- Zygmunt Turkow was born on November 6, 1896 in Warsaw, Warsaw Governorate, Congress Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor and director, known for The Vow (1937), Tkies khaf (1924) and Jolly Paupers (1937). He was married to Ida Kaminska and Diana Blumenfeld. He died on January 20, 1970 in Israel.
- SpousesIda Kaminska(1918 - 1932) (divorced, 1 child)Diana Blumenfeld (divorced)
- Children
- RelativesIzak Grudberg(Sibling)
- Brother of the actor Jonas Turkow, actor and writer 'Icchak Turkow' and the journalist Marek Turkow; husband of the actresses Ida Kaminska and Diana Blumenfeld; father of the actress Ruth Turkow (with Ida Kaminska).
- In the years 1929-1938 he collaborated with various troupes. He performed, among others, in Poland, Romania and Latvia.
- In 1938, in Lviv, he reactivated the Warsaw Jewish Artistic Theater with a new line-up, with which he gave performances in numerous Polish cities. The theater staged its last performance on September 5, 1939 (when a bomb hit the theater) in the Nowosci building in Warsaw.
- He performed in the Warsaw Jewish theater of Abraham Izaak Kaminski (1867-1918).
- He was the founder of several notable theatres, including the Central Theatre in 1921, co-founder of the Brazilian National Theatre in 1940 and the traveling Zuta Theatre in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1956, where he served as manager and director until its dissolution in 1967.
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