He was a star in Bareja’s films. He became an actor “because it turned out that way”. To hide his addiction, he splashed himself with cologne

In his youth, he wanted to become an artist. He also showed musical talent – he sang in the choir, played the violin. It was known that his future would be connected with the artistic profession. – I was lucky that I didn’t have to make any decisions, because it just happened that I became an actor. Actually, I rather dreamed of doing art – he revealed in 1998 on air. He made his operatic debut in 1945 in the role of a mute servant. Previously, Bronisław Pawlik worked as a railway worker. For years, he performed on the boards of the Wybrzeże Theater in Gdańsk, Teatr im. Jaracz in Łódź, the National Theater and the Polish Theater in Warsaw.

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Bronisław Pawlik became famous not only for his roles in Stanisław Bareja. “I’m interested in small, lost people”

Bronisław Pawlik had many unforgettable and iconic roles in his career. – I am primarily interested in small people, lost in the mechanism of the modern world, unnecessary. Eternally embarrassed by everything that surrounds them, almost by the very fact of their existence, shy, superfluous people, they are what touches me the most – in the 1980s in the “Ekran” magazine. He played such roles not only in Stanisław Bareja (including the series “Alternatywy 4” or the film “What will you do if you catch me”). In 1977, he appeared in the series “Lalka” as Ignacy Rzecki. Pawlik also played for Roman Załuski and Stanisław Jędryka.

He told me where to kiss the “window bear”. “I am amazed by this anecdote”

In the 1950s he performed together with Kabaret Starniczych Panów. In 1957, he appeared in the soirée “Bear from the window”, which was very popular. At the end of the 1960s, he was replaced by Stanisław Wyszyński, and an urban legend was created around “Miś from the Window” and Pawlik’s departure. According to her, the actor said on the air “And now, dear children, kiss the bear f***, I’m going for vodka.” He was about to lose his job because of those words. The problem is that the said sentence has never been uttered, although many people swear that they remember it well. He explained the matter in the 1990s. – I am amazed by the anecdote that goes around Poland, that I said something and that’s why they kicked me out of television. This is not true. It was created about six years after I finished this program – he emphasized on the air of Polish Radio.

He struggled with alcoholism for years. He died in 2002

As he admitted, he left the program because he did not want the label of “man from the children’s program” to stick to him for years. However, there was a grain of truth in the anecdote, whose authorship is attributed to Czesław Nowicki, or “Wicherek”, the legendary weather presenter. Pawlik struggled with alcoholism for years. Friends that he “poured hectoliters of cologne on himself” to kill the smell of vodka. He did not give up the addiction, even when he suffered a stroke in 1998. He died four years later, on May 6, 2002. A few months earlier he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer. In November of the same year, the film “All Saints” was released in cinemas, in which Bronisław Pawlik played his last role.