Henryk Baranowski

Actor

Tarnopol, Tarnopolskie, Poland [now Ternopil, Ukraine]

February 9, 1943

Biography

Henryk Baranowski (9 February 1943 – 27 July 2013) was a Polish theatre, opera and film director, actor, stage designer, playwright, screenwriter and poet. He is best known for his starring role in Dekalog: One, directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, and also appeared in Rosa Luxemburg, directed by Margarethe von Trotta, and as Napoleon in Pan Tadeusz directed by Andrzej Wajda.