Jerzy Skolimowski (Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ skɔliˈmɔfskʲi]; born 5 May 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist, actor and painter. Beginning as a screenwriter for Andrzej Wajda's Innocent Sorcerers (1960), Skolimowski has made more than twenty films since his directorial debut The Menacing Eye (1960). In 1967 he was awarded the Golden Bear prize for his Belgian film The Departure (1967). Among his other notable films is Deep End (1970), starring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown as well as The Shout, starring Alan Bates, Susannah York and John Hurt, Moonlighting (1982), starring Jeremy Irons and Essential Killing, starring Vincent Gallo He lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and occasionally acted in films. He returned to Poland, and to filmmaking as a writer and director, after a 17-year hiatus with Four Nights with Anna (2008). He received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. His film EO (2022) was awarded the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerzy Skolimowski, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Good Boy — Producer
• A Decent Man — Professor Jerzy
• Still Here — Stanisław Czułkowski
• 2023The Palace — Writer, Executive Producer
• 2022EO — Producer, Director, Screenplay
• 2022The Silent Twins — Thanks
• At Home - Poland — Director
• 2020It's Not Us — Director
• 2019A Man in Love — Editorial Staff
• 2018Julius — Olgierd 'Chorwat' Szybenik
• 2018The Stolen Caravaggio — Jerzy Kunze
• 201511 Minutes — Producer, Director, Screenplay
• 2013Ida — Thanks
• 2012Ixjana — Co-Producer
• 2012The Avengers — Georgi Luchkov
• 2012The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 — John III Sobieski
• 2010Essential Killing — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• Naznaczony — Wojciech Radler
• 2008Four Nights with Anna — Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 2007Eastern Promises — Stepan
• Parola (su una data)
• 2000Before Night Falls — Professor
• 1999L.A. Without a Map — Minister
• 1999Operacja Samum — Hayes
• 1996Mars Attacks! — Dr. Zeigler
• 1993The Hollow Men — Producer
• 199130 Door Key — dyrektor szkoły, Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1990Skolimowski à la table
• 1989Torrents of Spring — Wiktor Wiktorowicz, Director, Screenplay
• 1987Big Shots — Doc
• 1985Hands Up! — Andrzej Leszczyc, Zastawa (1967 footage) / Self (1981 footage), Director, Screenplay
• 1985Mesmerized — Writer
• 1985The Lightship — Director
• 1985White Nights — Colonel Chaiko
• 1984Success Is the Best Revenge — Producer, Screenplay, Director
• 1982Moonlighting — Boss (uncredited), Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 1981Circle of Deceit — Hoffmann
• 1978The Shout — Screenplay, Director
• 1972A Slip-Up — Auto Shop Owner, Screenplay
• 1972King, Queen, Knave — Director
• 1971Deep End — Tube Passenger With Newspaper (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
• 1970The Adventures of Gerard — Screenplay, Director
• 1968Dialogue 20-40-60 — Screenplay, Director
• 1968The Twenty-Year-Olds — Director
• 1967The Departure — Director, Screenplay
• 1966Barrier — Waiter - Announcer (voice) (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
• NET Playhouse — Writer
• 1966Sposób bycia — Leopold
• 1965Identification Marks: None — Andrzej Leszczyc, Art Direction, Director, Screenplay
• 1965The Friend — Dialogue
• 1965Walkover — Andrzej Leszczyc, Director, Screenplay
• 1962Beautiful — Director
• 1962Knife in the Water — Screenplay, Dialogue
• 1962Night Fare — Screenplay, Producer
• 1962The Nude — Director
• 1961Boxing — Director, Screenplay
• 1961Erotique — Director, Writer
• 1961Your Money or Your Life — Director, Writer
• 1960Innocent Sorcerers — Boxer (uncredited), Screenplay
• 1960Little Hamlet — Director
• 1960The Menacing Eye — Director, Writer
• Angel of Death — Director, Producer

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2011'Deep End': Remembering the Deleted Scenes — Self
• 2011Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End — Self
• 2010Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life — Self
• Le Cercle — Self
• Ciné regards — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• Altın Koza — Self - Winner
• German Film Award — Self