Monday, August 24, 2015

Jerzy Kamas dead. Esteemed actor had 77 years – rmf24.pl

At the age of 77 died of film and theater actor Jerzy Kamas. Information handed management Athenaeum Theatre.

Jerzy Kamas

/ Zygmunt Januszewski / PAP

It is with deep regret and sadness we say goodbye to George Kamasa, outstanding actor, our friend and master. Since 1971, he created the stage Athenaeum Theatre dozens of prominent roles. It will remain in our memory forever – said in Sunday’s statement management and team Athenaeum Theatre.

Kamas was one of the most acclaimed Polish film and theater actors. Throughout his career he has worked with many great directors – including Adam Hanuszkiewicz, Kazimierz Kutz and Maciej Prus.

He was born on July 8, 1938. in Lodz. He studied at the Acting Department of Lodz “Film School”. First he appeared in the theater in 1957 – on the stage of Theatre of the Łódź starred in the play “Smith, money and Stars” Jerzy Szaniawski, which was directed by Stefania Domańska. Three years later, in another Lodz theater – common – she starred in the plays of William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” (dir. George Walden) and “Midsummer Night’s Dream” (dir. Emil Chaberski).

In Lodz Teatr Powszechny played until 1964. – performed there, among others, in “Pickwick Club” Charles Dickens and “The Physicists” by Friedrich Duerrenmatta. In the years 1964-1967 he was an actor Theatre. Slowackiego in Krakow. On the stage he played, among others, Poet in “Liberation” Wyspiański (dir. Bronislaw Dabrowski), Filch in “The Threepenny Opera” by Bertolt Brecht (dir. Lidia Zamkow) and Macduff in “Macbeth” by Shakespeare (dir. Lidia Zamkow).

From 1968. Kamasa could be seen at the National Theatre in Warsaw. He played in several productions directed by Adam Hanuszkiewicz – starred, among others, as Bianchetti in “Some divine comedy” Zygmunt Krasinski (1969), Inquisitor in “Saint Joan” by George Bernard Shaw (1969) car in the “Kordian” Julius Slovak (1970) and Claudius in “Hamlet” by Shakespeare (1970) . At the National Theatre Kamas also she starred in “Richard III” by Shakespeare, as Richard Duke of Gloucester (1969, dir. Jan Maciejowski) and “The Threepenny Opera” by Bertolt Brecht, as Mackie Majcher (1970, dir. Jan Maciejowski).

In 1971. Kamas began performing on the stage of the Athenaeum Theatre in Warsaw. He played in performances directed, among others, by Janusz Warminski, Kazimierz Kutz and Maciej Prus. In Warminski he played, among others, in “business associate” Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1973, as Cop), “creditors’ August Strindberg (1982, as Adolf) and” The Cherry Orchard “by Anton Chekhov (1986, as Leonid Andrejewicz Gajew). In Kutz – in “Danton’s Death” by Georg Buchner (1982, as Robespierre) and “confessions maidservants Zerlina” Hermann Broch (1992, as Mr. A.). In Prus – in “The Shoemakers” Witkiewicz (1971, as a young man), “Don Carlos” Friedrich Schiller (1972, as Father Domingo), “Fantazy” Julius Slovak (1973, as Count Fantazy Dafnicki) and “Gyubal Wahazar” Witkiewicz ( in 1973, as Wahazar).

The creation Kamasa the “Gyubal Wahazar” written on the pages of “Culture”: “It is literal, play this role without the fashionable interpretations of pieces Witkiewicz distance, even without irony, it seems that this was the intention theater producer. His Wahazar is dangerous and cruel and really lonely. ” For his role in exposed on the stage of the Athenaeum “Pornography” WitoldaGombrowicza (dir. Andrew Pawlowski) – where he played the role of Frederic – Kamas received in 1985. Award mayor of Warsaw.

The Athenaeum also starred, among others, , directed by Laco Adamik “The Hunt for cockroaches,” Janusz Glowacki (1991, together with Peter Machalica, Maria Pakulnis and Wiktor Zborowski), “tea with Stalin” by Ronald Harwood, directed by Tomasz Zygadło (2000, Marian Kociniakiem, Magdalena Zawadzka and Arthur Barcisiem ), in “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles, directed by Gustav Holoubek (2004, with Peter Fronczewski, Teresa wake-Krzyżanowska and Jerzy Trela) and in “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky in the implementation of Barbara Sass (2006, with Bartosz Opania and Peter Fronczewski) .

The most famous film roles, George Kamasa include performances in “Nights and days” (1975) by Jerzy Antczak, “Kung Fu” (1979) Janusz Kiev, “Valley of Issa” (1982) Tadeusz Konwicki “No End” (1984), Krzysztof Kieslowski, “a foreigner” (1986) Richard Vera, “ring with an eagle in the crown” (1992) by Andrzej Wajda, “Acts Twardowski” (1995) Christopher Gradowski, “grid” (1996) Paul Lozinski and in the television series “Doll” (1977, dir. Ryszard Ber), “Queen Bona” (1980, dir. Janusz Majewski), “Life Kamil Kurant” (1982, Gregory Warchoł) and “Klan” (1997-2008, many directors).

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