Harry Cort

Stanisław Józef Bielski, performing as Harry Cort (19 March 1908, Trzeszczany - 30 January 1979, Phoenix, Arizona) was a Polish film and theater actor, criminal, and subject of scandal.

Life Stanisław came from a noble family that initially used Jelita coat of arms, but then (falsely) claimed the rights to the princely title and the coat of arms Pogoń Litewska of long-extinct Gedyminowicz-Bielski branch. At the end of World War I, he supposedly (according to his own accounts) travelled with his father Jan Edward Bielski, covering Southern Europe, Africa and Asia. After returning to Poland, in 1924 he joined the Corps of Cadets No. 1 in Lviv, and in 1925 he passed his final exams at the st. Kazimierz Men's Gymnasium in Warsaw.

After returning to Poland in 1929, thanks to the protection of the journalist Maria Jehanne Wielopolska, he landed a role in the film 9.25. Przygoda jednej nocy (9.25. One Night Adventure). To fit the lover character created there, he adopted the pseudonym Harry Cort. On the set he met the poet Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, and started a romance (Iwaszkiewicz dedicated two poems to Cort: Pożar w atelier and Do S.B.). Soon afterwards, Bielski was involved in a moral scandal, seducing the wife of a bank director in 1930 and stealing her jewelry, which he then pawned (eventually escaping punishment). In 1932, he passed the acting exam and was admitted to Związek Artystów Scen Polskich (Union of Polish Stage Artists). e performed in the following theatres: Kameralny and 8:30 in Warsaw (1932) and the Grand Theater in Poznań (1933). In May 1933, the actor had a car accident when the vehicle he was driving crashed into a tree on the road near Murowana Goślina. He returned to acting after a month, appearing in revues and vaudevilles in Ciechocinek, Vilnius, Lviv and Kraków (collaborating with Jerzy Marr).

Over the next years Stanisław Bielski traveled around Europe, moving in social elite circles, where he used his princely title as a claim to higher spheres. The Razor's Edge (1946) – man in the bar