Aleksander Zelwerowicz
Aleksander Zelwerowicz (14 August 1877 in Lublin – 18 June 1955 in Warsaw) was a Polish actor, director, theatre president and a teacher. He received the Order of Polonia Restituta and is one of the Polish Righteous among the Nations.[1]
Aleksander Zelwerowicz as Figaro in The Barber of Seville by Pierre Beaumarchais at the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Kraków
Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy is named after him.
He is buried at the Powązki Cemetery.
Selected filmography
- Obrona Częstochowy (1913)
- Ochrana warszawska i jej tajemnice (1916)
- Huragan (1928)
- Księżna Łowicka (1932)
- Dzieje grzechu (1933)
- Serce matki (1938)
- Wrzos (1938)
- Doctor Murek (1939)
- The Three Hearts (1939)
External links
- (in Polish) Olga Katafiasz, Legendy polskiego teatru - Aleksander Zelwerowicz, Dziennik Teatralny, 25 July 2001
References
- Aleksander Zelwerowicz - his activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust, at Yad Vashem website
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