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Topic: Actors (27 records)

Josef Abrhám

A popular film and theatre actor. One of the most in-demand film and television actors in the Czech Republic in the 1960s to 1980s.

Vlastimil Brodský

Famous Czech theatre, film, radio and television actor and voice actor, also known abroad. He became famous for portraying diffident, dreamy, and melancholic antiheroes, but also as a narrator of radio fairy tales.

Vlasta Burian

Theatre and film actor, comedian, mime, imitator, singer, writer, theatre director, entrepreneur and sportsman, known also abroad. One of the most famous and popular Czech actors of the First Czechoslovak Republic, called “the king of comedians”.

Petr Čepek

One of the most important and distinguished Czech theatre, film and radio actors.

Hugo Haas

Theatre and film actor, director, screenwriter and producer, who also made a career in Hollywood. One of the most popular Czech actors of the 1930s.

Tomáš Holý

A popular child actor in the 1970s, also famous abroad. The greatest child star of Czech cinematography and television.

Miroslav Horníček

Czech theatre and film actor and director, artist and writer. He was a part of the popular duo with Jan Werich in the ABC Theatre.

Rudolf Hrušínský

Theatre, film, television and radio actor, voice actor, reciter, director. One of the most popular and most important figures of Czech theatre and film.

Josef Kemr

Prominent theatre, film and radio actor. One of the most distinguished and popular Czech actors of the 20th century.

Pavel Kříž

Film and theatre actor, voice actor, moderator and psychotherapist. One of the most popular contemporary Czech actors.

Karel Lamač

Film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and singer. One of the pioneers of Czech film and the first Czech director who established himself abroad as well.

Herbert Lom

Successful Czech film, television and theatre actor, radio presenter and writer, who lived in Great Britain.

Jaroslav Marvan

Prominent Czech theatre, film and television actor. One of the most distinctive Czech actors of the 20th century.

Vladimír Menšík

Prominent film, television and radio actor, comedian, moderator and entertainer. One of the most popular Czech actors of the second half of the 20th century.

Jiří Menzel

One of the most famous and widely acclaimed Czech directors, a prominent theatre director, active also as a theatre and film actor. In 1960s he was one of the most distinctive faces of the New Wave.

Antonín Novotný (actor)

Czech film actor from the 1930s and 1940s, who played roles of lovers, and Czech-German chemist who worked with NASA on the development of the space shuttle.

Oldřich Nový

Prominent Czech theatre and film actor, theatre director, operetta and chanson singer. He is regarded as the pioneer of Czech musical acting and was one of the biggest film stars during the First Republic.

Boleslav Polívka

Theatre and film actor, director, screenwriter, dramatist, mime and clown. He is currently one of the most popular film and television actors in the Czech Republic, known abroad as well.

Karel Roden

Charismatic film, theatre and television actor, also active and well known abroad. One of the most distinctive contemporary Czech actors and one of a few Czech actors that have achieved success in Hollywood.

Ladislav Smoljak

Distinguished theatre and film director, screenwriter, dramatist, actor and teacher. One of the co-founders and prominent figures of the Jára Cimrman Theatre.

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