Janusz Michałowski (1 January 1937 – 11 June 2026) was Polish theatre and film actor.
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Life and career
Janusz Michałowski was born in Augustów on 1 January 1937. A graduate of the Grzegorz Piramowicz 1st High School in Augustów and the State Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw (1960). He worked in theatres in Koszalin, Toruń, the Wojciech Bogusławski Theatre in Kalisz (1969–1973), and Poznań. From 1990 he was an actor at the Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw, and from 1999 he was associated with the Contemporary Theatre.
He started his collaboration with the Television Theatre at an early age, where he played, among others: Korowiov in The Master and Margarita directed by Maciej Wojtyszko, , Baszmachkin in The Overcoat by Izabella Cywińska, Green-eyed Man in Close Supervision by Izabella Cywińska, Münchhausen in The Truthful Liar by M. Wojtyszka (first-degree award of the Chairman of the Committee for Radio and Television in 1979 and 1988), Torquemada in the play Darkness Covers, the Earth by I. Cywińska, Assolant in Paths of Glory by Jerzy Antczak. in Doctor Nock by and many others. He collaborated with the Polish Radio Theatre. He was the husband of the director Izabella Cywińska.
Michałowski died on 11 June 2026, at the age of 89.
Theatre roles
Papkin in Aleksander Fredro's Revenge
Prisypkin in The Bedbug by Vladimir Mayakovsky (award at the festival in Katowice 1961)
Tarielkin in The Death of Tarielkin by Aleksandr Suchowo-Kobylin (award at the festival in Toruń 1966)
Sajetan in The Shoemakers by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (award at the festival in Kalisz 1971)
The title role in Judas of Karioth by Karol Hubert Rostworowski (award at the festival in Kalisz 1981)
Aslaksen in An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (award at the festival in Kalisz 1983)
Fujarkiewicz in Michał Bałucki's Open House (award at the festival in Opole 1984)
Felicjan Dulski in The Morality of Mrs. Dulska at the Television Theatre, directed by Tomasz Zygadło (1992)
Awards
Gold Cross of Merit (1984)
Badge of the 1000th Anniversary of the Polish State (1965)
Badge of Merit for Culture (1976)
Badge of Honor of the City of Poznań (1987)