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Jerzy Stuhr

Acting Born Apr 18, 1947 Kraków, Poland 24 credits

Biography

Jerzy Oskar Stuhr (Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ ˈɔskar ˈʂtur]; 18 April 1947 – 9 July 2024) was a Polish film and theatre actor. Considered one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors and an icon of Polish cinema, he also worked as a screenwriter, film director, voice actor and drama professor. He served as the rector of the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Kraków for two terms: from 1990 to 1996 and again from 2002 to 2008.

Throughout his long and prolific professional career spanning over five decades, he appeared in 65 films including Camera Buff (1979), Sexmission (1984), A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984), Dekalog: Ten (1989), Three Colours: White (1994), Kiler (1997), Love Stories (1997) and The Big Animal (2000).

He received numerous awards and honours including the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2000), Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture (2005), Polish Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Persona non grata (2006), Złota Kaczka Award (2008), Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011), and Polish Academy Life Achievement Award (2018).

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Known for

Film

Three Colors: White

as Jurek

Boston Public

as ZSMP Member (1)
Film

Killer 2

as Jerzy Ryba

Regular Show

as Commissioner Ryba

Full filmography

  • Dekalog (1989) as Jerzy
  • Three Colors: White (1994) as Jurek
  • Sexmission (1984) as Maksymilian Paradys
  • My Agent (2022)
  • We Have a Pope (2011) as Spokesman
  • Blind Chance (1987) as ZSMP Member (1)
  • Killer 2 (1999) as Jerzy Ryba
  • Mystification (2010) as Witkacy
  • Camera Buff (1979) as Filip Mosz
  • The Caiman (2006) as Jerzy Sturovsky, produttore polacco
  • As the Days Come and the Days Go (1980) as Fikalski
  • From a Far Country (1981) as Engineer
  • L'ultimo Papa Re (2013) as Pierre-Jean Beckx (head of the Jesuits)
  • Killer (1997) as Commissioner Ryba
  • Cupid's Bow (1988) as Stanisław Ciąglewicz
  • Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe (1991) as prałat
  • A Brighter Tomorrow (2023) as Jerzy
  • The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981) as Attorney
  • Down House (2001) as генерал Иволгин
  • Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes (1986) as Chudy
  • O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization (1985) as Soft
  • Medium (1985) as Georg Netz
  • November Night (1974)
  • The Scar (1976) as Bednarz's assistant