Gustaw Holoubek

Gustaw Teofil Holoubek (21 April 1923 – 6 March 2008) was a Polish actor, director, member of the Polish Sejm, and a senator.

Biography 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).

Selected filmography

1953: The Soldier of Victory (Żołnierz zwycięstwa) - Feliks Dzierzynski 1955: Błękitny krzyż - Narrator (voice) 1956: Tajemnica dzikiego szybu - Class teacher Sadej 1958: The Noose (Pętla) - Kuba Kowalski 1958: Farewells (Pożegnania) - Mirek 1959: Bialy niedzwiedz - Henryk Fogiel 1960: Wspólny pokój (Roomers) - Dziadzia 1960: Kolorowe ponczochy - Educator 1961: Marysia i krasnoludki 1961: Rozstanie (Goodbye to the Past) 1961: Time Past (Czas przeszły) - Von steinhagen 1961: Story of the Golden Boot(Historia żółtej ciżemki) - Wit Stwosz 1962: Opening Tomorrow (Jutro premiera) - Zenon Wiewiórski 1962: Spóznieni przechodnie - Edward (segment "Czas przybliza, czas oddala") 1962: Slantzeto i syankata - Znamenitiyat aktyor 1962: Cafe from the Past (Spotkanie w "Bajce") - Doctor Pawel 1963: Gangsters and Philanthropists (Gangsterzy i filantropi) - Professor 1963: Yesterday in Fact (Naprawdę wczoraj) - Captain Stolyp 1964: The Law and the Fist (Prawo i piesc) - Andrzej Kenig 1965: The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie) - Don Pedro Velasquez 1965: Salto - Host 1965: The Moment of Peace (Les rideaux blancs) 1966: Maria and Napoleon (Marysia i Napoleon) - Napoleon Bonaparte - Napoleon Beranger 1969: Pan Wolodyjowski 1969: Gra - Husband 1970: Salt of the Black Earth (Sól ziemi czarnej) - Narrator (voice, uncredited) 1971: Pejzaz z bohaterem - Rafal Wilczewski, History Teacher 1971: Dzieciol - Thief (voice, uncredited) 1971: Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (Goya – oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis) - Bermudez 1972: How Far, How Near (Jak daleko stad, jak blisko) - Maks 1973: The Hourglass Sanatorium (Sanatorium pod klepsydrą) - Dr. Gotard 1978: A Room with a View on the Se (Pokój z widokiem na morze) - Profesor Jan Leszczynski 1978: Hospital of the Transfiguration (Szpital przemienienia) - Writer Zygmunt Sekulowski 1981: W biały dzień - Judge 1981: Childish Questions (Dziecinne Pytania) - Professor 1982: Limuzyna Daimler-Benz - Maks Felinski, Michal's Godfather 1983: An Uneventful Story (Nieciekawa historia) - Professor 1984: W starym dworku czyli niepodleglosc trójkatów - Tadeusz 1985: Zabicie ciotki 1985: Write and Fight (Pismak) - Investigator 1986: Jezioro Bodenskie - Roullot 1986: Siegfried (Zygfryd) - Stefan Drawicz 1986: Weryfikacja - Gucio Nawrot 1988: Niezwykla podróz Baltazara Kobera - (voice) 1989: A Tale of Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve' (Lawa. Opowiesc o 'Dziadach' Adama Mickiewicza) - Hermit / Ghost / Gustaw-Konrad / Poet 1990: The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) (TV Series) - Woland 1994: Oczy niebieskie - Profesor Ani i Jacka 1995: Awantura o Basie - Professor Somer 1997: Ksiega wielkich zyczen - Adam Ostrowski 1999: With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem) - Senator Kisiel 2000: A Very Christmas Story (Świąteczna przygoda) - Good (voice) 2001: Listy milosne - Teresa's Father