Władysław Godik
Polish actor and singer (1892-1952)
Władysław Godik (1 April 1892 – 18 December 1952) was a Polish Jewish singer, actor and director in Polish, Russian, and Yiddish theatre.
Biography
Born in Zlatopil, he moved with his family to Warsaw, where he did two semesters in the veterinarian institute in 1911. Due to political reasons, however, he had to leave for Russia in the same year, where he began to earn money by performing in the circus in Kharkov. Then he played in an operetta in Kiev.
He acted in the dramatic section of Hazemir and in 1911 he began acting professionally at Gershanovitsh in Vitebsk, playing Baynushl in Pintele Yid. During the First World War he took part in Krutshinin's Russian operettas and later some German operettas. In 1909 he appeared in Radom in Tsharnetski's Polish Operetta troupe, and played in Shulamis, then founded a Polish-language revue theater called Mirage. Half a year later he joined Zygmunt Turkow and Ester Rachel Kamińska's traveling troupe. He played for four years at the Central Theater and spent one year in Vilna with Morevski.
In 1915–18, he performed in the revue theater in Vienna, gaining fame as a compere.
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