POLISH NEWS
October 17, 2020
On Saturday, Ryszard Ronczewski, a longtime actor of the Wybrzeże Theater, died. According to the website of the City Hall in Gdańsk, Ronczewski contracted coronavirus. He was 90 years old.
According to the website of the Gdańsk municipality, in recent weeks the actor has participated in the shooting of the new film by Wojciech Smarzowski. “Due to his age and lung disease, he belonged to the high-risk group – therefore the test confirmation that he was infected with coronavirus did not bode well” – wrote on the website of the City Hall in Gdańsk.
On June 27 this year, Ryszard Ronczewski turned 90 years old.
The actor died on Saturday at his home in Sopot.
Ryszard Ronczewski was born on June 27, 1930 in Puszkarnia near Vilnius. He was a graduate of the PWST in Łódź. In the years 1956-57 he was an actor of the Nowy Theater in Łódź, and from 1957 to 1960 an actor of the Warsaw Operetta. In 1960-69 and 1970-74 he worked as the artistic director of Estrada Sopot.
In the 1960s, together with Alina and Jerzy Afanasjew and Janusz Hajdun, he created the Afanasjeff Family Circus, which – next to STS and Bim-Bom – was one of the most interesting avant-garde student theaters in post-war Poland.
From 1974 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1984 he was an actor in the Musical Theater. Danuta Baduszkowa in Gdynia, and in the years 1966-74 and 1984-2005 a full-time actor of the Wybrzeże Theater.
According to e-theater, which was the first to announce the artist’s death, Ronczewski also collaborated with the Atelier Theater in Sopot.
He was a laureate of many artistic awards, incl. awards of the Gdańsk Voivode for 1995 for the role of the Kataryniarz in WOYZECK Buchner at the Wybrzeże Theater.
Ronczewski appeared in several dozen films, incl. in: “Teutonic Knights”, “Pharonie”, “Satan of the Seventh Class”, “About Two Who Stole the Moon”, “Bad Luck” and “Wolf’s Echoes”.
RONCZEWSKI, Ryszard
Born: 6/27/1930, Puszkarnia, Wilesakie, Poland
Died: 10/17, 2020, Sopot, Poland
Ryszard Ronczewski’s western – actor:
Alaska Kid (TV) – 1993 (shaman)
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