Ljubiša Samardžić

Ljubiša Samardžić
Samardžić at the Battle of Neretva premiere in Sarajevo in November 1969.
Born	(1936-11-19) 19 November 1936 Skopje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Spouse(s)	Mirjana Samardžić (1960-present)

Ljubiša Samardžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Љубиша Самарџић, born 19 November 1936) is a Serbian actor and director, who is best known as Šurda in the Vruć vetar TV series.

Early life

Born to the family of a coal miner, his acting talent was discovered very early and he won a scholarship with respected director Bojan Stupica. Samardžić was educated at the Belgrade Drama Arts Academy. After graduation, he obtained a role in Igre na skelama (1961).

Samardžić was a member of the Central Committee of Yugoslav Communist Party in late 1980s.

Career

In the 1960s, he established himself as one of the most recognisable and popular stars of former Yugoslav cinema.^[1]

In the 1990s, he and his son Dragan Samardžić founded a film production company. Despite break-up of Yugoslavia and UN sanctions against Serbia, the company made many popular and commercial successful films.

In August 1995, he received Life Achievement Award "Pavle Vujisić" for his roles in Yugoslav cinematography.

He has been married to Mirjana Samardžić since 1960. Nicknamed Smoki,^[2] he has been credited as Ljubisa Samardjic, Luba Samardy, Ljubisa Samardzic-Smoki, and Smoki Samardì.

Selected filmography

The Climber (1966)
Battle of Neretva (1969)
In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain (1971)
Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972)
The Tiger (1978)
Premeditated Murder (1995)
Yu (2003)

References

↑ "Belgrade: 38th FEST officially opened". February 20, 2010.
↑ ""Ljubisa Samardzic," playing in Belgrade and Novi Sad" (in Serbian). Blic.rs.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ljubiša Samardžić.

Ljubiša Samardžić at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Ljubiša Samardžić

Sky Hook (1999) Goose Feather (2004)

Golden Arena for Best Actor at the Pula Film Festival

As Yugoslav Film Awards (1955–90)	Stane Sever (1955) Bert Sotlar & Ljubomir Tadić (1956) Mladen Šerment (1957) Pavle Vuisić (1958) Petre Prličko (1959) Antun Vrdoljak (1960) Miha Baloh (1961) Mija Aleksić (1962) Slobodan Perović (1963) Ljubomir Tadić (1964) Bata Živojinović (1965) Antun Nalis & Relja Bašić (1966) Bata Živojinović (1967) Ljubomir Tadić (1968) Boris Dvornik (1969) Stevo Žigon (1970) Darko Damevski (1971) Bata Živojinović (1972) Ljubiša Samardžić (1973) Dragomir Bojanić (1974) Ljubomir Tadić (1975) Radko Polič (1976) Pavle Vuisić (1977) Rade Šerbedžija (1978) Boris Dvornik (1979) Ljubiša Samardžić (1980) Dragan Nikolić (1981) Ljubiša Samardžić (1982) Miki Manojlović (1983) Danilo Stojković (1984) Miki Manojlović (1985) Rade Šerbedžija (1986) Žarko Laušević (1987) Mustafa Nadarević (1988) Janez Hočevar (1989) Branislav Lečić (1990)

As Croatian Film Awards (1992–present)	Sven Lasta (1992) Ilija Ivezić (1993) Filip Šovagović (1995) Rene Medvešek (1996) Sven Medvešek (1997) Filip Šovagović (1998) Ivo Gregurević (1999) Ilija Ivezić (2000) Filip Šovagović (2001) Ivo Gregurević (2002) Zlatko Crnković (2003) Goran Višnjić (2004) Ivo Gregurević (2005) Krešimir Mikić (2006) Emir Hadžihafizbegović (2007) Alen Liverić (2008) Rene Bitorajac (2009) Rade Šerbedžija (2010) Draško Zidar (2011) Rene Bitorajac (2012) Bogdan Diklić (2013) Ivo Gregurević (2014) Emir Hadžihafizbegović (2015)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 95032754 LCCN: no2005024928 ISNI: 0000 0001 1477 9375 GND: 11955481X

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