Gustaw Holoubek
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Biography
Gustaw Teofil Holoubek (21 April 1923 – 6 March 2008) was a Polish actor, director, member of the Polish Sejm, and a senator.
Holoubek participated in the September Campaign and was a prisoner of war during the Nazi German Occupation of Poland. His father was a Czech immigrant who settled in Poland after the First World War, and his mother was Polish.
Holoubek had his first role as an actor in 1947, thus beginning his lifelong career in theatre and film in Poland and abroad. 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 Order of Polonia Restituta (Knight's Cross, Commander's Cross with Star, Grand Cross).
Partial filmography
- 1953 – Żołnierz zwycięstwa (The Soldier of Victory)
- 1958 – Pętla (The Noose)
- 1958 – Pożegnania (Farewells)
- 1959 – Wspólny pokój (Roomers)
- 1960 – Rozstanie (Goodbye to the Past)
- 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)
- 1962 – Gangsterzy i filantropi
- 1963 – Naprawdę wczoraj (Yesterday in Fact)
- 1963 – Gangsterzy i filantropi (Gangsters and Philanthropists)
- 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)
- 1971 – Goya – oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis (Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment)
- 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)
- 1989 – A Tale of Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve'
- 1990 – Mistrz i Małgorzata (The Master and Margarita)
- 1999 – Ogniem i mieczem (With Fire and Sword)
