Acting

Leon Niemczyk

Born December 15, 1923 · Warsaw, Poland

Died November 29, 2006 · aged 82

Leon Stanisław Niemczyk (15 December 1923 – 29 November 2006) was a Polish actor. Niemczyk appeared in over 500 films and television shows over the course of his very long career. His most memorable roles were Fulko de Lorche in Aleksander Ford's The Teutonic Knights and Andrzej in Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leon Niemczyk, licensed under CC-…

Known For

Inland Empire

Inland Empire · 2006

MovieHorrorThriller

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.

Night Train

Night Train · 1959

Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.

The Saragossa Manuscript

The Saragossa Manuscript · 1966

The Saragossa Manuscript

MovieFantasyMystery

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

Knife in the Water

Knife in the Water · 1962

Knife in the Water

MovieDramaThriller

On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. Inviting the young man onto the boat with them, Andrzej begins to subtly torment him; the hitchhiker responds by making overtures toward Krystyna. When the hitchhiker is accidentally knocked overboard, the husband's panic results in unexpected consequences.

The Island on Bird Street

The Island on Bird Street · 1997

The Island on Bird Street

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.

The Curse of Snake Valley

The Curse of Snake Valley · 1988

The Curse of Snake Valley

MovieAdventureScience Fiction

The trio of adventurous pals, a man who is a scientist, a fine lady and a former military pilot are in the Indochina jungles looking for some mysterious vase that holds a metal container that is of no mundane origin.

Vabank

MovieCrimeComedy

October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in crime, backstabbing and double-crossing Kramer. Kwinto designs a clever plan not to only rob the Kramer's bank but to make it look like Kramer himself did it.

Smażalnia Story

Smażalnia Story · 1985

Smażalnia Story

Filmography

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Inland Empire

Inland Empire · 2006

MovieHorrorThriller

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.

Marek

Night Train

Night Train · 1959

Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.

Jerzy

The Saragossa Manuscript

The Saragossa Manuscript · 1966

The Saragossa Manuscript

MovieFantasyMystery

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

Don Avadoro

Knife in the Water

Knife in the Water · 1962

Knife in the Water

MovieDramaThriller

On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. Inviting the young man onto the boat with them, Andrzej begins to subtly torment him; the hitchhiker responds by making overtures toward Krystyna. When the hitchhiker is accidentally knocked overboard, the husband's panic results in unexpected consequences.

Andrzej

The Island on Bird Street

The Island on Bird Street · 1997

The Island on Bird Street

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.

Podolski

The Curse of Snake Valley

The Curse of Snake Valley · 1988

The Curse of Snake Valley

MovieAdventureScience Fiction

The trio of adventurous pals, a man who is a scientist, a fine lady and a former military pilot are in the Indochina jungles looking for some mysterious vase that holds a metal container that is of no mundane origin.

Man with Black Glasses

Vabank

MovieCrimeComedy

October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in crime, backstabbing and double-crossing Kramer. Kwinto designs a clever plan not to only rob the Kramer's bank but to make it look like Kramer himself did it.

Jubiler

Smażalnia Story

Smażalnia Story · 1985

Smażalnia Story

Gminny architekt

In the Dust of the Stars

In the Dust of the Stars · 1976

In the Dust of the Stars

MovieScience Fiction

A radio signal attracts a team of astronauts to a mysterious planet. Once there, they are warmly welcomed by an alien race, but are soon suspicious of what is really occurring on this strange land.

Thob

O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization

O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization · 1985

O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization

MovieDramaScience Fiction

The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a shepherd for the last remnants of humanity who have gathered together as they await rescue from a mysterious craft known only as 'The Ark.' He wanders among the masses, performing his regular daily tasks; keeping morale from plummeting, wooing prostitutes, squashing rebellions, and sometimes feeding the hungry. But as the true and sinister nature of 'The Dome' comes to light, Soft must ask himself if humanity is worth saving...

Sleek

First Pavilion

First Pavilion · 1968

MovieScience FictionTV Movie

A young scientist is kidnapped and taken to a house where his former mentor, a professor, is conducting experiments on shrinking humans.

President

Apache

MovieWesternAdventure

The story of Ulzana, an Apache chief who has reached a rapprochement with the local Mexican population and generously extends it to whites who travel through the territory. His people have become inured to the treacherous ways of the white man, however, and are now reliant on them for booze, 'relief flour' and beef steak.

Ramon

Boys Don't Cry

Boys Don't Cry · 2000

MovieComedyCrime

A young aspiring violinist unwittingly becomes involved with a criminal gang.

'Król Sedesów'

In Love

In Love · 2000

MovieRomanceComedy

Zosia is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl. No man can resist her charm; they are all ready to abandon their entire previous way of life for her and shower her with gifts, just to win the heart of this enchanting young woman. She skillfully exploits her seductive gifts, all the more so because she herself has never yet felt the love her hapless admirers lavish upon her. But everything has its limit. When she meets Mateusz, she discovers what it truly means to love.

Priest

A Very Polish Practice

A Very Polish Practice · 1992

A Very Polish Practice

MovieDramaComedy

Screen One movie that is a continuation of Andrew Davies' brilliant series A Very Peculiar Practice. Dr. Daker feels finally settled in his life in Poland with his new wife and son, but he soon find things to be just as tumultuous, not least because Bob Buzzard is still around. And is that those nuns again?

Priest

The Deluge

The Deluge · 1974

MovieHistoryAdventure

During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.

Charles X Gustav of Sweden

Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes

Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes · 1986

Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes

MovieScience FictionComedy

Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'volunteer' for the exploration of far-away planets. Landing on planet Australia 458, he is given a hero's welcome with all the sex, booze, and violence that any one man can stomach. But as his new caretakers push him towards even more heinous and deplorable acts, Scope finds that his freedom comes with a high price; his own violent demise, broadcast live for the viewing pleasure of Australia 458's inhabitants.

TV Showman

Knights of the Teutonic Order

Knights of the Teutonic Order · 1960

Knights of the Teutonic Order

MovieAdventureDrama

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.

Fulko de Lorche

Warsaw: Year 5703

Warsaw: Year 5703 · 1992

Warsaw: Year 5703

In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with undeveloped photos of the horrors within, makes his way to a supposedly safe apartment only to find it occupied by Germans. Another tenant, a pole Stephania, abruptly offers to shelter him in her spacious apartment. She comforts him and they make love that very night. Stefania is uncommonly generous and willing to jeopardize her own safety by hiding a Jew. She even goes to a nearby church and rescues Fryda. But Fryda is ungrateful and proceeds to sabotage the trio's safety in insidious ways.

Officier

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober · 1988

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober

MovieDramaFantasy

Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself.

(voice)

The Hijacking of 'Savoy'

The Hijacking of 'Savoy' · 1979

The Hijacking of 'Savoy'

MovieAdventureFamily

Polish schoolboy Janek, and Russian girl Tanya are traveling by a plane which ended up in the hands of a gang of drug dealers headed by ex Nazi criminal Henrich Scharf.

Berget

Listy miłosne

Listy miłosne · 2001

MovieDramaRomance

Thirty-year-old nurse Teresa spends her days caring for elderly, dying people. Janusz, a young man she met at an amusement park, enters the life of this bitter and disillusioned woman. Teresa doesn't have the courage to tell him how she feels, and he also has trouble expressing his emotions. They are helped by Julka, a girl from the neighborhood who likes Teresa. She finds a pile of love letters from the beginning of the century in the trash. By forging Teresa and Janusz's handwriting, she starts a love correspondence between them, rewriting fragments of other people's confessions.

Boarding House Owner

Deserter's Gold

Deserter's Gold · 1998

Deserter's Gold

MovieComedyHistory

"Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mission is to rob a Nazi-run bank in Poland for gold that will buy military supplies for the Polish Underground.

żandarm (sekwencja z filmu "C.K. Dezerterzy")

Daens

MovieDramaHistory

Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.

Commission Member

Polizeiruf 110

Polizeiruf 110 · 1971

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Petzold

NET Playhouse

NET Playhouse · 1966

SeriesDramaFamily

NET Playhouse is an American dramatic television anthology series produced by National Educational Television. NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service. American television anthology series of wide range of genres, from history and drama, to fantasy, and science fiction. Fiction novels, stories, stage plays, fairytales, and historic events are dramatized in each episode.

Andrzej

Spellbinder

Spellbinder · 1995

SeriesFamilySci-Fi & Fantasy

A group of teenagers go on a school camp in the Blue Mountains in Australia. While at the camp, Paul Reynolds accidentally goes into a parallel universe. This other world is inhabited by a more hierarchic and technologically different society, ruled by a group of people known as Spellbinders.

Trom

Ranczo

SeriesComedyDrama

Ranczo ["Ranch"] is a Polish television comedy series, directed by Wojciech Adamczyk, that has aired since March 2006 on TVP1. It follows the story of Lucy Wilska, a Polish-American who has inherited her grandmother's country home in the fictional small town of Wilkowyje. She arrives in Wilkowyje intent on selling the cottage but, after seeing the charm of the village, decides to stay.

Japycz

13 posterunek

13 posterunek · 1997

Biznesmen

Calling 07

Calling 07 · 1976

SeriesDramaCrime

The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.

Leon Skotnicki, dyrektor „Elbawu”

More Than Life At Stake

More Than Life At Stake · 1968

More Than Life At Stake

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

A series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.

Rioletto / Kapitan Boldt (głos) (niewymieniony w czołówce)

Theatre Macabre

Theatre Macabre · 1971

Theatre Macabre

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyMystery

Horror legend Christopher Lee hosts this anthology in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, each half-hour episode adapting a story from a classic author, with tales by Edgar Allen Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde.

W labiryncie

W labiryncie · 1988

Józef Stopczyk

Życie na gorąco

Życie na gorąco · 1979

Życie na gorąco

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

pułkownik Dario Lucas, funkcjonariusz policji z Malavity

Blisko, coraz bliżej

Blisko, coraz bliżej · 1983

Blisko, coraz bliżej

SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama

The story stretches from 1863 to 1945. Its main characters are representatives of the Pasternik family, who live in the fictional village of Wielowice near Pszczyna. The protagonist of the first three episodes is Franciszek Pasternik, the following parts tell about the fate of his many children and even more grandchildren. The viewer follows their history against the backdrop of great changes and historical events that influenced the lives of Silesian Poles. So there is the Kulturkampf, Prussian rugi, the revolution of 1905, World War I and the Silesian Uprisings.

Manfred Wehlinger

Kuchnia polska

Kuchnia polska · 1993

Ignacy Feureisen, urzędnik ministerstwa BP

Kapitan Sowa na tropie

Kapitan Sowa na tropie · 1965

Kapitan Sowa na tropie

SeriesMysteryCrime

Kapitan Sowa na tropie is a Polish series from 1965 directed by Stanisław Bareja. It was the first Polish criminal series made after World War II.

podróżnik Krzysztof Małecki

Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria

Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria · 1987

Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria

Love, intrigue, favouritism and corruption at the Dresdner Hof.

Mentzel

Karino

The horse Karino is born during winter and when his mother dies, a young woman starts to care for the helpless foal. Their adventures together are followed during the years to come, from the age of a newborn to the time when Karino’s a full-grown competition horse.

Jabłecki, trener na Służewcu

Gdansk '39

Gdansk '39 · 1989

On the eve of World War II, Polish families are getting ready to defend the city.

Lieutant

Vera - Der schwere Weg der Erkenntnis

Vera - Der schwere Weg der Erkenntnis · 1989

Vera - Der schwere Weg der Erkenntnis

Vera is Secretary at NATO Headquarters in Brussels. During a business trip to the USA, she learns that US nuclear missiles are to be stationed in Western Europe.

Życie Kamila Kuranta

Życie Kamila Kuranta · 1983

Życie Kamila Kuranta

Adaptation of several autobiographical novels by Zbigniew Uniłowski, a well-known writer of the interwar period: "Common Room", "Recruit Day", "Twenty Years of Life". The first three episodes are a story about the maturation of a teenage boy in a poor urban environment. The next ones show an adult hero who tries to become a writer.

Julian Wercman

Hrabina Cosel

Hrabina Cosel · 1969

Hrabia Lecherenne

Archives of Death

Archives of Death · 1980

Archives of Death

SeriesWar & Politics

Archiv des Todes is a 1980 13-part television series German war television film series set during World War II.

Janek

Przyłbice i kaptury

Przyłbice i kaptury · 1986

Przyłbice i kaptury

SeriesAction & AdventureWar & Politics

Visa für Ocantros

Visa für Ocantros · 1974

Visa für Ocantros

In the troubled state of Ocantros, the prime minister is assassinated. Martin Katrup, who is responsible for setting up a large printing plant, is also on the island at this time. A short time later, two of his colleagues disappear without a trace and Katrup sets off in search of them. The situation is exacerbated when the secret service tries everything in its power to spark a coup and a civil war.

Oberst Skindara

Szaleństwa panny Ewy

Szaleństwa panny Ewy · 1985

Szaleństwa panny Ewy

pan Zawiłowski, ojciec Basi

Präriejäger in Mexiko

Präriejäger in Mexiko · 1988

Präriejäger in Mexiko

SeriesWesternAction & Adventure

Mexico in the 1870s. The French expeditionary force lands in Mexico. Emperor Napoleon III of France and local conservatives establish a monarchy in the country and decide to place their protégé, Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg, on the Mexican throne. In the ensuing war of national liberation, the freedom-loving Indians, the Maztecs, led by their chief Bear's Eye, side with the legitimate deposed president of Mexico, Benito Juárez.

Pablo Cortejo