Eugeniusz Bodo

Eugeniusz Bodo (actually Eugène Junod Bogdan, born December 28, 1899 in Geneva, † October 7, 1943 in Kotlas, Soviet Union ) was one of the most popular Polish actors and film directors of the interwar period.

Life

He was born the only son of the Swiss engineer Theodore Junod ( Calvinist ) and the Pole Anna Dylewska ( Catholic) probably in Geneva ( others claim in Warsaw) and retained throughout his life the Swiss citizenship. The family moved in 1910 to Lodz, where his father, the Revue Cinema " Urania " opened. 1917 Junod moved to to Poznan and became a member of the local Apollo Theater. In 1919 he went with his new name provided ( he made ​​it from the first two letters of his middle name and from which his mother Dorota ) to Warsaw to play in various musical theaters. Individual roles, he also played at the city's Teatr Polski and at the Teatr Lutnia in Vilnius.

With the rise of talkies Bodo launched a new career. In about 30 strips, V.A. Music films, he worked with until 1939. In the thirties, he received several honors, including as the "King of the Polish actor ". He used his cinematic successes in the financial field. He founded in 1931 the film studio B.W.B. with and opened two years later, his own production company entitled Urania. In the spring of 1939 he opened his colleague Mieczysław Fogg own café in Warsaw. Once this was under German occupation to a Wehrmacht Café " for German " converted, he rented it and fled to the Soviet-occupied Lvov, where still existed a Polish cultural scene. There, he worked at the renowned jazz band Tea of the composer and bandleader Henryk Wars, which was to later make a career in Hollywood. In June 1941 he was arrested by the NKVD and deported despite his Swiss passport to the Gulag. The pass also prevented him fell under the amnesty for Polish citizens in the USSR as a result of the Sikorski - Majski Agreement. Through various prisons he was sent to a camp near the town of Kotlas, where he died in the fall of 1943. This fact contradicted the version at the time of the People's Republic of Poland, while it was claimed there that Bodo was shot by the Germans after they invaded in Lviv.

Movies

  • Rywale (as genius ) 1925
  • Czerwony BLAZEN 1926
  • Uśmiech losu ( as a revue dancer) 1927
  • Człowiek o błękitnej duszy ( as a sculptor ) 1929
  • Policmajster Tagiejew (as Markowskij ) 1929
  • Cult Ciała (as Franciszek, Czesławs helper ) 1930
  • Well Sybir ( as a worker ) 1930
  • Niebezpieczny romans ( as head of a gang of burglars ) 1930
  • Uroda życia (1930 ) (as Roszow ) 1930
  • Bezimienni bohaterowie ( as a police captain ) 1932
  • Głos pustyni (as Sheikh Abdullah ) 1932
  • Jego ekscelencja Subiekt (as Jurek, the main role ) 1933
  • Zabawka (as Kuźma, son of a forest worker ) 1933
  • Czarna perła (as Stefan ) 1934
  • Czy Lucyna to dziewczyna? ( as an engineer Stefan Zarnowski ) 1934
  • Kocha lubi, szanuje ( as a pharmacy intern Władysław ) 1934
  • Pieśniarz Warszawy (as Julian ) 1934
  • Jaśnie pan szofer (as Boratyński ) 1935
  • Amerykańska awantura ( Paweł ) 1936
  • Książątko (as Tadeusz Rolski ) 1937
  • Piętro wyżej ( as a radio announcer Henryk pączek ) 1937
  • Skłamałam (as Karol Borowicz ) 1937
  • Paweł i Gaweł ( Paweł ) 1938
  • I Robert Bertrand ( as Bertrand ) 1938
  • Strachy (as Zygmunt Modecki ) 1938
  • Za winy niepopełnione (as Torrence, Holskis friend and partner ) 1938
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