Kosiński was friends with Roman Polanski, with whom he attended the National Film School in Łódź, and said he narrowly missed being at Polanski and Sharon Tate's house on the night Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's followers in 1969, due to lost luggage.

Journalist John Taylor of New York Magazine believes Polanski was mistaken.

A film adaptation in 1971 titled The Tragedy of Macbeth was directed by Roman Polanski and executive-produced by Hugh Hefner.

** Followers of Charles Manson murder Sharon Tate, ( who was eight months pregnant ), and her friends: Folgers coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Hollywood hairstylist Jay Sebring at the home of Tate and her husband, Roman Polanski, in Los Angeles, California.

Married to film director Roman Polanski in 1968, Sharon was eight-and-a-half months pregnant when she was murdered in her home, along with four others, by followers of Charles Manson.

A perfectionist, Polanski had little patience with the inexperienced Tate, and said in an interview that one scene had required seventy takes before he was satisfied.

Although friends later said he was devastated, he befriended Polanski and remained Tate's closest confidante.

Polanski later commented that Sebring was a lonely and isolated person, who viewed Tate and himself as his family.

Polanski returned to the United States, and was contracted by the head of Paramount Pictures, Robert Evans, to direct and write the screenplay for Rosemary's Baby, which was based on Ira Levin's novel of the same name.

One of the all-time bestsellers, the film version was highly publicized and anticipated, and while Tate acknowledged that such a prominent role should further her career, she confided to Polanski that she did not like either the book or the script.

During the shooting of Valley of the Dolls, Tate confided to Parkins that she was " madly in love " with Polanski.

An edited version of The Fearless Vampire Killers was released, and Polanski expressed disgust at Ransohoff for " butchering " his film.

Polanski was dressed in what the press described as " Edwardian finery ," while Tate was attired in a white minidress.

The Polanski house was often full of strangers, and Tate regarded the casual atmosphere as part of the " free spirit " of the times, saying that she did not mind who came into her home as her motto was " live and let live ".

Tate and Polanski had visited it several times, and Tate was thrilled to learn it was available, referring to it as her " love house ".

Sharon Tate with Roman Polanski in The Fearless Vampire Killers

A March 1967 article about Tate in Playboy magazine began, " This is the year that Sharon Tate happens ..." and included six nude or partially nude photographs taken by Roman Polanski during filming of The Fearless Vampire Killers.

The show was adapted from Roman Polanski's 1967 movie The Fearless Vampire Killers, and initially directed by Polanski himself.

Tate went to London in early 1966 to work on The Fearless Vampire Killers with film director Roman Polanski.

Dance of the Vampires ( or Tanz der Vampire as the original German language version is named ) is a musical remake of a 1967 Roman Polanski film of the same name ( called The Fearless Vampire Killers in the USA ).

Perhaps best known for his work in film scores, Komeda wrote the scores for Roman Polanski ’ s films Rosemary ’ s Baby, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Knife in the Water and Cul-de-sac.

The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck ( shortened to The Fearless Vampire Killers ; originally titled Dance of the Vampires ) is a 1967 comedy horror film directed by Roman Polanski, written by Gérard Brach and Polanski, produced by Gene Gutowski and co-starring Polanski with future wife Sharon Tate.

In his autobiography, Roman Polanski discusses some of the difficulties in filming The Fearless Vampire Killers: " Our first month's outdoor filming became a series of ingenious improvisations, mainly because the last-minute switch from one location ( Austria ) to another ( Urtijëi, an Italian ski resort in the Dolomites ) had left us so little time to revise our shooting schedules.

screenshot from The Fearless Vampire Killers ( 1967 ) showing Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski

In 1966 Roman Polanski cast him as the gangster Albie in Cul-de-sac, before creating Professor Abronsius in The Fearless Vampire Killers ( 1967 ) especially for him.

The Fearless Vampire Killers ( 1967 ) by Roman Polanski was a notable parody of the genre.

* The Fearless Vampire Killers ( 1967 )-a semi-spoof of the genre directed by Roman Polanski.

The Fearless Vampire Killers ( 1967 ) by Academy Award winner Roman Polanski was a notable parody of the genre.

In the Polanski film, Deneuve first portrayed the character archetype for which she would be nicknamed the " ice maiden.

Leaving college and working as a theatrical tailor, Kieślowski applied to the Łódź Film School, the famed Polish film school which also has Roman Polanski and Andrzej Wajda among its alumni.

Director Roman Polanski turned the book into the movie The Ghost Writer, in which the character is played by Pierce Brosnan

Toward those ends, the paper supported efforts to expand the city's water supply by acquiring the watershed of the Owens Valley, an effort fictionalized in the Roman Polanski movie Chinatown, which is also covered in California Water Wars.

During the trial, which included the testimonies of Mia Farrow and others, it was proved that the alleged scene at the famous New York restaurant Elaine's could not possibly have taken place on the date given, because Polanski only dined at this restaurant three weeks later.

Szpilman is widely known as the protagonist of the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which is based on his memoir of the same name recounting his survival of the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust.

* Kensington Mansions, on the north side of Trebovir Road, was the mysterious mansion block in Roman Polanski ’ s movie Repulsion ( 1965 ), in which the sexually repressed Carole Ledoux ( played by Catherine Deneuve ) has a murderous breakdown.

Roman Polanski directed two films which are considered quintessential psychological horror: Repulsion ( 1965 ) and Rosemary's Baby.

In 1982 she eventually emigrated to the U. S. where she has specialized in playing European temptresses since her feature debut opposite William Hurt in Gorky Park ( 1983 ), for which she was recommended by Roman Polanski.

In film, Blackmer is remembered for his more than a dozen portrayals of U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt, and for his role in the Academy Award-winning 1968 Roman Polanski film about urban New York witches, Rosemary's Baby, in which he played an over-solicitous neighbor.

In September 2009, Weinstein publicly voiced opposition to efforts to extradite Roman Polanski from Switzerland to the U. S. regarding 1977 charges of unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old, to which Polanski had pled guilty before fleeing the country.

Polanski later returned to the castle to shoot a few scenes for his The Tragedy of Macbeth ( 1971 ), in which it stands in for Glamis Castle.

Chapa co-wrote and directed Polanski Unauthorized, a biopic of Roman Polanski, in which he played the title role.