Janusz Gajos

A popular Polish actor, he starred in numerous other films and theatrical plays, notably in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors: White. In 2003 he appeared in the indie film Dogville. He debuted in 1964 (while still in the film school) in a film for young audience "Panienka z okienka." Shortly afterwards he was cast in a role of Janek Kos in a widely popular TV WWII series "Czterej pancerni i pies" (The Tank Crew and the Dog). Now in his seventies, Gazzara is still acting. He graduated in 1965 from the Polish Film and Theater Academy in Lodz. In the 1990's he appeared in 38 films, mainly "made for TV" productions. Janusz Gajos (born September 23, 1939 in Dabrowa Gornicza in Poland) is a Polish actor. His most famous acting roles include Quicker Than the Eye (1989), High Velocity (1977), Voyage of the Damned (1976), Capone (1975), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), A Rage to Live (1965), and Anatomy of a Murder (1959).

He has had a long and varied acting career, with spells as an accomplished director too. However he lost out on the film role to Paul Newman. He studied at the Actor's Studio in the 1950's and starred in various Broadway productions, most notably "Cat on a hot tin roof". Ben Gazzara, born Biagio Anthony Gazzara, (August 28, 1930), is an actor born in New York City, he grew up on New York's tough Lower East Side.