Hailing from Oleśnica in western Poland, Rogalski honed his craft at the National Film School in Łódź before embarking on a stage career that spanned several prominent regional theatres. Between 1970 and 1974 he performed at the Baltic Dramatic Theatre named after Julius Slovak in Koszalin, followed by a season at the Polish Theatre in Szczecin, and from 1976 onward he became a fixture of the Juli…