Actor

Vladek Sheybal

Polish actor

1923 - 1992

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His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Vladek Sheybal is the 3,672nd most popular actor, the 874th most popular biography from Poland and the 35th most popular Polish Actor.

Vladek Sheybal is most famous for portraying the icy chess master Kronsteen in the James Bond film From Russia with Love. A surprising lesser-known fact is that this Polish actor born in 1923 had trained as a classical stage performer in Warsaw before defecting to the West. His legacy endures in memorable villain roles across British cinema and television that highlighted his intense screen presence until his death in 1992.

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Among Actors

Among actors, Vladek Sheybal ranks 3,673 out of 13,578Before him are Élizabeth Bourgine, Henry Travers, Sylvia Chang, Jarl Kulle, Renée Jeanne Falconetti, Úrsula Corberó, and Lew Ayres. After him are James Arness, Olivia Rodrigo, Jacques Sernas, Lazar Ristovski, and Dina Meyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Vladek Sheybal ranks 252Before him are Mikhail Yegorov, Inger Jacobsen, Og Mandino, Karl-Heinz Metzner, Lygia Fagundes Telles, and Paul Xuereb. After him are James Arness, Ahti Karjalainen, Bror Mellberg, Vic Seixas, Murray Hamilton, and William Windom. Among people deceased in 1992, Vladek Sheybal ranks 162Before him are Marsha P. Johnson, Wilfried Dietrich, David Miller, Machiko Hasegawa, Richard Hartshorne, and Piotr Jaroszewicz. After him are Jean Aerts, Joseph Arthur Ankrah, Karl Deutsch, Vakhtang Chabukiani, Joan Mitchell, and Buddy Rogers.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Vladek Sheybal ranks 874 out of NaNBefore him are Julius Hübner (1806), Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł (1778), Jurek Becker (1937), Zacharias Ursinus (1534), Jan Machulski (1928), and Ernest Pohl (1932). After him are Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn (1812), Michael Sela (1924), Agnieszka Osiecka (1936), Władysław Ślewiński (1856), Zofia Zamenhof (1889), and Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799).

Among Actors In Poland

Among actors born in Poland, Vladek Sheybal ranks 35Before him are Leo White (1882), Janusz Gajos (1939), Ulli Lommel (1944), Willy Fritsch (1901), Małgorzata Braunek (1947), and Wojciech Bogusławski (1757). After him are Joanna Pacuła (1957), Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak (1951), Eva-Maria Hagen (1934), Anna Dymna (1951), Leon Niemczyk (1923), and Tommy Wiseau (1955).

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