Ryszard Ordyński (October 5, 1878 – August 13, 1953) was a Polish actor, writer and theatre and film director.Szymanski-Düll & Skwirblies p.245
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.
He spent many years outside his native country. In Berlin he worked with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. During the Second Polish Republic he was a noted director.Haltof p.170 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.Agnieszka Modrzejewska, ,,PAN RYŚ – WŁÓCZĘGA” Opowieść o reżyserze Ryszardzie Ordyńskim
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.
Selected filmography The Rose of Blood (1917) Pan Tadeusz (1928) (1930)Joanna Chojnacka, Eksperci wybrali listę 70 najważniejszych polskich filmów w historii. Od "Potopu" do "Dnia świra", gazeta.pl, October 28, 2025 The Ten from Pawiak Prison (1931) The Palace on Wheels (1932) (1935) American Adventure (1936)
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