Shmuel Shilo
Shmuel Shilo; (Hebrew שמואל שילה; born December 1, 1929 in Luck, Poland; † 4 October 2011 at Kibbutz Tze'elim, Israel) was an Israeli actor and director.
Life
Shilo succeeded in August 1942 the massacre of the Jewish inhabitants of his native city by the Einsatzgruppe C under the command of Paul Blobel to escape and hide for several months in a Polish family. In December 1942 he was arrested, but he managed to escape and then to dive with Polish partisans from the labor camp. After the conquest of the region by the Red Army in 1944, he emigrated to Israel and served during the Palestine War in the Palmach.
After the establishment of Israel, he worked as a stage actor at various theaters as in Be'er Sheva, where he also worked as a director and stage works such as Waiting for Godot, Zorba, The Miser, Romeo and Juliet and Tevye the milkman staged.
In the early 1980s he also took roles as a film actor and made his debut in 1981 in Sipur intimates by Nadav Levitan. Other better-known films were Noa Bat 17 (1982) and Yaldei Stalin (1986 ), but also a guest appearance on Sesame Street. Also in 1986 founded Shilo the theater of the Negev, remained until 1997, its Artistic Director and was still playing leading roles in 2010 in two pieces. In 2011 he was in the role of " Herman " in Hearat Shulayim by Joseph Cedar 's last of a total of 17 film appearances.
Twice he won the Best Actor Award of the Israel Academy of Film and Television, and once the Golden Hedgehog for his contribution to Israeli fringe theater.