FILM DIRECTOR

Jerzy Stuhr

1947 - 2024

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Jerzy Oskar Stuhr (Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ ˈɔskar ˈʂtur]; 18 April 1947 – 9 July 2024) was a Polish film and theatre actor. Considered one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors and an icon of Polish cinema, he also worked as a screenwriter, film director, voice actor and drama professor. He served as the rector of the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Kraków for two terms: from 1990 to 1996 and again from 2002 to 2008. Throughout his long and prolific professional career spanning over five decades, he appeared in 65 films including Camera Buff (1979), Sexmission (1984), A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984), Dekalog: Ten (1989), Three Colours: White (1994), Kiler (1997), Love Stories (1997) and The Big Animal (2000). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jerzy Stuhr is the 268th most popular film director (up from 278th in 2019), the 318th most popular biography from Poland (up from 324th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Polish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jerzy Stuhr ranks 268 out of 2,041. Before him are Roger Corman, Jean Epstein, Gus Van Sant, Claude Sautet, Rouben Mamoulian, and Douglas Sirk. After him are Gojko Mitić, Souleymane Cissé, Béla Tarr, Terence Young, Nanni Moretti, and Robert Siodmak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Jerzy Stuhr ranks 136. Before him are Cozy Powell, Haji Mohammad Chamkani, Thomas Cech, Margaret Chan, Gérard Houllier, and Richard Jenkins. After him are Viktor Suvorov, Branko Oblak, Kiki Camarena, Ian Anderson, Florian Schneider, and Edward James Olmos. Among people deceased in 2024, Jerzy Stuhr ranks 107. Before him are Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Bob Newhart, Sérgio Mendes, Brigitte Bierlein, Maryse Condé, and Roger Corman. After him are Zvi Zamir, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Jack Jones, Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, Cissy Houston, and Fredric Jameson.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jerzy Stuhr ranks 318 out of 1,694. Before him are Józef Bem (1794), Ida Haendel (1928), Jan Karski (1914), Lilli Palmer (1914), Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845), and Jean Epstein (1897). After him are Zvi Zamir (1925), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Casimir II the Just (1138), Stefan Czarniecki (1599), Artur Schnabel (1882), and Józef Elsner (1769).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Jerzy Stuhr ranks 11. Before him are Fred Zinnemann (1907), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Robert Wiene (1873), and Jean Epstein (1897). After him are Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), Walerian Borowczyk (1923), Paweł Pawlikowski (1957), Jerzy Hoffman (1932), Andrzej Munk (1921), and Wojciech Has (1925).

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