Eugeniusz Bodo

Eugeniusz Bodo was a film director, producer and one of the most popular Polish actors and comedians of the interwar period. He starred in some of the most popular Polish film productions of the 1930s, including His Excellency, The Shop Assistant , Czy Lucyna to dziewczyna and Pieniarz Warszawy. A skilled singer, he became one of the icons of Polish musical comedies of the time and a symbol of Polish commercial cinema. Towards the end of that decade he also became a successful entrepreneur, a coowner of a successful film studio, a caf and a producers company. Arrested by the Soviets in the aftermath of the German and Soviet invasion of Poland, he perished in the Gulag.

Bohdan Eugne Junod was born onDecember 1899. His birthplace however is not certain, sources mention Warsaw, d and Geneva, Switzerland. His mother was Jadwiga Anna Dorota ne Dylewska. His father, Teodor Junod, was a Swiss citizen who moved to Russianheld Poland and in 1903 settled in d. There he opened a revuecinema Urania the first permanent cinema theatre in that city. It was there that Bodo made his stage debut at the age of six.

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