Richard Koszarski
Museum curator, editor
Born Dec. 18, 1947, New York (NY), U.S.; son of Casimir and Janina (Orzechowska); married Diane (Kaiser); child: Eva.
Education: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Hofstra University, Hempstead (NY), 1969; Master of Arts (M.A.), 1974, Ph.D., 1977, New York University, New York City.
Career: in New York City - free-lance film critic, author, lecturer, 1971 -, instructor, School of Visual Arts, 1974-86, adjunct assistant prof., Columbia University, 1980, 1982-86, editor, Film History, An International Journal, 1986 -; senior curator, collections and exhibitions head, American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria (NY), 1978 -.
Author, i.a.: screenplays for documentary films: Roger Corman, Hollywoody Wild Angel, 1978, and The Man You Loved to Hate, 1979; editor, The Man You Loved to Hate: Erich von Stroheim and Hollywood, 1983, and An Evening's Entertainment, the Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928, 1990; numerous exhibitions, catalogues and articles in professional journals.
Member of: Society of Cinema Studies; Antique Wireless Association; Association of Moving Image Archivists; Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.); Kosciuszko Foundation.
Honors: research associateships, American Film Institute, 1971, 1972; research grant, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 1978; National Film Book Award, National Film Society, 1984; Prix J. Mitry, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone (Italy), 1991; listed in Who's Who in America.
Hobby: collecting Polish posters.
Office: American Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996