Władysław Hańcza

Władysław Hańcza
Born	(1905-05-18)18 May 1905 Łódź, Congress Poland
Died	19 November 1977(1977-11-19) (aged 72) Warsaw, Poland
Occupation(s)	actor, stage director

Władysław Hańcza (18 May 1905 – 19 November 1977) was a Polish actor and theatre director.

Education and debut

In 1924, he graduated high school in his hometown of Łódź.^[1] Afterwards he studied philosophy and Polish philology at the University of Poznań.^[1] In 1927, he made his actor debut in a theater in Poznań.^[1]

Career

He performed in theatres in Poznań, Katowice, Toruń and Łódź, before he joined the National Theatre in Warsaw in 1939.^[1] During the German occupation in World War II, he joined an underground theater in Warsaw. In October 1944, he was deported by the Germans to a forced labour camp in Cottbus, and imprisoned there until the war ended in May 1945.^[1]

After the war he was a lecturer at the State Theatre Academy in Warsaw.

Selected filmography

• Popioły (1965)
• Sami swoi (1967) as Władysław Kargul
• Colonel Wołodyjowski (1968) as Nowowiejski
• Chłopi (1973 film) (1973) as Maciej Boryna
• Potop (1974) as Janusz Radziwiłł
• Nie ma mocnych (1974)
• Nights and Days (Noce i Dnie) (1975)
• Kochaj albo rzuć (1977)

References

1. "Władysław Hańcza (1905 – 1977)". Dziennik Teatralny (in Polish). Retrieved 30 September 2023.

External links

• Władysław Hańcza at IMDb