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Vladek Sheybal (born Władysław Rudolf Z. Sheybal; 12 March 192316 October 1992) was a Polish character actor and director of both television and stage productions. He was well known for his portrayal of the chess grandmaster Kronsteen in the ''James Bond'' film ''From Russia with Love'' (1963), a role for which he had been personally recommended by his friend Sean Connery, and Otto Leipzig in '' Smiley's People'' (1982). He became a naturalised British citizen, but remained "fiercely proud of his homeland and its culture."〔 ==Life and career== Sheybal was born in Zgierz, near Łódź, in the Second Polish Republic. He appeared in the film ''Kanał'' (1957, credited as Władysław Sheybal), directed by Andrzej Wajda, before emigrating to the United Kingdom, where he was typically cast in villainous roles. He also appeared as Holocaust survivor Egon Sobotnik in the television mini-series ''QB VII''. He had a dual role as "the Director" and as Pierre Louys in Ken Russell's ''The Debussy Film'', one of Russell's composer biopics for the BBC. Other Russell films in which he appeared were ''Billion Dollar Brain'', ''Women in Love'', and ''The Boy Friend''. Other films include ''Casino Royale'', ''Doppelgänger'', ''The Last Valley'', ''Puppet on a Chain'', ''Innocent Bystanders'', ''The Wind and the Lion'', ''The Lady Vanishes'', ''Fire and Sword'' and ''Red Dawn''. Sheybal's other TV credits include ''Z-Cars'', ''Danger Man'', ''The Troubleshooters'', ''The Saint'', ''The Baron'', ''The Champions'', ''Callan'', ''Strange Report'', ''UFO'' (in which he had a recurring role as Dr Jackson), ''The New Avengers'', ''QB VII'', ''Supernatural'', ''Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy'', and ''Smiley's People''. In 1977, Sheybal won the Dracula Society's prestigious Hamilton Deane Award for his performance in the BBC play ''Night of the Marionettes'', in which he played a sinister Austrian innkeeper whose life-size puppets supposedly inspired Mary Shelley's ''Frankenstein''. Sheybal's final stage appearance was as Friedrich Nietzsche in the Pierre Bourgeade play ''The Eagle and the Serpent'' at London's Offstage Downstairs Theatre in 1988. He died in London in 1992, aged 69, from a ruptured aortic aneurysm. He is buried in Putney Vale Cemetery.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Vladek Sheybal )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vladek Sheybal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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