Tadeusz Łomnicki

Tadeusz Łomnicki ( born July 28, 1927 in Podhajce near Lemberg, † February 22, 1992 in Poznań ) was a Polish actor.

Life

Tadeusz Łomnicki began his acting training in 1945 at the drama school Teatr Stary in Krakow of. The talented actor was allowed to sit the examination actresses in the same year and entered 1946, his first engagement in Katowice. A year later he returned to Cracow, where he played in two major theaters before he was hired in 1949 by Erwin Axer at the Teatr Współczesny in Warsaw. He belonged until 1974 to the ensemble of the theater. In addition, he began in the 1950s studying directing at the State Drama School PWST in Warsaw, he was later rector from 1970 to 1981. His diploma as a director, he took off in 1954. In addition to his work in the theater Axers he played from 1950 in numerous films and as a guest at the Polish National Theater in Warsaw.

As the socialist regime esteemed actor who was, moreover Party member, he got in 1976 the opportunity to own new theater building. So the Teatr na Woli in Warsaw, which he headed until 1981 was formed. Two days after the declaration of martial law in December 1981 by General Wojciech Jaruzelski, he returned his party card. He was then only in short engagements at the Teatr Polski in Warsaw and Teatr Studio, but worked from the 1980s, particularly as an actor at various theaters and played in movies.

Łomnicki was considered the most important and respected actors in the Polish theater and film, which in the 1950s were given the highest honors Polish. Numerous film roles he took, were among the classics of Polish cinema. His outstanding film role was the title role in the Henryk Sienkiewicz - film adaptation of the third part of the trilogy Pan Pan Michael. He died in 1992 during rehearsals for King Lear at the Teatr Nowy in Poznań. He kicked off with a Lear monologue from the stage and died in his dressing room of a heart attack.

Important roles in the theater

Filmography (selection)

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