Lech Owron

[1] Born in Radom, Lech Owron graduated from the Edward Rontaler Gymnasium in Warsaw, he then studied mining engineering in Mons, Belgium.

During the outbreak of World War I, he was in Russia and returned to Poland in 1919 where he became the director of the newly formed Quid Pro Quo Theater in Warsaw.

[2] Owron began his career in film with the role of the villainous Baron Kamiłow in the Wiktor Biegański directed 1925 crime drama Vampires of Warsaw.

[5] Following the end of World War II, Owron returned to the stage sporadically with various theater engagements.

He made one final film in 1960, Krzyżacy (Knights of the Teutonic Order), directed by Aleksander Ford before permanently retiring from acting altogether.