
Personal Info
Known For
Sound
Gender
Male
Birthday
December 5, 1911(88)
Day of Death
July 6, 2000
Place of Birth
Sosnowiec, Poland
Also Known As
Wladyslaw Szpilman
Władysław Szpilman
Sound
Biography
Władysław Szpilman was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on Szpilman's autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust.
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