Mieczysław Czechowicz
Birthday: Born in 1930-09-28 in Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland
Deathday: 1991-09-14
TV Credits
Janosik
Character: hrabia Hortvath
Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. There are 13 1-hour episodes....
Czterej pancerni i pies
Character: Konstanty Szawełło
Czterej pancerni i pies was a Polish black and white TV series based on the book by Janusz Przymanowski. Made between 1966 and 1970, the series is composed of 21 episodes of 55 minutes each, divided into three seasons. It is set in 1944 and 1945, during World War II, and follows the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army. Although both the book and the TV series contain elements of pro-Soviet propaganda, they have achieved and retain a cult series status in Poland, ...
Przygody misia Uszatka
Character: Narrator (voice)
Miś Uszatek and his friends - Prosiaczek, Króliczki and Zajączek, as well as Kruczek the Puppy - were loved by pre-teen kids. At the same time, Uszatek, a teddy bear, played the role of a friend from kindergarten. He was also liked by parents, as he would always go to bed at appropriate hour, singing the goodnight song: Altogether, Se-ma-for created 104 episodes of the cartoon; the last one was made in 1987. In the 1960s, two theatrical movies about the friendly bear were made. Also, in the fal...
Proszę słonia
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Niewiarygodne przygody Marka Piegusa
Character: Teofil Bosmann
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Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy
Character: Olszewski, dyrektor białostockiej Dyrekcji Lasów Państwowych
Nikodem Dyzma immigrates from the eastern part of Poland to the capital in the hope for possibilities to make a living. He is in need, very poor and forced to look for basic food and shelter. Yet, on a day when an unexpected invitation appears, his life changes dramatically....
Movie Credits
A Cure for Love
Character: 'Chudy', Gang Member
An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej....
The Verdict
Character: MO Sergeant
An alcoholic mother of a born out of wedlock child has a difficult decision to make when a journalist proposes to adopt her son and pay her for it....
Kłopotliwy gość
Character: Serious Agent
Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it....
Poradnik matrymonialny
Character: Man with an Umbrella
Roksana is the editor of the heart advice section of a widely read magazine. Her problem is the handsome and loving husband Bogumił. The man was taken to the hospital, where he is looked after by his sister Krystyna....
The Devil from Seventh Grade
Character: Fake Werycho
Adam Cisowski, a devilishly smart teenager is looking for treasure hidden by Napoleon's soldier. But he is not the only one searching for it, and his rivals are very dangerous....
Five Boys from Barska Street
Character: Bricklayer (uncredited)
In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss....
Wife for an Australian
Character: Kapitan Klement, kuzyn Roberta
A Polish-born Australian businessman arrives in Poland to find a wife for himself....
The Eighth Day of the Week
Character: Thug on Agnieszka's Street (uncredited)
Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It was banned in Poland in 1958 and would not be seen anywhere until its European release one year later....
I Hate Mondays
Character: Robber
An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American....
Rififi po sześćdziesiątce
Character: Adam Dyląg
A group of retirees, wanting to help a friend, plan to break into a bank....
Butterflies
Character: Mietek
Twelve year-old Edek falls under the spell of a girl named Monika while vacationing at his aunt's house. Getting increasingly infatuated with her, Edek does not know that Monika is not all she seems to be....
Story of the Golden Boot
Character: Kraków Gate Guard
Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow....
The Peasants
Character: Szymek (uncredited)
In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972....
Teenager
Character: Wacek
A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble....
Proszę słonia
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Young Pinio gives his porcelain elephant Dominik vitamins, after which he becomes real, and the two set off on new adventures....
Janosik
Character: Hrabia Horvath
In the early 19th century, the legendary Tatra brigand Janosik defies the oppressive local nobility and Austrian troops by robbing the rich to give to the poor, becoming a folk hero among the peasants....
Korn's Password
Character: Captain Zawadzki
An intelligence agent's murder bring upon a national investigation into a spy organisation called Korn....
The Hours of Hope
Character: WP Soldier (uncredited)
In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards....
Nowy
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed....
Zginął pies
Character: Dog thief
Tomek is searching for a lost dog....
Rodzina Milcarków
Character: Hyzik
The fate of a working-class family during the third Silesian Uprising....
Trzy kroki po ziemi
Character: Szlenkiel (segment 1)
Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski....
Warsaw Sketches
Character: Henio (segment "...Ad Libitum")
Three stories describing the life of the inhabitants of Warsaw, each set in a different time period....
The Wedding
Character: Priest
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past....
Ostrożnie yeti
Character: Militiaman
Absurd gag comedy about a grotesque pursuit of a "snow man" allegedly imported to Poland. A box with a shipment from India, which was supposed to contain a yeti, turned out to be empty. The desperate professor tries to find it. He even gets into prison, from which, however, he escapes handcuffed with the thief. Meanwhile, the "snow man" begins to be considered the perpetrator of more and more crimes. Eventually, everything becomes clear. In the telegram notifying of the shipment, a word was twis...
Man - Woman Wanted
Character: Professor
Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison. Desperate, he decides to hide in disguise as a woman until he can paint a copy of the stolen canvas. Lacking means to live, he takes jobs as a maid for a variety of colorful characters....
Husband of His Wife
Character: Mamczyk
Mąż swojej żony (English: Husband of His Wife) is a Polish comedy from 1960 directed by Stanisław Bareja. The story of a newly married couple, Michał Karcz (composer) and sprinter Jadwiga Fołtasiówna-Karcz. Michał has to adjust to Jadwiga being much more famous and her fame and needs dominating their lives....
A Jungle Book of Regulations
Character: Lusia's Father
Janek and Wanda live in a small room in a villa, while other rooms are occupied by offices of various institutions. Janek often stays at work after hours, just to avoid returning to the cramped apartment too early. One day, a man named Malinowski, who once lived in the same small room, visits the couple. He proposes to exchange their room for a new, two-room apartment that he has just received. Janek and Wanda are initially distrustful, but eventually, the exchange takes place. It turns out that...
Barwy walki
Character: Waluś
Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is going on between the Germans and resistance fighters in the region....
Otello z M-2
Character: Militiaman
A man believes his wife is cheating on him....
Good Sins
Character: Wojtek
A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way....
Paryż - Warszawa bez wizy
Character: Karol Lenciak
Pilot Stefan Janotta recalls the war and the years following, when he helped rebuilding Polish Airlines....
Checkmate!
Character: James
Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredible Stories". It tells about Bartolomeo, brilliant chess player, who had ruined his private life because of his passion for chess....
Mężczyźni na wyspie
Character: Franek
Two men working as lawn mowers fight over a woman....
Królowa pszczół
Character: Pan Wacio, szef stacji benzynowej
Twelve-year-old Tomek helps his father working at a gas station. His dream is to own one of the cars that he and his father service every day. Tomek is also in love with Mariola, a girl from Warsaw. She, in turn, has feelings for Wojtek....
The Holy War
Character: Antoni Kotyrba
To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski)....
Cnostný Metod
Character: Metod Šubík
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Evening at the Starlings
Character: Self
Documentary recording of one of the programs of the "Szpak" cabaret, which operated between 1954-1963 under the auspices of the Polish Radio. The skits and songs are presented by, among others, Irena Kwiatkowska, Alina Janowska, Mieczysław Czechowicz and Hanna Skarżanka....