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Roman Polanski

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4.7

  • 1933 - Present Day

Biography

Roman Polanski (born 18 August 1933) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor. Born in Paris to Polish parents, Polanski relocated with his family to Poland in 1937. After surviving the Holocaust, he continued his education in Poland and became a critically acclaimed director of both art house and commercial films. Polanski's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water (1962), made in Poland, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has since received five more Oscar nominations, and in 2002 received the Academy Award for Best Director for his film, The Pianist. He has also been the recipient of two Baftas, four Césars, a Golden Globe and the Palme d'Or. He left Poland in 1961 to live in France for several years, then moved to the United Kingdom where he collaborated with Gérard Brach on three films, beginning with Repulsion (1965). In 1968 he moved to the United States, immediately cementing his burgeoning directing status with the 1968 groundbreaking Academy Award winning horror film Rosemary's Baby. In 1969, Polanski's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered while staying at the Polanski's Benedict Canyon home above Los Angeles by members of the Manson Family. Following Tate's death, Polanski returned to Europe and spent much of his time in Paris and Gstaad, but did not make another film until he filmed Macbeth (1971) in England. The following year he went to Italy to make What? (1973) and subsequently spent the next five years living near Rome. However, he traveled to Hollywood to direct Chinatown (1974) for Paramount Pictures, with Robert Evans serving as producer. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, and was a critical and box-office success; the script by Robert Towne won for Best Original Screenplay. Polanski's next film, The Tenant (1976), was shot in France, and completed the "Apartment Trilogy", following Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. In 1977, after a photo shoot in Los Angeles, Polanski was arrested for the sexual abuse of a 13 year old girl. He was charged with rape but pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor. To avoid sentencing, Polanski fled to his home in London, and then moved on to France the following day. He has had a U.S. arrest warrant outstanding since then, and an international arrest warrant since 2005. Polanski continued to make films such as The Pianist (2002), a World War II-set adaptation of Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman's autobiography of the same name, which echoed some of Polanski's earlier life experiences. Like Szpilman, Polanski escaped the ghetto and the concentration camps while family members were killed. The film won three Academy Awards including Best Director, the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, and seven French César Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. He then released the successful films Oliver Twist (2005), To Each His Own Cinema (2007), and The Ghost Writer (2010), completed while under house arrest. In September 2009, Polanski was arrested by Swiss police, at the request of U.S. authorities, when he traveled to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival. In October 2009, the U.S. requested his extradition; however, on July 12, 2010, the Swiss rejected that request and instead declared him a "free man" after releasing him from custody.

Birthday: 1933-08-18

Born At: Paris, France

Casted In:

Chinatown
829
The Fearless Vampire Killers
3053
Rush Hour 3
5174
Playboy: The Story of X
5704
Frantic
10675
Repulsion
11481
Le locataire
11482
Nóz w wodzie
11502
Una pura formalità
19223
Zemsta
19721
Caos Calmo
22274
The Magic Christian
24152
Blood for Dracula
25944
Pokolenie
43322
Dwaj ludzie z szafa
49340
Grosse fatigue
64567
Niewinni czarodzieje
80324
Che?
81522
Wraki
84529
Lampa
104141
Do widzenia, do jutra
118566
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
119415
Hommage à Alfred Lepetit
122841
Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out
126929
Une Journée particulière
136439
Le gros et le maigre
144690
Ljuset håller mig sällskap
150578
Gdy spadaja anioly
150630
Empire of the Censors
165852
Seduced and Abandoned
193645
Weekend of a Champion
196253
The Evolution of Snuff
200377
Samson
204196
Lotna
270728
Rosemary's Baby: A Retrospective
281624
Mia and Roman
281626
Weekend of a Champion
327016
Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life
378058
Back in the USSR
388556
Toil And Trouble: Making Macbeth
401949
Polanski Meets Macbeth
402104
Polanski par Polanski
429149
Trzy opowiesci
465041
Rower
465043
Godzina bez slonca
465046
Zaczarowany rower
465051
Co řekne žena?
465054
Chassé-croisé
465062
En attendant Godot
465168
Remembering 'Rosemary's Baby'
471389
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
481920

Crewed In:

Oliver Twist
257
The Pianist
423
The Ninth Gate
622
Rosemary's Baby
805
Chinatown
829
Le bateau sur l'herbe
2393
The Fearless Vampire Killers
3053
Cul-de-sac
4772
Bitter Moon
10497
Death and the Maiden
10531
Frantic
10675
Tess
11121
Macbeth
11316
The Ghost Writer
11439
Repulsion
11481
Le locataire
11482
Pirates
11483
Nóz w wodzie
11502
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
36108
Dwaj ludzie z szafa
49340
Carnage
72113
Les plus belles escroqueries du monde
78786
Che?
81522
A Day at the Beach
99802
Lampa
104141
Morderstwo
104144
A Therapy
114411
Rozbijemy zabawę
116459
Zezowate szczęście
121455
Le gros et le maigre
144690
Ssaki
146131
Gdy spadaja anioly
150630
Usmiech zebiczny
163041
Aimez-vous les femmes ?
172532
Weekend of a Champion
196253
La Vénus à la fourrure
197082
Le court des grands
318017
J’accuse
399121
D'après une histoire vraie
416051
Rower
465043
La fille d'en face
465176
Captain Jokes Parrot's Disaster of the Caribbean
465180
G.G. Passion
465189
Castelnuovo
465190
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