Władysław Godik

Władysław Godik (1 April 1892 – 18 December 1952) was a Polish Jewish singer, actor and director in Polish, Russian, and Yiddish theatre.

Biography

Born in Zlatopil, he moved with his family to Warsaw, where he did two semesters in the veterinarian institute in 1911. Due to political reasons, however, he had to leave for Russia in the same year, where he began to earn money by performing in the circus in Kharkov. Then he played in an operetta in Kiev.

He acted in the dramatic section of Hazemir and in 1911 he began acting professionally at Gershanovitsh in Vitebsk, playing Baynushl in Pintele Yid. During the First World War he took part in Krutshinin's Russian operettas and later some German operettas. In 1909 he appeared in Radom in Tsharnetski's Polish Operetta troupe, and played in Shulamis, then founded a Polish-language revue theater called Mirage. Half a year later he joined Zygmunt Turkow and Ester Rachel Kamińska's traveling troupe. He played for four years at the Central Theater and spent one year in Vilna with Morevski. His best-known film role is the tailor Liberman in Border Street directed by Aleksander Ford in 1948. By order of President of Poland, Bolesław Bierut issued on September 10, 1952, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for his merits in the field of culture and art.

Death Godik died on December 18, 1952, aged 60, and was buried in the Avenue of the Meritorious at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw. He was survived by his son, Giora Godik.

Filmography Tkies khaf (1924) Border Street (1948)