Władysław Hańcza | |
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Born | |
Died | 19 November 1977
Warsaw, Poland | (aged 72)
Occupation(s) | actor, stage director |
Władysław Hańcza (18 May 1905 – 19 November 1977) was a Polish actor and theatre director.
In 1924, he graduated high school in his hometown of Łódź. [1] Afterwards he studied philosophy and Polish philology at the University of Poznań. [1] In 1927, he made his actor debut in a theater in Poznań. [1]
He performed in theatres in Poznań, Katowice, Toruń and Łódź, before he joined the National Theatre in Warsaw in 1939. [1] During the German occupation in World War II, he joined an underground theater in Warsaw. In October 1944, he was deported by the Germans to a forced labour camp in Cottbus, and imprisoned there until the war ended in May 1945. [1]
After the war he was a lecturer at the State Theatre Academy in Warsaw.