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Jerzy Skolimowski profile
Actor

Jerzy Skolimowski

Directing

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Acting credits

32

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TMDB popularity

0.4

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Movies: 52Series: 6Crew credits: 37

TMDB ID: 43553

IMDb ID: nm0804592

Known for: Directing

Born: May 5, 1938

Age: 87

Place of birth: Łódź, Poland

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1960 - 2026

Years active: 67

Average TMDB rating: 6.26

Wikidata: Q51530

Also known as

Γιέρζι Σκολιμόφσκι • J. Skolimowski • Ежи Сколимовский • 예지 스콜리모프스키 • Єжи Сколімовський

Other jobs

Director (17)Screenplay (7)Producer (4)Writer (3)Thanks (2)Art Direction (1)Co-Producer (1)Dialogue (1)

Biography

Jerzy Skolimowski (Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ skɔliˈmɔfskʲi]; born 5 May 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist, actor and painter. Beginning as a screenwriter for Andrzej Wajda's Innocent Sorcerers (1960), Skolimowski has made more than twenty films since his directorial debut The Menacing Eye (1960). In 1967 he was awarded the Golden Bear prize for his Belgian film The Departure (1967). Among his other notable films is Deep End (1970), starring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown as well as The Shout, starring Alan Bates, Susannah York and John Hurt, Moonlighting (1982), starring Jeremy Irons and Essential Killing, starring Vincent Gallo He lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and occasionally acted in films. He returned to Poland, and to filmmaking as a writer and director, after a 17-year hiatus with Four Nights with Anna (2008). He received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. His film EO (2022) was awarded the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.

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