Václav Mares was born on September 1, 1940 in Strázkovice, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for
Poéma o svedomí I-II (1979),
Gottwald (1986) and
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981). He was married to Alena Smolová. He died on May 30, 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic.