Roman Polanski with Crystal Globe (Photo/wiki)
Roman Raymond Polanski is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor. Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated Academy Award-winning director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown (1974).
Roman Polanski is one of the world's best known contemporary film directors and is widely considered as one of the greatest directors of his time.
Polanski has continued to direct films in Europe, including Frantic (1988), Death and the Maiden (1994), The Ninth Gate (1999), the Academy Award-winning (for best director) and Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or-winning The Pianist (2002), and Oliver Twist (2005). He has also done occasional work in theatre and in the films of other directors.
Polanski and rising actress Sharon Tate shortly before filming The Fearless Vampire Killers, and during the production the two of them began dating. On January 20, 1968, Polanski married Sharon Tate in London.
In his autobiography, Polanski described his brief time with Tate as the best years of his life. During this period, he also became friends with martial-arts master and actor Bruce Lee.
In the early 1950s, Polanski took up acting, appearing in Andrzej Wajda's film Pokolenie (A Generation) (1954) and in the same year in Silik Sternfeld's Zaczarowany rower (known in English as Enchanted Bicycle or Magical Bicycle).
Polanski's directorial debut was in 1955 with a short film Rower (known as Bicycle, not to be confused with Zaczarowany rower). Several other short films made during his studies gained him considerable recognition, particularly Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) and When Angels Fall (1959).
Polanski's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water, was also the first significant Polish film after WWII that did not have a war theme. Polanski has many films under his belt as a director, but he also has many as an actor. His credits follow the video clips. Even Natalie Portman worked with Polanski, in the commerical for Greed. The Beatles and Polanski were also seen together.
Polanski's Acting Credits
* Trzy opowie?ci (aka Three Stories) as Genek 'The Little' (segment "Jacek") (1953)
* Zaczarowany rower (aka Magical Bicycle) as Adas (1955)
* Rower (aka Bicycle) as the Boy who wants to buy a bicycle (1955)
* Pokolenie (aka A Generation) as Mundek (1955)
* Nikodem Dyzma as the Boy at Hotel (1956)
* Wraki (aka The Wrecks) (1957)
* Koniec nocy (aka End of the Night) as the Little One (1957)
* Dwaj ludzie z szaf? (aka Two Men and a Wardrobe) as the Bad boy (1958)
* Zadzwo?cie do mojej ?ony ? (aka Call My Wife) as a Dancer (1958)
* Gdy spadaj? anio?y (aka When Angels Fall Down) as an Old woman (1959)
* Lotna as a Musician (1959)
* Zezowate szcz??cie (aka Bad Luck) as Jola's Tutor (1960)
* Do widzenia, do jutra (aka Good Bye, Till Tomorrow) as Romek (1960)
* Niewinni czarodzieje (aka Innocent Sorcerers) as Dudzio (1960)
* Ostro?nie, Yeti! (aka Beware of Yeti!) (1961)
* Gros et le maigre, Le (aka The Fat and the Lean) as The Lean (1961)
* Samson (1961)
* Nó? w wodzie (aka Knife in the Water) voice of Young Boy (1962)
* Repulsion as Spoon Player (1965)
* The Fearless Vampire Killers as Alfred, Abronsius' Assistant (1967)
* The Magic Christian as Solitary drinker (1969)
* What? as Mosquito (1972)
* Chinatown as Man with Knife (1974)
* Blood for Dracula (Andy Warhol) as Man in Tavern (1976)
* Locataire, Le (aka The Tenant) as Trelkovsky (1976)
* Chassé-croisé (1982)
* En attendant Godot (TV) as Lucky (1989)
* Back in the USSR as Kurilov (1992)
* Pura formalità , Una (aka A Pure Formality) as Inspector (1994)
* Grosse fatigue (aka Dead Tired) as Roman Polanski (1994)
* Hommage à Alfred (aka Tribute to Alfred Lepetit) (2000)
* Zemsta (aka The Revenge) as Papkin (2002)
* Rush Hour 3 as Detective Revi (2007)
* Caos Calmo as Steiner (2007)
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