Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski

Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski
Kazimierz Junosza-Stepowski
Born	(1880-11-26)26 November 1880 Venice, Italy
Died	5 July 1943(1943-07-05) (aged 62) Warsaw, Occupied Poland
Cause of death	Execution by shooting
Occupation(s)	Film actor Stage actor
Years active	1902–1939 (film)
Relatives	Jaga Juno (wife)

Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski (26 November 1880 – 5 July 1943) was a Polish stage and film actor. He was a legendary figure in Polish cinema who had appeared in the earliest Polish films in 1902. Junosza-Stępowski was killed while trying to protect his wife from members of the Polish Home Army, who had discovered she was an informer for the Gestapo.

He was married twice. His first wife was Helena Jankowska (d. 1915). In 1922 he married Iza Galewska.

Selected filmography

• Uwiedziona (1931)
• Córka generała Pankratowa (1934)
• Młody las (1934)
• Kochaj tylko mnie (1935)
• Pan Twardowski (1936)
• Bohaterowie Sybiru (1936)
• Róża (1936)
• Trędowata (1936)
• Wierna rzeka (1936)
• Znachor (1937)
• Profesor Wilczur (1938)
• Kobiety nad przepaścią (1938)
• Wrzos (1935)
• Ostatnia brygada (1938)
• Second Youth (1938)
• Rena (1938)
• Florian (1938)
• Sygnaly (1938)
• Doktór Murek (1939)

Bibliography

• Haltof, Marek. Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory. Berghahn Books, 2012.
• Skaff, Sheila. The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896–1939. Ohio University Press, 2008.

External links

• Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski at IMDb