Jan Władysław Güntner (born 17 June 1931) is a Polish actor, theatre director and activist.
Biography He was a cousin of Jerzy Nowak. He graduated from the State College of Acting in Kraków in 1953. There, his teachers included Adam Polewka, , Władysław Józef Dobrowolski, and Kazimierz Meierhold. Since the beginning of Piwnica pod Baranami activity in 1958 he was a regular participant of the cabaret, he was the first to declaim poems by his friend Andrzej Bursa on the stage.
Jan Güntner made his first steps in acting at Teatr Młodego Widza (the Young Viewer Theatre) led by Maria Biliżanka. He was an actor of Ludowy Theatre (1958–1971), National Stary Theatre (1972–1973; 1982–2000; guest starring 2005) and Bagatela Theatre (1976–1982). He starred in more than twenty plays of .
In 2000 he was awarded by President of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski with an Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
He was a member and vice-chairman of Kuźnica. He was married to until her death in 2013. He befriended Jerzy Vetulani.
Filmography
Source. (1962) as Filip, Joanna's colleague (1965) as Piotr, friend of Kamil Serce (1965; short animated film) (1975; TV series), episode 3 Sprawa osobista (1984; TV film) as antiquarian Kropaczewski; film from the film cycle (1986; TV series) as Doctor Bedweiser on a passenger train, episode 17 (1996) as a lawyer Kazimierz zamknięty (2004; short film) as an old man Ad maiorem pastae gloriam (2017; short film) as reverent Spaghettus
Television theatre
Source. Smok (1961) as Szarleman, archivist Pensjonat pod Aniołem Stróżem (1963) Dwa zmartwienia Obłomowa (1963) Rewizor (1964) as Bobczyński Gry i zabawy (1964) as Poboczny; also: assistant director Futro bobrowe (1970) as Motes Rh Inżynier (1978) as professor Pistjan Pastorałka (1979) as Prologus, Dameta, Pachoł 2 Odprawa posłów greckich (1982) Żałoba przystoi Elektrze (1983) as doctor Polski listopad (1983) as count Ostrowski Poeta Laureatus (1983) Dziady (1983) as Pelikan Granica (1984) as count Toczewski Prawdziwe Lemuela Gulliwera Przygody (1987) jako Guliwer, Hulgo, Glum Pięćdziesiąt dukatów (1987) as Nowicki Ostatni z Jagiellonów czyli Rzeczpospolita na rozdrożu (1988) as Kyiev voivode Reformator (1989) as old man with an umbrella Bruno (1989) as Emisariusz Zapach orchidei (1991) as Gęsikowski Sprawa Andersa (1993) Wiosna narodów w cichym zakątku (1997) as senator Strach na strychu (1998) as director
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