Tomasz Borkowy
Birthday: Born in 1952-09-17 in Warsaw, Poland
Deathday: Alive
Tomasz Borkowy is a Polish actor, often credited as Tomek Bork. He graduated from Theatre college in Kraków in 1977 and first came to the UK the following year, unable to speak English. He moved to the UK full time in 1980 and appeared in a number of film and television productions. He has also continued to work in Poland, where he is most well known for playing the lead role in the TV drama series, Dom (House) which ran for 7 series over 20 years (1980–2000). Borkowy has also starred in and produced a number of plays at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the past 18 years. Borkowy now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland and southern Spain. He runs Universal Arts – an international agency and production company for performing arts, while still working as an actor.
TV Credits
The Bill
Character:
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters....
Doctor Who
Character: Captain Sorin
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs....
Love Hurts
Character:
Love Hurts is a British comedy-drama series that was broadcast from 3 January 1992 to 18 March 1994 on BBC1. It was scripted by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran and starred Adam Faith, Zoë Wanamaker and Jane Lapotaire as Frank Carver, Tessa Piggott and Diane Warburg, respectively....
Lovejoy
Character: Max
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries....
Życie na gorąco
Character: Andreas, pomocnik Maja z greckiej opozycji
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Piece of Cake
Character: 'Zaddy' Zardarnowski
The life of a Royal Air Force fighter squadron from the day of the British entry into World War II through to one of the toughest days in the Battle of Britain....
Dom
Character: Andrzej Talar
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980....
Do krwi ostatniej
Character: żołnierz I szej Dywizji
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Movie Credits
Tylko Beatrycze
Character: Urban
Raised by the monks, Stanisław gets involved in a scheme to murder the king....
A Bear Named Wojtek
Character: Major (voice)
Displaced by the Second World War, a troop of Polish soldiers form an inseparable bond through an orphaned bear they name Wojtek....
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Character: Jiri
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her....
How Deep Is the Ocean?
Character: Marek
Marek wakes up in the belly of a whale, where he meets his deceased loved ones....
Murder on the Moon
Character: Sorokin
After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and Soviet investigators are forced to work on the case together....
Sleepers
Character: Radio Operator
Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counterplots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection....
A Question of Identity
Character: Peter
Erwin van Haarlem is a man of mystery. Living in London in 1986 and ostensibly a Dutch art dealer, he is in fact spying for Czechoslovakia with a mission to track down supporters of the dissident group, Chapter 77....
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
Character: Sorin
The Doctor and Ace arrive at a secret military base during World War II, where an ancient evil from the Doctor's past prepares to make his final deadly move. As hideous vampires rise from the sea and Russian commandoes begin to close in, they are confronted not only with a mystery from the distant past but also a terrifying vision of mankind's future......
You Will Not Have Peace
Character: Long
After leaving prison, Tolek plans to get revenge on his former girlfriend....
Journey's End
Character: German Soldier
A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play....
Border
Character: Border Guard
Czechoslovakia, 1952. For some, life under the post-war Stalinist regime is hardly worth living and although the escape route to the West is almost suicide, the rewards - prosperity, political freedom, even luxury - make it a risk worth taking....