---
name: "Tadeusz Kunikowski"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tadeusz-kunikowski"
fi1m_id: "tadeusz-kunikowski"
imdb_id: "nm0475160"
tmdb_id: 10261
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "9 June 1919"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:41:57.409854+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Tadeusz Kunikowski

## Identity

Tadeusz Kunikowski

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tadeusz-kunikowski
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tadeusz-kunikowski
- **IMDb ID:** nm0475160
- **TMDB ID:** 10261
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0475160/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10261

Actor. Born 9 June 1919 in Ruduszek.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 9 June 1919, Ruduszek
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0475160/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10261

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Tin Drum*](https://film.one/film/the-tin-drum.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Tadeusz Kunikowski is a Polish actor and property master. He began working at the Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych studio in Łódź in 1945, initially as a messenger before becoming a rekwizytor.

He is known for his role as Uncle Vinzenz in *The Tin Drum* (1979). His other acting credits include *Ocalić miasto* (1976), *Kazimierz Wielki* (1976), an episode of the television series *Ile jest życia* (1974), and *Kopernik* (1973). He also worked in the property department on numerous Polish films from the 1940s to the 1980s. He received the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland in 1955 and the Golden Cross of Merit in 1974.

*Sources: imdb.com, filmpolski.pl.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Tin Drum* (1979), Fi1m 78, as Uncle Vinzenz — [page](https://film.one/film/the-tin-drum.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Tin Drum* (1979), as Uncle Vinzenz — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-tin-drum.md)
- *Kazimierz Wielki* (1976), Actor
- *Copernicus* (1973), as (uncredited)
- *Król Maciuś I* (1958), as Props
- *Uczta Baltazara* (1954), as Props
- *Soldier of Victory* (1953), as Props
- *Young Chopin* (1952), as Props
- *Forbidden Songs* (1947), as Props

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