According to unconfirmed information, before World War I he performed in Lodz and in Kiev with Franciszek Rychlowski. What is known is that in the 1915/16 season he was a vaudevillian at the Mirage and Palais de Glace theaters in Warsaw. At that time he used the pseudonym Prus. In 1918-20 in Nowonikolajewsk in Siberia, he commanded the Non-Commissioned Officer's School of the 15th Cavalry Regiment, in 1919, there he was a pillar and artistic director of the military theater of the Polish Siberian Division. At that time, he created the extremely popular character of Grandfather singing couplets, which he successfully recreated in subsequent stagings of Nativity Play. In 1919-1920 he took part in the civil war in Russia. In the interwar period, he was probably a professional military man. After returning to Poland, he continued his military service. He worked as a lecturer at the Cavalry Training Center in Grudziadz. In the early 1930s, he ended his military career with the rank of cavalry captain. In the 1930s he was a military adviser and expert in the production of several patriotic feature films. Just before the outbreak of the war, he independently made several documentaries and propaganda films for the Polish Telegraphic Agency. During World War II, he was a soldier of the Home Army, a major in the underground Security Corps, during the Warsaw Uprising, a section commander of the "Sokól" Battalion. In May 1945, as a sailing captain, he joined the Warsaw branch of the Watermen's Trade Unions. Wanted by the security services, he left the country in 1946 and lived in exile until the end of his life, initially in Italy (Ancona), then in London, where he was the artistic director and director of Czolówka Teatralna of the 1st Polish Corps, as well as the author of revues staged by this company. On September 2, 1947, it was reactivated by the local ZASP as a real member. In the following years, he played at the Polish Theater ZASP. At the same time, he took part in the performances of the Theater Workshop directed by W. Mirecki. Since the founding of the Syrena Children and Youth Theater in 1959 (last name since 1963), he has been a regular collaborator of this theater and a favorite of children's audiences. In 1962, he played with the unpretentious comedy of Lykomedes ("Achilles and the Maids") in a play prepared at Ognisko Polskie by the theater group of the Students and Alumni Union in London under the direction of Krystyna Ankwicz. He was one of the seniors of Polish acting in exile.

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