Aleksander Bardini

Biography

Aleksander Bardini (17 November 1913 – 30 July 1995) was a Polish actor, theatre director, artistic director, and educator.Born in Łódź to a Jewish family, after finishing high school in 1932 he studied violin and performed in the string quartet of the Jewish Music Association as well as in a Jewish cabaret. In 1935 he graduated from the Acting Department of PIST in Warsaw.He worked as an actor at the Municipal Theatre in Wilno (Vilnius) (1935–1936) and at the Polish Theatre in Warsaw (1938). In 1939 he joined the COP Travelling Theatre. For the 1939/40 season he was engaged by the Municipal Theatres in Lwów (Lviv), where he remained until 1941, working as both actor and director.During the...