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Jerzy Toeplitz AO was born in 1909 in Kharkiv. He was educated in Warsaw. After World War II he was the co-founder of the Polish Film School, and later took up an appointment in Australia for the Film and TV School.
Between 1948 and 1972 he was Vice-President of the International Film and Television Council. In 1959, he was a member of the jury at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. Two years later, he was a member of the jury at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival.
He was also an author and published a number of books which have been translated into many languages. Toeplitz also, for almost 30 years, was the president of the International Federation of Films Archives, where he accomplished a very important role, overall in the Cold War conjuncture, especially into a very big crisis of the FIAF's history, when Henri Langlois left the FIAF. Toeplitz's job was a very important differential because he was a cinema's teacher and a leader of an educational project in the Polish city of Åódź. This school had a decisive impact on the modern cinema in Poland.
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