Nickname:	Roman Polañski / Romek
Known for:	The Ninth Gate, Chinatown, The Pianist
Birth name:	Roman Liebling
Birthday:	18 August 1933, Paris, France
Height:	5' 5" (1.65 m)

AP - A judge has refused to dismiss a 31-year-old sex case against Roman Polanski because he's a fugitive but signaled that he would reconsider if the film director returns to the United States and appears in court.
ROMAN POLANSKI’s bid to have his 32-year-old child sex case dismissed can not go ahead unless he makes an appearance in court, according to the Los Angeles judge overseeing the case.The filmmaker is seeking for his 1977 sex assault case to be dropped after documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted & Desired offered new information about the
AFP - A Los Angeles court dismissed a bid by fugitive director Roman Polanski to quash a decades-old rape conviction, but said the case may be heard if he returned to the United States.
Reuters - Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski lost a bid on Tuesday to dismiss his 30-year-old conviction for having sex with a minor when a Los Angeles judge refused to consider the request as long as the filmmaker was still a fugitive.
AP - A film has returned director Roman Polanski to the spotlight, though it's not one of his own making.
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So you're a rich, famous director who had this little problem with an underage girl back in the 70's and you need to do a movie in two countries that will put you behind bars. What to do?If you're Roman Polanski, you bring Boston and London to...

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Reuters - A California appeals court on Monday rejected a bid by fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski to disqualify the entire Los Angeles County court system from hearing his motion for dismissal of a 30-year-old conviction for having sex with a minor.
AFP - Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski faced a setback in a California court for his bid to have 30-year-old rape charges against him dismissed, according to a judicial source.
AP - A prosecutor on Friday urged an appellate court to reject a motion by fugitive director Roman Polanski's lawyer to disqualify the entire Los Angeles Superior Court bench from the rape case.
AP - A prosecutor on Friday urged an appellate court to reject a motion by fugitive director Roman Polanski's lawyer to disqualify the entire Los Angeles Superior Court bench from the notorious rape case.
Fugitive filmmaker ROMAN POLANSKI has found a cunning way to shoot his new movie in the U.S. and U.K. without landing in jail - he is building giant replicas in a German film studio.The Polish-born director has lived in Paris, France for the past 32 years since fleeing America, after he was convicted, in 1977,
AP - A California appeals court halted a Los Angeles court hearing on fugitive director Roman Polanski's bid to have his 1977 rape case dismissed.
A Los Angeles court has postponed a bid by ROMAN POLANSKI to have rape charges against him dismissed - at the request of the Oscar winning director.The veteran moviemaker is accused of having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. He pleaded guilty to the charge before fleeing America and has lived the last
AFP - A California court on Wednesday postponed a bid by Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski to have rape charges against him dismissed, but there was no indication of when a new hearing would be held.
Reuters - A California appeals court on Tuesday put on hold a hearing sought by Roman Polanski, at the request of the fugitive filmmaker, as he tries to dismiss his 30-year-old conviction for having sex with a minor.
AP - Roman Polanski's tumultuous, sometimes tragic life had long seemed destined for a movie of its own.
AP - Roman Polanski has no plans ever to return to the United States, according to a legal filing Tuesday in his campaign to win dismissal of a long-ago criminal case in which he pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
The woman who was allegedly raped by director ROMAN POLANSKI three decades ago has urged Los Angeles lawmakers to throw the case out of court - insisting the trial will drag up lurid details of the assault.Samantha Geimer, who the filmmaker is accused of having unlawful sex with when she was just 13, filed a
AP - The woman who was raped by fugitive director Roman Polanski three decades ago when she was 13 lashed out at the Los Angeles County district attorney's office on Monday, saying she is being victimized again by prosecutors' focus on lurid details of what happened to her.
A Los Angeles judge has denied Roman Polanski's request for the officials overseeing his 32-year-old sex case to be dismissed on the grounds of bias. Lawyers for the veteran movie maker filed a motion

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