Stanisław Tym
Acting
Biography
Stanisław Aleksy Tym (July 17, 1937 – December 6, 2024) was a celebrated Polish actor, comedian, director, screenwriter, and satirist known for his significant contributions to Polish cinema and theatre. He was a writer for major publications, a theater director, and most famously, played the role of Ryszard Ochódzki in the cult 1981 film Teddy Bear.
Born: July 17, 1937
Place of Birth: Malkinia Górna, Mazowieckie, Poland
Known For
Opening Tomorrow
A budding playwright is thrilled to find out that his play will be performed at a prestigious theater, but a series of problems pile up, along with the general feeling that opening night will be disastrous.
Teddy Bear
En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages.
Man - Woman Wanted
Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison. Desperate, he decides to hide in disguise as a woman until he can paint a copy of the stolen canvas. Lacking means to live, he takes jobs as a maid for a variety of colorful characters.
What Will You Do When You Catch Me?
Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.
Hijacking Agatha
A parliament member's sixteen year old daughter Agatha falls in love and runs away with a convicted young tramp, while her father uses his friends in the government and police to brutally break their happiness.
The Cruise
A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship.
Niespotykanie spokojny człowiek
Christmas Eve is approaching. A son serving in the army mistakenly sends his parents a love letter intended for his fiancée. The father is not happy that his son is going to marry a girl from the city—he is afraid that the boy will want to stay in the city and leave the family farm. He decides to talk the young couple out of getting married, without knowing either the girl or their plans for the future...
A Jungle Book of Regulations
Janek and Wanda live in a small room in a villa, while other rooms are occupied by offices of various institutions. Janek often stays at work after hours, just to avoid returning to the cramped apartment too early. One day, a man named Malinowski, who once lived in the same small room, visits the couple. He proposes to exchange their room for a new, two-room apartment that he has just received. Janek and Wanda are initially distrustful, but eventually, the exchange takes place. It turns out that Wanda's ex-husband, Jerzy, already lives in the new apartment. Despite the divorce, as he is registered with Wanda, he has the right to continue living in her apartment. Janek tries to find a way to get rid of the intruder.
Nobody's Calling
Shortly after World War 2 a young man arrives on the Recovered Territories and starts a romance with a young woman, all the while evading the ghosts of his past.
Brunet Will Call
Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.
Filmography
as Pijak
as pastor Bishop
as Ryszard Ochódzki
as Prezes (The President)
as On sam
as bezdomny
as Ryszard Ochódzki
as Secret Agent
as Ryszard Ochodzki / Stanislaw Toe
as Dudała / Szymek
as Lucek (voice) (uncredited)
as Jacobus
as captain Tadeusz Zwoźniak
as Zenek
as Official Sealing Adamec's Painting (uncredited)
as KO Instructor
as Committee Member
as American Soldier (uncredited)
as Waiter - Announcer
as Designer Office Employee
as Osetnik, Bączek's Friend
as Actor (uncredited)
as Soldier (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Insurgent in a Queue (uncredited)