Richard Boleslawski
Richard Boleslawski | |
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Hollywood, California , US | |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Other names | Bolesław Ryszard Srzednicki |
| Occupation(s) | Acting teacher • Actor • Theater and Film director |
| Spouses | Maria Efremova (divorced)Natalia Platonova (div. 1929)Norma Drury (m. 1929) |
Richard Boleslawski (born Bolesław Ryszard Srzednicki; February 4, 1889 – January 17, 1937) was a Polish theatre and film director, actor and teacher of acting.
Biography
Richard Boleslawski was born Bolesław Ryszard Srzednicki on February 4, 1889, in
During
Boleslawski was married at least three times and had a son with his last wife, Norma.
Boleslawski acted in Love One Another (
Offered a contract to direct
Hugh Walpole, who worked with Boleslawski on the script for Les Misérables (1935), dedicated his 1937 novel John Cornelius to him with an In Memoriam poem.[4]
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Boleslawski has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.
Filmography
Films directed by Richard Boleslavsky (also credited as Ryszard Bolesławski and Richard Boleslawski):
in Russia
- Tri Vstrechi
- Khlieb (1918)
in Poland
- Bohaterstwo Polskiego Skauta (1920)
- Cud nad Wisłą (The Miracle at the Vistula) (1921)
in the United States
- The Grand Parade (1930), choreography only
- Treasure Girl (1930 short)
- The Last of the Lone Wolf (1930)
- The Gay Diplomat (1930)
- Rasputin and the Empress (1932), teaming Ethel, John, and Lionel Barrymore
- Storm at Daybreak (1933)
- Beauty for Sale (1933)
- Fugitive Lovers (1934)
- Men in White (1934) starring Clark Gable
- Hollywood Party (1934)
- Operator 13 (1934)
- The Painted Veil (1934), featuring Greta Garbo
- Clive of India (1935)
- Les Misérables (1935), with Fredric March and Charles Laughton
- Metropolitan (1935)
- O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935)
- Three Godfathers (1936)
- The Garden of Allah (1936), starring Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer
- Theodora Goes Wild (1936), featuring Irene Dunne
- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937) starring Joan Crawford and William Powell (Boleslavsky died before this film was completed)
Books
- The Way of the Lancer (1932; about the battles of Polish Uhlans in Russia)
- Lances Down (1932)
- Boleslavsky, Richard. 1933 Acting: the First Six Lessons. New York: Theatre Arts, 1987. ISBN 0-87830-000-7. (1933)
- New Features In Acting (1935)
References
- ^ Kulesza, Marek (2018). "Ryszard Bolesławski [in:] Encyklopedia Teatru Polskiego" (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-02-18.
- ^ Benedetti (1999, 209-211).
- ^ "Die Gezeichneten".
- ^ Walpole, Hugh (1937). John Cornelius, His Life and Adventures. Macmillan & Co., London. pp. v.
Sources
- Benedetti, Jean. 1999. Stanislavski: His Life and Art. Revised edition. Original edition published in 1988. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-52520-1.
External links
- Kulesza, Marek (2018), Ryszard Bolesławski at the Encyklopedia teatru polskiego (Polish)
- Richard Boleslawski at IMDb
- Richard Boleslawski at the Internet Broadway Database
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