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Eugeniusz Bodo ( born Bohdan Eugène Junod ; 18991943 ) was a film director, producer and one of the most popular Polish actors and comedians of the inter-war period.

He starred in some of the most popular Polish film productions of the 1930s, including His Excellency, The Shop Assistant, Czy Lucyna to dziewczyna?

and Pieśniarz Warszawy.

A skilled singer, he became one of the icons of Polish musical comedies of the time and a symbol of Polish commercial cinema.

Towards the end of that decade he also became a successful entrepreneur, a co-owner of a successful film studio, a café and a producers company.

Arrested by the Soviets in the aftermath of the German and Soviet invasion of Poland, he perished in the Gulag.