Janusz Michałowski (1 January 1937 – 11 June 2026) was Polish theatre and film actor.
Life and career Janusz Michałowski was born in Augustów on 1 January 1937. A graduate of the Grzegorz Piramowicz 1st High School in Augustów and the State Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw (1960). He worked in theatres in Koszalin, Toruń, the Wojciech Bogusławski Theatre in Kalisz (1969–1973), and Poznań. From 1990 he was an actor at the Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw, and from 1999 he was associated with the Contemporary Theatre.
He started his collaboration with the Television Theatre at an early age, where he played, among others: Korowiov in The Master and Margarita directed by Maciej Wojtyszko, , Baszmachkin in The Overcoat by Izabella Cywińska, Green-eyed Man in Close Supervision by Izabella Cywińska, Münchhausen in The Truthful Liar by M. Wojtyszka (first-degree award of the Chairman of the Committee for Radio and Television in 1979 and 1988), Torquemada in the play Darkness Covers, the Earth by I. Cywińska, Assolant in Paths of Glory by Jerzy Antczak. in Doctor Nock by and many others. He collaborated with the Polish Radio Theatre. He was the husband of the director Izabella Cywińska.
Michałowski died on 11 June 2026, at the age of 89.
Filmography +YearTitleDirected ByRole1977Ostatnie dniBitkow1978... gdziekolwiek jestes, panie prezydencie...Doctor1977ZakretOsadnik1979NightmaresWaclaw Komenda1980Wizja lokalna 1901Photographer1980The PalaceTadeusz JunakJakub1981Przed maturaTadeusz Macewicz1981VabankJuliusz Machulski Commissioner Karelicki1983An Uneventful StoryPiotr1983SexmissionJuliusz MachulskiProfessor Wiktor Kuppelweiser1984Kartka z podrózyDawid's Father1984SyntezaPasser-by1984PismakWojciech Jerzy HasDoctor1984JajoProfessor Augustyniak1985Memoirs of a Sinner (Written by Himself)Wojciech Jerzy Has1986Ognisty aniolHans - Asystent Fausta1987ESDFater1987Luk Erosa Jerzy DomaradzkiProfessor Kałucki1988Royal DreamsGrzegorz WarchołWitold, Grand Duke of Lithuania, brother of Jagiełło 1989LawaTadeusz KonwickiFather Piotr1990SwinkaHans Weisenstein1990Bal na dworcu w KoluszkachRozbicki1991Polish cuisinepatron of Świątek1991Kobieta w ogrodzie1993The Bank of the Otherworld Nero (episode 8)1994Faustina: The Apostle of Divine Mercy1995Stone on StoneRyszard BerMichał1995BerenikaNieznajomy1996The Secret of SagalaArchmage1996Bank nie z tej ziemiNeron1996Przygody Joanny1997Boża podszewkaIzabella CywińskaKazimierz Lulewicz1998Darmozjad polskiFather1997–1998Boza podszewka199813th PrecinctMiracle Worker (Ep. 39)1998Tydzien z zycia mezczyzny1999A Week in the Life of a Man Professor Marzycki20002000–2012PlebaniaDr. Jakub Blumental2003The Magic TreeHusky dog seller (ep. 1)2004Tydzien z zycia mezczyzny20042009DancersAntoni Rapacki2009Magiczne drzewo2010Erratum Policeman2015Prosecutorpolice technician Henryk Skarżyński "Grandpa" (episodes 1–5)
Theatre roles
Papkin in Aleksander Fredro's Revenge Prisypkin in The Bedbug by Vladimir Mayakovsky (award at the festival in Katowice 1961) Tarielkin in The Death of Tarielkin by Aleksandr Suchowo-Kobylin (award at the festival in Toruń 1966) Sajetan in The Shoemakers by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (award at the festival in Kalisz 1971) The title role in Judas of Karioth by Karol Hubert Rostworowski (award at the festival in Kalisz 1981) Aslaksen in An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (award at the festival in Kalisz 1983) Fujarkiewicz in Michał Bałucki's Open House (award at the festival in Opole 1984) Felicjan Dulski in The Morality of Mrs. Dulska at the Television Theatre, directed by Tomasz Zygadło (1992)
Awards
Gold Cross of Merit (1984) Badge of the 1000th Anniversary of the Polish State (1965) Badge of Merit for Culture (1976) Badge of Honor of the City of Poznań (1987)
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