Born into a family with a tragic aviation background-his father, a LOT pilot, died in a crash the year he was born-he grew up beside a Warsaw film studio, which enabled a first on-screen appearance as a twelve-year-old extra. After completing a technical school for mechanical and electrical engineering in 1970, a chance casting by Janusz Kondratiuk in the 1972 film Dziewczyny do wzięcia prompted h…
