Ryszard Ordyński

Ryszard Ordyński (October 5, 1878 – August 13, 1953) was a Polish actor, writer and theatre and film director.

Biography

Ryszard Ordyński was born in Maków Podhalański as Dawid Blumenfeld to Ignacy Blumenfeld-Ordyński, a senior railway official and Emilia Blumenfeld, née Herlinger. He spent his childhood and youth in Kraków, where he studied at the Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Philosophy. In 1900 he changed his name to Ryszard Stanisław Kazimierz Ordyński. Of Polish background, he left for Paris in 1937 and then following the German invasion of France he went to Hollywood. In 1947 he returned to Poland.

His first wife (1903 – 1910 or 1911) was Julia Stefania, née Stadnik, a painter. Hist second wife was the German actress Camilla Eibenschütz (1913, for a brief time). The only known about his third wife is that she was possibly an American and they had a daughter. The fourth wife (1941) was Anna née Steckiewicz, who died in 1970. The Ten from Pawiak Prison (1931) The Palace on Wheels (1932) (1935) American Adventure (1936)