Gene Gutowski

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Gene Gutowski
Lwów, Poland
DiedMay 10, 2016(2016-05-10) (aged 90)
Warsaw
, Poland
OccupationFilm producer
Years active1955-2007
Spouses
Zillah Rhoades
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(m. 1947⁠–⁠1955)​
x
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(m. 1960)​
Judy Wilson
​
(m. 1963⁠–⁠1973)​
Corinna Liddell
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(m. 1976⁠–⁠1983)​
Dorota Puzio
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(m. 1990⁠–⁠1995)​
Asia Smaga
​
(m. 2000⁠–⁠2016)​

Witold Bardach (July 26, 1925 – May 10, 2016),

Cul-de-Sac (1966), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), and The Pianist (2002).[2][3][4][5][6]

Biography

Early life

Gutowski was born as Witold Bardach in

Lwow (then Poland, now Ukraine) in 1925, the son of lawyer Juliusz Bardach and Anna Bardach née Garfunkel, a concert pianist. From 1933 until the beginning of the war in 1939, the Bardach family lived in Rawa Ruska. They then moved back to Lwow, where, under Soviet occupation, Witold began his studies as sculptor at the Institute of Fine Arts under Marian Wnuk
. In 1941, the Germans occupied Lwow, and a year later his entire family, who had lived there for generations, was killed.

Bardach escaped to Warsaw, where he first worked for a photographer and later as an employee of the

Counterintelligence Corps of the United States Army.[citation needed] He worked as a special agent until March 1947,[citation needed] when he married State Department
employee Zillah Rhoades, and moved with her to New York City. They had two children: Andrew Gutowski, born in New York on July 17, 1951, and Alexander Waugh Gutowski, born in Charlottesville, Virginia on November 7, 1952. Alexander Waugh Gutowski had one child, Jordan Waugh, born in Saskatchewan, Canada on September 17, 1979.

Film career

After working for a few years as fashion illustrator, Gene Gutowski entered the film and TV industry, working as a production manager on a couple of episodes of the mid-1950s TV series

Passion Flower Hotel (1965), Death and the Maiden (1992) and Doubt: A Parable
(2007).

In 2004, his Polish autobiography Od Holocaustu do Hollywood (From Holocaust to Hollywood), was published. An English-language edition under the title With Balls and Chutzpah: A Story of Survival was issued in the U.S. in 2011. In 2014, his son, the Hollywood-based filmmaker/producer Adam Bardach, made a documentary biopic "Dancing Before the Enemy: How a Teenage Boy Fooled the Nazis and Lived (Mój tata Gene Gutowski)".

Filmography

References

  1. ^ "The Pianist producer Gene Gutowski dies aged 90". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2022-06-03.
  2. ^ The New York Times
  3. ^ "Autobiography Summary". Archived from the original on 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2009-11-27.
  4. ^ Repulsion: The Criterion Collection, Slant Magazine (2009)
  5. ^ Od Holocastu do Hollywood, Gazeta Wyborcza (2004)
  6. ^ Spieprzaj do Hollywood! Gazeta Wyborcza (2009)

External links

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