Zdzisław Kozień

Zdzisław Kozień

Born: December 4, 1924
Died: March 25, 1998
in Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
Pracę artystyczną rozpoczął w czasach okupacji jako aktor-amator. W latach 1948-1952 występował w Teatrze Kolejarza w Krakowie. Od 1953 związany z Teatrem im. Wandy Siemaszkowej w Rzeszowie. Stworzył tu wiele wybitnych kreacji aktorskich, m.in. Cześnika w "Zemście", Majora w "Fantazym", Wojewody w "Mazepie" czy Czepca w "Weselu". W latach 1972-1982 pracował w Teatrze Polskim i Współczesnym we Wrocławiu. Od 1983 ponownie występował w Rzeszowie.

Wystąpił w wielu filmach fabularnych (m.in. Człowiek z marmuru jako ojciec Agnieszki) oraz serialach telewizyjnych (m. in. Królowa Bona jako Zygmunt I Stary). Widzowie zapamiętali jego rolę w popularnym serialu telewizyjnym 07 zgłoś się, gdzie zagrał porucznika Antoniego Zubka.

Odznaczony m.in. Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski.

Pochowany na Cmentarzu Komunalnym Wilkowyja w Rzeszowie.

Movies for Zdzisław Kozień...

Polowanie na Króla Lira
Title: Polowanie na Króla Lira
Character: Markiewicz
Released: May 2, 1993
Type: Movie
A couple of Warsaw actors come to a small town to play in a play staged there. When one of them disappears, the theater director begins a private investigation.
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Title: Akwen Eldorado
Character: Dyrektor PGR-u
Released: October 24, 1989
Type: TV
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Republika nadziei
Title: Republika nadziei
Character: Szembek
Released: October 14, 1988
Type: Movie
The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in the preparations for the Greater Poland Uprising.
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Porcelain in an Elephant's Shop
Title: Porcelain in an Elephant's Shop
Character: God
Released: August 26, 1988
Type: Movie
An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.
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Sonata marymoncka
Title: Sonata marymoncka
Character: Orzechowski
Released: May 16, 1988
Type: Movie
Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland.
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Gwiazda Piołun
Title: Gwiazda Piołun
Character: Pop
Released: April 21, 1988
Type: Movie
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Powrót po śmierć
Title: Powrót po śmierć
Character: lawyer
Released: December 2, 1987
Type: Movie
One June evening, a Krakow prostitute nicknamed Rączka is accosted by a bloody man who wants to spend the night with her. The girl agrees, but when the next day she learns that a gruesome crime has been committed near the place where the mysterious customer accosted her, she reports the night's meeting to the police.
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Freelancer
Title: Freelancer
Character: Stolarek
Released: October 28, 1987
Type: Movie
Piotr is a freelancing journalist in early 1980's Poland. One day, he comes across a curious case of a woman's death during work and the workplace's refusal to pay the insurance to her mother.
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The Golden Mahmudia
Title: The Golden Mahmudia
Released: March 2, 1987
Type: Movie
Two youngsters vacationing at the Black Sea sneak onto a mysterious ship and spy the peculiar activities of a treasure-seeking crew. They are discovered and imprisoned as the ship heads for an uncharted island. Their parents put together an expedition and after numerous adventures the treasure hunters are apprehended and the mystery of a secret cove is solved.
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Trzy stopy nad ziemią
Title: Trzy stopy nad ziemią
Character: Ewald Zyman
Released: October 3, 1986
Type: Movie
Set in the 70's. A young man decides that after dropping out of school, going to the army is not for him. He decides to become a voluntary miner. He lives with his buddies in barracks, where the only entertainment is ping-pong, and dreams of the opposite sex.
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Big Bang
Title: Big Bang
Character: "Naukowiec"
Released: March 30, 1986
Type: Movie
A UFO lands at night in a typical Masovian village. The villagers feel honored and want to be as hospitable as possible for the unexpected alien guests.
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Title: Szaleństwa Panny Ewy
Character: Stanisław Mudrowicz
Released: October 13, 1985
Type: TV
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Piętno
Title: Piętno
Character: Bolesław Mazur
Released: June 3, 1985
Type: Movie
Józef comes to his hometown on the anniversary of the murder of his father - a peasant activist, and explores the circumstances of his death.
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Alabama
Title: Alabama
Released: April 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Polish film directed by Ryszard Rydzewski.
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Szaleństwa Panny Ewy
Title: Szaleństwa Panny Ewy
Character: Stanisław Mudrowicz
Released: January 7, 1985
Type: Movie
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Jan
Title: Jan
Character: Przestalski
Released: August 19, 1984
Type: Movie
The writer Jan Kellert - the author of the widely known book "The Legend of the Vistula", which is part of the canon of pre-war middle school reading, comes from Lublin to Żmurki, where he spent the occupation. The division of the Żmurki estate is to take place the next day. The welcome dinner becomes an opportunity to exchange political views and a critical view of the manor's inhabitants on the current situation.
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Przeklęta ziemia
Title: Przeklęta ziemia
Character: Parish priest
Released: October 24, 1983
Type: Movie
Jan, the café pianist, comes from the countryside. The talented boy was taken care of by an old organist. Jan then studied at the conservatory, where he made friends with Paweł, an undisciplined but very talented composer. Paweł's works gain publicity abroad, but he himself, unable to bear human envy and accept the loss of his beloved girl, commits suicide ... Jan's father dies, and soon his mother ...
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An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill
Title: An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill
Character: Zygmunt I Stary
Released: March 14, 1983
Type: Movie
Drama about historical figure Barbara Radziwiłł, her romance with King Sigismund II August, her death and her posthumous return to Vilnius.
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Environs of a Quiet Sea
Title: Environs of a Quiet Sea
Character: Recruiter
Released: February 7, 1983
Type: Movie
Captain Roman Markowski is a sailor. One day, after returning from the sea, his ex-wife calls him. It turns out that their son has disappeared. It also turns out that the boy got to the Maritime School. The captain's life gets complicated when his son suffers a serious accident.
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Polonia Restituta
Title: Polonia Restituta
Character: ksiądz wygłaszający kazanie na ambonie
Released: May 18, 1981
Type: Movie
A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.
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Title: Misja
Character: republikanin
Released: March 7, 1981
Type: TV
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Title: Królowa Bona
Character: król Zygmunt I Stary
Released: December 24, 1980
Type: TV
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Smak wody
Title: Smak wody
Character: Józef
Released: November 21, 1980
Type: Movie
Maria does not understand her husband. The woman goes to the family home where her sister lives.
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The Palace
Title: The Palace
Character: ksiądz
Released: November 10, 1980
Type: Movie
Set in 1944. A shepherd boy enters an abandoned palace he has seen only from the distance since he was a boy. Once he enters the palace, strange things begin to happen as though he was dreaming the events rather than living them.
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Title: Dom
Character: dyrektor FSO
Released: November 9, 1980
Type: TV
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Wściekły
Title: Wściekły
Released: January 7, 1980
Type: Movie
Detective thriller about a killer loose in the crowds. The film follows a sniper on his rounds looking for victims, while a police inspector, with few clues in hand, has to figure out the motive for the killings as well as who the psychopath is and where he might strike next. He uncovers that the mentally deranged sniper can't stand seeing people happy together in public places.
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Coded Message for the Boss
Title: Coded Message for the Boss
Released: November 29, 1979
Type: Movie
Wolf Brandin is in his mid-twenties and lives with his wife and child in East Berlin at the end of the 1950s. In West Berlin, the student of electrical engineering is recruited by the American secret service CIA. But Brandin immediately notifies the State Security of the German Democratic Republic and from then on lives a dangerous life as a double agent. When Brandin reaches the breaking point, his marriage starts to unravel because Brandin is not allowed to tell his family about his double life.
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Sto koni do stu brzegów
Title: Sto koni do stu brzegów
Character: Zdanowicz
Released: June 18, 1979
Type: Movie
World War II. Lieutenant Bogdan Mayer is tasked with delivering a sample of valuable metal alloy from Warsaw to London.
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Quiet Is the Night
Title: Quiet Is the Night
Character: Doctor
Released: November 17, 1978
Type: Movie
A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
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Merry Christmas
Title: Merry Christmas
Character: dygnitarz, kolega "Wibracyjnego"
Released: December 21, 1977
Type: Movie
Two men go to Warsaw to sell Christmas trees and meet old friends.
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Czysta chirurgia
Title: Czysta chirurgia
Character: Surgeon
Released: September 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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A Small Town Love Affair
Title: A Small Town Love Affair
Character: ksiądz Ryba
Released: April 6, 1977
Type: Movie
The young protagonist, Elżbieta, grew up in a small town bourgeois house. She rebels against the town's atmosphere and imagines that a love affair with a poet from a big city will liberate her. However, the love affair lasts only for a fleeting moment. It is the young engineers who arrive in the town to build a factory who are the real harbinger of changes in the town itself and the minds of its inhabitants. Based on a novel by Kornel Filipowicz.
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Title: Znaki szczególne
Character: członek kierownictwa budowy portu
Released: February 28, 1977
Type: TV
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Man of Marble
Title: Man of Marble
Character: Agnieszka's Father
Released: February 25, 1977
Type: Movie
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
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Before the Day Breaks
Title: Before the Day Breaks
Released: February 21, 1977
Type: Movie
A boy escapes from a reformatory, but comes again into conflict with the law. During a robbery he hits a woman with a bottle on the head. He is convinced he killed her and because of his past thinks that nothing matters anymore. Only when he finds out that the victim did not die, he reveals the truth about what happened.
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Title: Calling 07
Character: Antoni Zubek
Released: November 25, 1976
Type: TV
The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.
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Convicted
Title: Convicted
Character: brat Ryszarda
Released: February 2, 1976
Type: Movie
A man is tried in court for failing to help his brother to avoid suicide.
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Title: Droga
Character: szef komitetu przeciwpowodziowego
Released: January 3, 1975
Type: TV
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Rancho Texas
Title: Rancho Texas
Character: Ulek
Released: April 27, 1959
Type: Movie
Two zootechnics students, Jacek and Marek, come to the Bieszczady (it's the Polish "Wild West"). Looking for a holiday adventure and income, they become "cowboys" on local cattle grazing. Instead of the expected romantic adventures and the male, hard life, their boredom is becoming their share. Only when Jacek gets a stallion Szaga, things take a different turn.