Polish actor screenwriter and director cocreator together with Janusz Weiss and Jacek Kleyff of the cabaret group Salon Niezale?nych He received a diploma at the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology in 1974 and in 1979 he graduated from the Directing Department of the Polish National Film School in ?ód? In the 1970s he cofounded the Independent Salon cabaret Then he mainly took up film activities He is known mainly for roles in such films as Man of Marble and Wodzirej