Jerzy Skolimowski

Jerzy Skolimowski (b. May 5, 1938 in Lodz, Poland) is a Polish film director, scriptwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious Polish Film School in Lodz, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films in and outside of Poland since his 1960 debut Oko wykol (The Menacing Eye). Jerzy Skolimowski is a distinguished accomplished director, writer and actor. He is now living in Los Angeles for some years where he paints in a figurative, expressionist mode and acts occasionally in films.

Trivia

• Skolimowski has said that he makes films to please himself.
• He was expelled from school more than once.
• Accomplished jazz drummer
• Skolimowski described his friend Andrzej Munk as his "patron"
• Skolimowski?s film Hands Up! (Rece do gory, 1967) was banned from distribution. It appeared as a surprise special event at the Cannes Festival in 1981.
• Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987