FrameThrower · Actors · Leon Niemczyk
Leon Niemczyk
3 films · 403 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1962–1986
Born 15 December 1923 · Warsaw, Poland · died 29 November 2006
Leon Stanisław Niemczyk was a Polish actor.
Niemczyk appeared in over 500 films and television shows over the course of his very long career. His most memorable roles were Fulko de Lorche in Aleksander Ford's The Teutonic Knights and Andrzej in Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 403 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1962–1986
- Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta1999
- Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta1985
- Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Honorary Badge of the City of Łódź
- National Prize of East Germany
How their films are shot
Measured across 403 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Leon takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 83% of their frames are night, 78% low key — the look of the work Leon takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 403 frames from Leon Niemczyk's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.