Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski Explained

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.

Selected filmography

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Notes and References

  1. Haltof p.11