Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski | |
Birth Date: | 26 November 1880 |
Birth Place: | Venice, Italy |
Death Place: | Warsaw, Occupied Poland |
Death Cause: | Execution by shooting |
Occupation: | Film actor Stage actor |
Yearsactive: | 1902–1939 (film) |
Relations: | Jaga Juno (wife) |
Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski (26 November 1880 – 5 July 1943) was a Polish stage and film actor. He was a legendary figure in Polish cinema who had appeared in the earliest Polish films in 1902. Junosza-Stępowski was killed while trying to protect his wife from members of the Polish Home Army, who had discovered she was an informer for the Gestapo.[1]
He was married twice. His first wife was Helena Jankowska (d. 1915). In 1922 he married Iza Galewska.