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    Roman Polanski

    French-Polish director, screenwriter, producer and actor

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  1. Co-star John Huston Polanski returned to Hollywood in 1973 to direct Chinatown (1974) for Paramount Pictures. The film is widely considered to be one of the finest American mystery crime movies, inspired by the real-life California Water Wars, a series of disputes over southern California water at the beginning of the 20th century. It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including those for ...

    • Film director, producer, screenwriter, actor
    • Raymond Roman Thierry Liebling, 18 August 1933 (age 90), Paris, French Third Republic
    • 1953–present
    • 2, including Morgane
  2. Apr 2, 2024 · spouse Sharon Tate. Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933, Paris, France) is a French Polish director, scriptwriter, and actor who, through a variety of film genres, explored themes of isolation, desire, and absurdity. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Shortly after the young Polanski’s family settled in Kraków ...

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  3. Jan 30, 2018 · Forty years ago this week, Roman Polanski went from being one of the most celebrated film-makers in the world to becoming the United States’ most notorious fugitive from justice. On 1 February ...

  4. Roman Polanski. Director: Chinatown. Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933. His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years before World War II began. On Germany's invasion in 1939, as ...

    • August 18, 1933
  5. Jul 18, 2022 · Published 2:42 PM PDT, July 18, 2022. LOS ANGELES (AP) — The case involving Roman Polanski, who fled the United States after he forced himself on a 13-year-old girl during a photo shoot, has spanned 45 years, sparking court battles on both sides of the Atlantic. On Sunday, The Associated Press obtained an unsealed court transcript of the ...

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  7. Apr 2, 2014 · Born Raimund Polanski on August 18, 1933, in Paris, director Roman Polanski moved to Hollywood in 1968, making his American film debut with the classic Rosemary's Baby. In 1969, Polanski's ...

  8. 19 Videos. 99+ Photos. Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933. His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years before World War II began.

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