Gustaw Holoubek

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birthname = Gustaw Holoubek
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location = Kraków
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deathplace = Warszawa
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yearsactive = 1947–2008
spouse = Danuta Kwiatkowska (?–?)
Maria Wachowiak (?–?)
Magdalena Zawadzka (1973–2008)
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Gustaw Holoubek (April 21 1923 – March 6 2008 [ [http://www.poland.pl/news/article,Legend_of_Polish_stages_Gustaw_Holoubek_dies,id,318018.htm Legend of Polish stages Gustaw Holoubek dies] ] ) was a Polish actor, director, member of the Polish Sejm, and a senator.

His father was Czech who settled in Poland after the first World War and mother was Polish.

Holoubek participated in the September Campaign and was a prisoner of war of the German Nazis during World War II. He had his first start as an actor in 1947.

His political career began in 1976, when he was elected to the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish Parliament. He was re-elected in 1980, but resigned in 1981 when martial law was declared. In 1989, he was elected to the Senate, the upper house. That same year, he took a position as a professor at the Academy of Theatre in Warsaw.

Holoubek was a recipient of the Cavalier's Cross of the Order of Poland Reborn.

Partial Filmography

* 1958 – Pętla "(The Noose)"
* 1959 – Das gemeinsame Zimmer
* 1961 – Historia żółtej ciżemki "(Story of the Golden Boot)"
* 1961 – Czas przeszły "(Time Past)"
* 1962 – Jutro premiera "(Opening Tomorrow)"
* 1962 – Spotkanie w "Bajce "(Cafe from the Past)"
* 1963 – Naprawdę wczoraj "(Yesterday in Fact)"
* 1963 – Gangsterzy i filantropi "(Gangsters and Philantropists)"
* 1964 – Prawo i pięść "(The Law and the Fist)"
* 1965 - Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie "(The Saragossa Manuscript)"
* 1965 – Les rideaux blancs "(The Moment of Peace)"
* 1965 – Salto
* 1966 – Marysia i Napoleon "(Maria and Napoleon)"
* 1972 – Jak daleko stąd, jak blisko "(How Far, How Near)"
* 1973 – Sanatorium pod klepsydrą "(The Hour-Glass Sanatorium)"
* 1978 – Szpital przemienienia "(Hospital of the Transfiguration)"
* 1978 – Pokój z widokiem na morze "(A Room with a View on the Sea)"
* 1981 – Dziecinne Pytania "(Childish Questions)"
* 1986 – Zygfryd "(Siegfried)"
* 1990 - Mistrz i Małgorzata "(The Master and Margarita)"
* 1999 - Ogniem i Mieczem "(With Fire and Sword)"

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