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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerzy Skolimowski has received more than 490,666 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Jerzy Skolimowski is the 192nd most popular film director (up from 205th in 2019), the 217th most popular biography from Poland (up from 240th in 2019) and the 6th 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 192 out of 1,581Before him are Michael Cacoyannis, Ivan Reitman, Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Kramer, Nicholas Ray, and Vsevolod Pudovkin. After him are Michael Moore, Lewis Milestone, Richard Donner, Shohei Imamura, Jean Negulesco, and Alan J. Pakula.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Jerzy Skolimowski ranks 67Before him are Derek Jacobi, Bob Kahn, Terence Stamp, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, José Altafini, and Etta James. After him are Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld, Anthony James Leggett, J. J. Cale, Dean Reed, Kenny Rogers, and Georg Baselitz.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jerzy Skolimowski ranks 217 out of 1,454Before him are Heinrich Rickert (1863), Karl Denke (1860), Grzegorz Lato (1950), Aleksandra Ekster (1882), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), and Ernst Toller (1893). After him are Muazzez Sultan (1628), Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Emil Ludwig (1881), Leszek Kołakowski (1927), and Ernst Kummer (1810).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Jerzy Skolimowski ranks 6Before him are Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Andrzej Wajda (1926), Dziga Vertov (1896), Fred Zinnemann (1907), and Jerzy Grotowski (1933). After him are Agnieszka Holland (1948), Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), Walerian Borowczyk (1923), and Jerzy Hoffman (1932).

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