierz Zwycięstwa ( Soldier of Victory). Then you could him, inter alia, in the movies Prawo i pięść, see club Profesora Tutki and Marysia i Napoleon. Later, the film director career matters worse, he turned and Others Spóźnieni przechodnie and Mazepa, and eventually he became a professor at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw.

Gustav Holoubek was last married to actress Magdalena Zawadzka and was with her one son. From his previous marriages with Danuta Maria Kwiatkowska and Wachowiak he ever had a daughter.

Filmography (selection)

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