FILM DIRECTOR

Jerzy Skolimowski

1938 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jerzy Skolimowski is the 219th most popular film director (down from 178th in 2019), the 275th most popular biography from Poland (down from 218th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Polish Film Director.

Jerzy Skolimowski is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is most famous for his films "Deep End" and "The Shout."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jerzy Skolimowski ranks 219 out of 2,041. Before him are Robert Aldrich, Miklós Jancsó, Mahesh Bhatt, Alfonso Cuarón, Liliana Cavani, and Mike Newell. After him are Stanley Kramer, Bertrand Blier, Donald P. Bellisario, Mark Robson, Theo van Gogh, and David Zucker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Jerzy Skolimowski ranks 91. Before him are Dean Reed, Luigi Tenco, Mamadou Tandja, Ricardo Lagos, David Lane, and Michael Rockefeller. After him are Leiji Matsumoto, Terence Stamp, Fela Kuti, Carlos Bilardo, Taha Yassin Ramadan, and Joyce Carol Oates.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jerzy Skolimowski ranks 275 out of 1,694. Before him are Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676), Franz Mehring (1846), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Henryk Szeryng (1918), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), and Władysław I Herman (1043). After him are Jan Kochanowski (1530), Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732), Stanisław Ryłko (1945), Miguel Najdorf (1910), Hans Kammler (1901), and Kurt Masur (1927).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Jerzy Skolimowski ranks 8. Before him are Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Andrzej Wajda (1926), Dziga Vertov (1896), Fred Zinnemann (1907), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), and Agnieszka Holland (1948). After him are Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), Walerian Borowczyk (1923), and Paweł Pawlikowski (1957).

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