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Jerzy Kosinski

Jerzy Kosinski

Actor, Writer

Born June 14, 1933 in Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]

Died May 3, 1991

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Biography

Jerzy Nikodem Kosiński , born Józef Lewinkopf, was a Polish-American novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English. For several decades, Kosinski was famous as a wit, a great raconteur, and a media celebrity. His first three novels were big hits. However, in June 22, 1982, "Jerzy Kosinski's Tainted Words," an article by Geoffrey Stokes and Eliot Fremont-Smith in The Village Voice, accused Jerzy Kosinski of plagiarism and dishonesty. 'The Painted Bird' was widely considered to be autobiographical; the Voice showed that this shocking tale about a brutalized childhood during the Jewish Holocaust was not after all about Jerzy, who actually lived rather comfortably during the war years. 'Being There', which was adapted as a successful film, was shown to have been plagiarized from an earlier Polish novel. Jerzy Kosinski appeared in two feature films a few documentaries and a large number of talk shows.

His parents, Moses (Mojzesz) and Elzbieta (Liniecka) Lewinkopf, were well off, resourceful and cultured—though Elzbieta was an amateur musician, not a concert pianist as her son maintained, and Moses was a manager skilled in languages but not a professor of linguistics. The Lewinkopfs, secularized Jews, recognized the Nazi threat to their native Poland, and in late 1939 they acquired papers changing their last name to Kosinski and the father's first name to Mieczyslaw. Kosinski was their only biological child.

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Filmography

Actor

14

Type

Year

The Painted Boy Poster

The Painted Boy Documentary1995

A Fool and His Money Poster

A Fool and His Money Feature Film1989Beggar

The Dick Cavett Show Poster

The Dick Cavett Show TV Series1989Self - Guest

Lodz Ghetto Poster

Lodz Ghetto Documentary1988Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski

The Statue of Liberty Poster

The Statue of Liberty Documentary1985Self - Writer

Late Night with David Letterman Poster

Late Night with David Letterman TV Series1982Self

The 54th Annual Academy Awards Poster

The 54th Annual Academy Awards TV Special1982Self - Presenter

Reds Feature Film1981Grigory Zinoviev

Television: The Ultimate Drug Poster

Television: The Ultimate Drug Documentary1981Self

Did You See..? Poster

Did You See..? TV Series1980Self - Contributor

The David Frost Show Poster

The David Frost Show TV Series1969Self

Kee and Levin TV Series1966Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Poster

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV Series1962Self

The Mike Douglas Show Poster

The Mike Douglas Show TV Series1961Self - Author

Writer

3

Type

Year

The Painted Bird Poster

The Painted Bird Feature Film2019

The Painted Boy Poster

The Painted Boy Documentary1995

Being There Poster

Being There Feature Film1979

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