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Roman Polanski
Roman Polański (born 18 August 1933) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor. Born in Paris to Polish parents, Polański 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. Polański'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, Polański's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered while staying at the Polańskis' Benedict Canyon home above Los Angeles by members of the Manson Family. Following Tate's death, Polański 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. Polański'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, Polański 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, Polański 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. Polański 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 Polański's earlier life experiences. Like Szpilman, Polański 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, Polański 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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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May 17th, 2023 | The Family | Self | 6 | |
September 30th, 2019 | An Officer and a Spy | Concertgoer (uncredited) | 7.1 | |
August 13th, 2019 | Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind | Self (archive footage) | 6.7 | |
July 10th, 2018 | Françoise Dorléac, une promesse | Self | 6 | |
May 16th, 2015 | Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans | Self (archive footage) | 7.2 | |
September 23rd, 2014 | Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth' | Self | 5 | |
August 24th, 2014 | Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau | Self (archive footage) | 6.7 | |
October 9th, 2013 | Weekend of a Champion | Himself | 6.4 | |
May 20th, 2013 | Seduced and Abandoned | Self | 6.2 | |
October 9th, 2012 | Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir | Self | 6.5 | |
September 30th, 2012 | Close Up | Self (archive footage) | 9.5 | |
September 9th, 2012 | Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out | Self (archive footage) | 6 | |
September 16th, 2011 | Carnage | Neighbor | 7.2 | |
May 7th, 2010 | Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life | Self | 7.8 | |
July 3rd, 2008 | Il falso bugiardo | Self (archive footage) | TBD | |
February 8th, 2008 | Quiet Chaos | Steiner | 6.5 | |
January 18th, 2008 | Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired | Self (archive footage) | 6.3 | |
August 8th, 2007 | Rush Hour 3 | Det. Revi | 6.5 | |
December 3rd, 2006 | Polanski par Polanski | Self | TBD | |
August 25th, 2003 | Two Gangsters and an Island | Self | 7.5 | |
August 1st, 2003 | Knife in the Water: A Ticket to the West | Self | 8 | |
October 29th, 2002 | Sharon Tate: Murdered Innocence | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 6.5 | |
October 3rd, 2000 | Rosemary's Baby: A Retrospective | Self | 5 | |
February 16th, 2000 | Tribute to Alfred Lepetit | Self | 5 | |
January 2nd, 2000 | Last Pictures | Self | TBD | |
July 25th, 1999 | The Last Days of Sharon Tate | Self (archive footage) | TBD | |
January 1st, 1998 | Playboy: The Story of X | Self (archive footage) | 6.8 | |
December 12th, 1996 | Elle s'appelait Françoise | Self | 9 | |
May 28th, 1995 | Empire of the Censors | Self | 5.3 | |
May 15th, 1994 | A Pure Formality | Inspector | 7.4 | |
February 7th, 1992 | Back in the USSR | Kurilov | 5 | |
January 1st, 1984 | Clive James Meets Roman Polanski | TBD | TBD | |
May 26th, 1976 | The Tenant | Trelkovsky | 7.6 | |
August 13th, 1974 | Blood for Dracula | Gambler | 5.7 | |
June 20th, 1974 | Chinatown | Man with Knife | 7.9 | |
December 7th, 1972 | What? | Mosquito | 5.4 | |
July 1st, 1972 | Con bravura | Caroler | TBD | |
February 24th, 1972 | Weekend of a Champion | Self | 7.3 | |
January 1st, 1972 | Polanski Meets Macbeth | Self | TBD | |
October 28th, 1970 | Ciao, Federico! | Self (uncredited) | 7.2 | |
December 12th, 1969 | The Magic Christian | Solitary Drinker | 5.7 | |
July 9th, 1968 | Mia and Roman | Himself | 6 | |
January 1st, 1968 | The New Cinema | Self | TBD | |
November 13th, 1967 | The Fearless Vampire Killers | Alfred | 6.9 | |
September 26th, 1967 | Tonite Let's All Make Love in London | Self | 4.5 | |
June 1st, 1965 | Repulsion | Spoon Player | 7.4 | |
March 9th, 1962 | Knife in the Water | Young Man (voice) | 7.3 | |
December 1st, 1961 | The Fat and the Lean | the lean | 6.1 | |
December 17th, 1960 | Innocent Sorcerers | Dudzio | 7 | |
May 25th, 1960 | Good Bye, Till Tomorrow | Romek | 6.6 | |
April 4th, 1960 | Bad Luck | Tutor (uncredited) | 6.8 | |
October 14th, 1959 | When Angels Fall | Old Woman | 6.6 | |
January 1st, 1959 | The Lamp | A passer-by (uncredited) | 6 | |
April 22nd, 1958 | Two Men and a Wardrobe | Bad Boy | 6.4 | |
September 2nd, 1957 | Wraki | Romek | 5.1 | |
April 20th, 1957 | Kanal | Resistance Member pushed into a Sewer (uncredited) | 7.7 | |
October 29th, 1956 | Nikodem Dyzma | Porter (uncredited) | 4.7 | |
January 26th, 1955 | A Generation | Mundek | 7 | |
TBD | The Stalking Moon | Fabrice Fournier | TBD | |
December 18th, 2025 | Breakdown: 1975 | Self - Director of Chinatown (archive footage) | 6.8 | |
April 23rd, 2025 | Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) | 6 | |
March 6th, 2025 | Chaos: The Manson Murders | Self | 6.1 | |
January 19th, 2022 | Deneuve, la reine Catherine | Self (archive footage) | 7.8 | |
December 31st, 2021 | Françoise Dorléac, from The Man from Rio to The Young Girls of Rochefort | self | 8 | |
August 20th, 2021 | Polanski, Horowitz. The Wizards From the Ghetto | Self | 5.9 | |
August 13th, 2020 | In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat | Self | 2 | |
November 4th, 2019 | Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre | Self | 6 | |
August 7th, 2019 | Valerie | TBD | 1.8 | |
January 29th, 2017 | Mansfield 66/67 | Self - Filmmaker(archive footage) | 4.8 | |
August 15th, 2015 | Face of Evil: The Charles Manson Murders | TBD | 2 | |
July 17th, 2015 | Roman by Polanski | TBD | TBD | |
July 27th, 2014 | Henri Langlois vu par... | Self | 4 | |
September 28th, 2012 | Komeda, Komeda... | Self | TBD | |
May 16th, 2012 | A Special Day | Self | 6 | |
January 1st, 2012 | Remembering 'Rosemary's Baby' | Self | 6 | |
June 28th, 2010 | Cracow by Polanski | TBD | TBD | |
April 11th, 2010 | Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là | Self (archive footage) | 7.2 | |
November 3rd, 2009 | Memories of a Young Pianist | Man in Tavern (archive footage) | 5 | |
March 14th, 2009 | On the Trail of the New Wave | Self (archive footage) | TBD | |
November 22nd, 2008 | Bicycle | Boy who wants to buy a bicycle | 5 | |
March 16th, 2007 | Once Upon a Time... 'Tess' | Self | 6 | |
February 13th, 2006 | The Best of Twist: Sets, Costumes & Photography | TBD | 3 | |
January 24th, 2006 | Twist by Polanski | TBD | 3 | |
September 28th, 2004 | Tess: From Novel to Screen | Self | 8 | |
September 28th, 2004 | Filming 'Tess' | Self | 9 | |
September 28th, 2004 | Tess: The Experience | Self | 8.5 | |
March 9th, 2003 | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | Self | 7.1 | |
March 9th, 2003 | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | Self(archive footage) | 7.1 | |
January 1st, 2003 | A British Horror Film | Self | 5.6 | |
October 4th, 2002 | The Revenge | Józef Papkin | 5.6 | |
April 16th, 2002 | Polanski y los ojos del mal | Himself | 8 | |
April 16th, 2002 | Heart of the Festival | Self (archive footage) | 6.5 | |
December 18th, 2001 | The Unbeatable Bruce Lee | TBD | 8.4 | |
August 26th, 2000 | Light Keeps Me Company | Self | 7.9 | |
February 1st, 2000 | The Ten Commandments of Creativity | Self | 8.3 | |
January 1st, 1997 | Dracula: The True Story | Himself | 6.5 | |
April 11th, 1995 | Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski | TBD | 2 | |
May 18th, 1994 | Dead Tired | Roman Polanski | 6 | |
January 1st, 1992 | Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time | Self (archive footage) | 5.2 | |
January 1st, 1992 | Dracula in the Movies | TBD | 10 | |
June 3rd, 1989 | En attendant Godot | Lucky | 5 | |
February 19th, 1988 | Frantic | Taxi Driver (uncredited) | 6.7 | |
March 24th, 1982 | Chassé-croisé | TBD | 3 | |
September 1st, 1979 | Ciné regards: Tess: Roman Polanski | Self | TBD | |
November 30th, 1978 | The Evolution of Snuff | TBD | 3.9 | |
December 20th, 1967 | Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage | Himself | 5 | |
February 27th, 1967 | The Nomad | Self | TBD | |
January 1st, 1967 | Lionpower from MGM | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 6.3 | |
July 22nd, 1964 | The River of Diamonds | Random Citizen | 7.5 | |
September 11th, 1961 | Samson | Partner of Malina's Blackmailer (uncredited) | 4.8 | |
January 20th, 1961 | Ostrożnie yeti | Driver | 3.8 | |
September 27th, 1959 | Lotna | Musician (uncredited) | 5.8 | |
September 26th, 1958 | What Will My Wife Say to This? | Dancer | 3.3 | |
December 21st, 1957 | Koniec nocy | 'Mały' | 4.8 | |
December 25th, 1955 | Magical Bicycle | Adaś | 4.5 | |
October 25th, 1955 | Trzy starty | Basia's Brother | 7 | |
January 1st, 1955 | Godzina bez słońca | TBD | 1 | |
April 24th, 1953 | Three Stories | Genek "Mały" (segment 2) | 5 |