Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski

Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski
Kazimierz Junosza-Stepowski
Born	(1880-11-26)26 November 1880 Venice, Italy
Died	5 July 1943(1943-07-05) (aged 62) Warsaw, Occupied Poland
Cause of death	Execution by shooting
Occupation(s)	Film actor Stage actor
Years active	1902–1939 (film)
Relatives	Jaga Juno (wife)

Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski (26 November 1880 – 5 July 1943) was a Polish stage and film actor. He was a legendary figure in Polish cinema who had appeared in the earliest Polish films in 1902. Junosza-Stępowski was killed while trying to protect his wife from members of the Polish Home Army, who had discovered she was an informer for the Gestapo.^[1]

He was married twice. His first wife was Helena Jankowska (d. 1915). In 1922 he married Iza Galewska.

Selected filmography

• Uwiedziona (1931)
• Córka generała Pankratowa (1934)
• Młody las (1934)
• Kochaj tylko mnie (1935)
• Pan Twardowski (1936)
• Bohaterowie Sybiru (1936)
• Róża (1936)
• Trędowata (1936)
• Wierna rzeka (1936)
• Znachor (1937)
• Profesor Wilczur (1938)
• Kobiety nad przepaścią (1938)
• Wrzos (1935)
• Ostatnia brygada (1938)
• Second Youth (1938)
• Rena (1938)
• Florian (1938)
• Sygnaly (1938)
• Doktór Murek (1939)

References

Bibliography

• Haltof, Marek. Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory. Berghahn Books, 2012.
• Skaff, Sheila. The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896–1939. Ohio University Press, 2008.

External links

• Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski at IMDb

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