Michał Waszyński
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Michał Waszyński | |
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Died | 20 February 1965 | (aged 60)
Nationality | Polish |
Occupation(s) | Producer, Film director |
Years active | 1922–1948 |
Michał Waszyński (29 September 1904 – 20 February 1965) was first a film director in Poland, then in Italy, and later (as Michael Waszynski) a producer of major American films, mainly in Spain. Known for his elegance and impeccable manners, he was known by his acquaintances as "the prince".
Waszyński was born as Mosze Waks into a Polish
In the 1930s Waszyński became the most prolific film director in Poland, directing 37 of the 147 films made in Poland in that decade, or one out of four. Along with popular films in Polish produced for a wide local audience, he directed an important film in Yiddish The Dybbuk, today a monument of the rich cultural life of East European Jewry before the Holocaust.
At the beginning of
In the summer of 1941, after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Waszyński joined the newly formed
Later in his career, Waszyński worked as a producer for the major American studios in Italy and (primarily) Spain, credited as Michael Waszynski. His credits include The Quiet American (1958) (associate producer), El Cid (1961), and The Fall of the Roman Empire (film) (1964) (executive producer and associate producer).
He died of a heart attack on 20 February 1965 in Madrid and was buried in a ceremonious Catholic funeral in Rome.
Filmography
- William Tell (1949)
- La Grande strada (1948) Polish film produced in Italy, (1946, Italian version completed in 1948, with the collaboration of Vittorio Cottafavi); with Jadwiga Andrzejewska
- Fire Over the Sea (1947)
- The Unknown Man of San Marino(1946)
- Wielka droga(1946)
- Monte Cassino (1944)
- Mp. Adama i Ewy (1944)
- Dzieci (1943)
- Pobyt generala Wl. Sikorskiego na Srodkowym Wschodzie (1943)
- Polska parada (1943)
- Kronika wojenna nr 1 (1942)
- Marsz do wolnosci (1942)
- Od pobudki do capstrzyku (1942)
- The Three Hearts (1939)
- U kresu drogi (1939)
- The Vagabonds (1939)
- Serce matki (1938)
- Gehenna (1938)
- Profesor Wilczur (1938)
- Ostatnia brygada (1938)
- Druga młodość(1938)
- Kobiety nad przepaścią (1938)
- Rena (1938)
- The Dybbuk(1937)
- Znachor (1937)
- Papa się żeni(1936)
- Bohaterowie Sybiru (1936)
- Dodek na froncie (1936)
- 30 karatów szczęścia (1936)
- Będzie lepiej (1936)
- Bolek i Lolek(1936)
- Nie miała baba kłopotu(1935)
- Panienka z poste restante (1935)
- Wacuś (1935)
- Jaśnie pan szofer (1935)
- ABC miłości (1935)
- Antek policmajster(1935)
- Czarna perła(1934)
- Kocha, lubi, szanuje(1934)
- Pieśniarz Warszawy (1934)
- Parada rezerwistów(1934)
- Co mój mąż robi w nocy (1934)
- Zabawka (1933)
- Prokurator Alicja Horn (1933)
- Dvanáct kresel(1933)
- Jego ekscelencja subiekt(1933)
- Sto metrów miłości (1932)
- Głos pustyni(1932)
- Bezimienni bohaterowie (1932)
- Uwiedziona (1931)
- Niebezpieczny romans (1930)
- Kult ciała (1930)
- Pod banderą miłości (1929)
- Jealousy (1922)
References
- Michał Waszyński at IMDb