Tomasz Borkowy

Tomasz Borkowy

Birthday: 1952-09-17

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland

Biography: Tomasz Borkowy is a Polish actor, often credited as Tomek Bork. He graduated from Theatre college in Kraków in 1977 and first came to the UK the following year, unable to speak English. He moved to the UK full time in 1980 and appeared in a number of film and television productions. He has also continued to work in Poland, where he is most well known for playing the lead role in the TV drama series, Dom (House) which ran for 7 series over 20 years (1980–2000). Borkowy has also starred in and produced a number of plays at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the past 18 years. Borkowy now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland and southern Spain. He runs Universal Arts – an international agency and production company for performing arts, while still working as an actor.

Movies

The Beard
The Beard

Unconventional pedagogical methods of a new teacher raise concerns of the provincial school's princi...

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Tylko Beatrycze
Tylko Beatrycze

Raised by the monks, Stanisław gets involved in a scheme to murder the king....

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A Bear Named Wojtek
A Bear Named Wojtek

Displaced by the Second World War, a troop of Polish soldiers form an inseparable bond through an or...

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, an...

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How Deep Is the Ocean?
How Deep Is the Ocean?

Marek wakes up in the belly of a whale, where he meets his deceased loved ones....

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Murder on the Moon
Murder on the Moon

After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. Whe...

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Seans
Seans

At the Cultural Center, a young scientist gives a lecture that evokes spontaneous reactions from the...

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Sleepers
Sleepers

Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under dee...

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A Question of Identity
A Question of Identity

Erwin van Haarlem is a man of mystery. Living in London in 1986 and ostensibly a Dutch art dealer, h...

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Journey's End
Journey's End

A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R...

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Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric

The Doctor and Ace arrive at a secret military base during World War II, where an ancient evil from ...

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You Will Not Have Peace
You Will Not Have Peace

After leaving prison, Tolek plans to get revenge on his former girlfriend....

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Border
Border

Czechoslovakia, 1952. For some, life under the post-war Stalinist regime is hardly worth living and ...

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