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- Birth nameMieczyslaw Fogiel
- Mieczyslaw Fogg was born on May 30, 1901 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for The Coldest Game (2019), Television Theater (1953) and Szczescie swiata (2016). He died on September 3, 1990 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- A member of Chór Dana, Fogg joined the Armia Krajowa (Home Army) - Polish Undeground. He gave concerts wherever he could to raise morale of soldiers and civilians during Warsaw Uprising and managed to help and save his Jewish friends.
- Fogg had a lyric baritone voice and can be compared to French Tino Rossi in style.
- Fogg was also one of the Polish Righteous among the Nations. He hid a Jewish family of Ivo Wesby in his apartment until the end of World War II.
- In 1922, he started working as a railway worker. About that time, he also joined the choir of the St. Anne's Church. There his friend, Ludwik Sempolinski, made him join the classes of music organized by Jan Tysakowski, Eugeniusz Mossakowski, Waclaw Brzezinski, Ignacy Dygas and many other notable Polish musicians of the epoch. Initially a hobbyist, in 1928 he met Wladyslaw Danitowski Dan, who chose him as a soloist for his newly formed Dan's Choir. The choir became extremely popular the following year when Jerzy Petersburski's song Tango Milonga became an international hit. This and other tangos and romances performed by the choir in the famous Qui pro Quo theatre led Fogiel to become one of the most popular Polish singers.
- He continued to give concerts almost until his death in 1990. Throughout his 60-year long career, he gave more than 16,000 of them in all countries of Europe, Brasil, Israel, Ceylon, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the US.
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