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- Tomás Holý was born on 17 March 1968 in Czechoslovakia. He was an actor, known for The Secret of Steel City (1979), Setkání v cervenci (1978) and Long Live Ghosts! (1977). He died on 8 March 1990 in Kytlice, Czechoslovakia [now Kytlice, Czech Republic].
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Vladimír Mensík was born on 9 October 1929 in Ivancice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor and writer, known for Nahá pastýrka (1966), Slamený klobouk (1972) and The Cremator (1969). He was married to Olga and Vera. He died on 29 May 1988 in Brno, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Dana Medrická was born on 11 July 1920 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Alexander Dumas starsi (1970), Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966) and The Turn of the Screw (1982). She was married to Artemio Precioso Ugarte and Václav Vydra. She died on 21 January 1983 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Writer
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- Actor
Oldrich Lipský was born on 4 July 1924 in Pelhrimov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer and director, known for The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981), Lemonade Joe (1964) and I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970). He died on 19 October 1986 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Writer
- Director
- Art Director
A graduate of Prague's School of Arts and Crafts, in 1936 he created a puppet theater, which was disbanded after the outbreak of WWII. During the war he designed stage sets and illustrated children's books. In 1945 he set up an animation unit with several collaborators at the Prague film studio; they called the unit "Trick Brothers." Trnka specialized in puppet animation, a traditional Czech art form, of which he became the undisputed master. He also created animated cartoons, but it was his puppet animation that made him an internationally recognized artist and the winner of film festival awards at Venice and elsewhere. He wrote the scripts for most of his own films.- Actor
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Jan Werich was born on 26 February 1905 in Prague, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor and writer, known for The Emperor and the Golem (1952), Král a zena (1967) and Workers, Let's Go (1934). He died on 31 October 1980 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.- Actor
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Rudolf Deyl was born on 6 July 1912 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Hrátky s certem (1957), Lemonade Joe (1964) and Akce B (1952). He died on 21 November 1967 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Actress
Zorka Janu was born on 9 July 1921 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Cekanky (1940), Ohnivé léto (1939) and Minulost Jany Kosinové (1940). She died on 24 March 1946 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Additional Crew
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Bohumil Smída was born on 16 January 1914 in Prague, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor and production manager, known for Nahá pastýrka (1966), Daisies (1966) and Krakatit (1948). He died on 6 March 1989 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.- Writer
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Jaroslav Dietl was born on 22 May 1929 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]. He was a writer, known for Bylo ctvrt a bude pul (1968), Druhý tah pescem (1985) and Muz na radnici (1976). He was married to Magdalena Dietlová. He died on 29 June 1985 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Ivan Jandl was born in 1937 to the family of accountant Klement Jandl and his wife, Bozena. When he was three, he suffered from polio, and it seemed that he would not be able to walk again, but a Dr. Pribramsky managed to do what seemed a miracle: Ivan was soon practically perfectly well. While at school, he played in the school theater and later joined the famed Disman Children's radio choir. From the choir, it was just a step to various roles in radio plays. His first film appearance was a very small role in Martin Fric's "Varúj!" but he remained with radio, which was where Fred Zinnemann chose him in an audition for The Search. After the film's success, Ivan got lots of fan mail from all over the world, and in 1949 he received a telegram, an approximate translation of which reads: "You won the Academy Award for outstanding child actor. Congratulations. F. Zinnemann," followed the next day by an explanation (because Oscars were not generally known there at the time) from the production company (Praesens Film): "An Oscar is the highest award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Congratulations." Ivan couldn't attend the ceremony, so the Oscar was brought to him in Prague by some members of the academy. There he received many offers (films and contracts), but it was decided by the government that he was to be "preserved to be used by the Czech film industry," but ironically, he went on to make only 3 films: 1 in 1949, 1 in 1951, and 1 in 1955. After graduating from high school, Ivan wanted to study at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU), but he was told he should not have accepted an award from the American film industry and was thus turned down. He then changed careers many times, only to return to the radio in 1965 as a program manager, becoming an announcer in 1969. In 1972, he was forced to leave radio. He had a brief stint as a stage manager in a theater in Teplice, and that was all there was for him in show business. In 1985, for the first time since 1948, he met Jarmila Novotna, the famed opera singer who portrayed his mother in The Search. In 1987, Ivan died at the age of 50 of diabetic complications in his apartment in Prague.
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Jaroslav Marvan was born on 11 December 1901 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Batalión (1937), Velké dobrodruzství (1952) and Smrt cerného krále (1972). He was married to Marie Marvanová. He died on 21 May 1974 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Actress
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Adina Mandlová was born on 28 January 1910 in Mladá Boleslav, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for The Magic House (1939), Pacientka Dr. Hegla (1940) and Prítelkyne pana ministra (1940). She was married to Ben Pearson and Joe Knight. She died on 16 June 1991 in Pribram, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Actress
- Soundtrack
Irena Kacírková was born on 24 March 1925 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Starci na chmelu (1964), Maskaráda (1963) and Voyage to the End of the Universe (1963). She died on 26 October 1985 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Evald Schorm was born on 15 December 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was a director and writer, known for Courage for Every Day (1964), Return of the Prodigal Son (1967) and The End of a Priest (1969). He was married to Blanka Schormova. He died on 14 December 1988 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Martin Fric was born on 29 March 1902 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a director and writer, known for Workers, Let's Go (1934), Capek's Tales (1947) and Tajemství krve (1953). He was married to Suzanne Marwille. He died on 26 August 1968 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.- Actor
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Jan Libícek was born on 28 September 1931 in Zlín, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973), I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970) and Prague Nights (1969). He died on 24 May 1974 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Jana Rybárová was born on 31 March 1936 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Stríbrný vítr (1956), V ulici je starý krám (1955) and Dalibor (1956). She died on 11 February 1957 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
- Lyda Salmonova was born on 14 July 1889 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for The Student of Prague (1913), Evinrude (1913) and Monna Vanna (1922). She was married to Paul Wegener. She died on 18 November 1968 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
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Václav Trégl was born on 10 December 1902 in Weißwasser, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Belá pod Bezdezem, Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Batalión (1937), The Inspector General (1933) and Divotvorný klobouk (1953). He died on 11 February 1979 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Prague, Czech Republic].- Actress
- Additional Crew
Karolína Slunécková was born on 8 April 1934 in Kladno, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Noc na Karlstejne (1974), Lekce (1972) and Bylo ctvrt a bude pul (1968). She died on 11 June 1983 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Václav Krska was born on 7 October 1900 in Pisek, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a director and writer, known for Z mého zivota (1955), Kde reky mají slunce (1961) and Dalibor (1956). He died on 17 November 1969 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Writer
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Jirí Brdecka was a Czech animator, film director, screenwriter, and satirist. He was born in the city of Hranice in Moravia, which was then part of Austria-Hungary. His father was the author Otakar Brdecka (1881 - 1930), who published works under the pen name "Alfa".
Brdecka was educated at the Charles University in Prague, where he studied philosophy and aesthetics. The German occupation in Czechoslovakia resulted in the shut down of the university in 1939, forcing Brdecka to seek employment,.He was hired as an administrative clerk by the Prague Municipal Museum, while moonlighting as a journalist and cartoonist for various newspapers.
From 1941 to 1942, Brdecka was employed as a press agent by the film studio Lucernafilm. In 1943, he started working as an animator, producing a number of short films. By the late 1940s, Brdecka was employed as a film director and screenwriter at Barrandov Studios. In 1958, he started directing his own animated feature films, while continuing to serve as a screenwriter for many other directors.
Besides his film career, Brdecka had side careers as a journalist, a film critic, and a novelist.His works on and off the screen were noted for their satirical content. As a screenwriter, he often worked on parody films, such as the comedy western "Lemonade Joe".
Brdecka died in 1982. He was 64-years-old. His daughter Tereza Brdecková had her own career as a film critic.- Marie Vásová was born on 16 May 1911 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Zíznivé mládí (1943), Svedomí (1948) and The Lost Face (1965). She died on 6 August 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Nazi official Karl Hermann Frank was an ethnic German born in Karlsbad, Austria-Hungary, on January 24, 1896. His father was an ardent German nationalist and Karl was brought up steeped in the German nationalist movement. He joined the Austro-Hungarian army near the end of World War I. After the war he opened a bookstore and involved himself in ultra-right-wing political groups and secret societies. He joined the Nazi party in 1919 and operated a Nazi bookstore, from which he distributed propaganda throughout Czechoslovakia (as the country was now known) and helped form the Sudetenland branch of the Nazi party. The Czech government banned that organization in 1933, but Frank formed a new Nazi party, renamed the Sudeten German Party (SDP), in 1935. That same year he was elected to the Czech parliament. In 1938 Germany invaded and annexed the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia, and Frank was given the title of Deputy Gauleiter of the Sudetenland--which gave him virtually absolute power--and his work impressed SS leader Heinrich Himmler so much that Himmler made him an SS-Brigadefuhrer that same year.
In 1939 Himmler promoted him to SS-Gruppenfuhrer and appointed him Secretary of State of the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, second in power only to Reich Protector Konstantin von Neurath. Frank was also placed in charge of the protectorate's police and SS forces. He used that power to hunt down and eliminate any trace of Czech resistance to the German occupation of the area. However, his boss von Neurath believed in taking a more conciliatory approach to the problem. Frank chafed at this "softer" approach, and determined to undermine von Neurath and take over his position. In September of 1941 German leader Adolf Hitler dismissed von Neurath from all of his duties except that of Reich Protector. Though Frank worked hard to be appointed Deputy Protector, that job was given to the notorious Reinhard Heydrich. However, Frank and Heydrich found that they worked well together, and soon began a ruthless campaign to rid the "protectorate" of dissidents, political opponents and Jews, arresting and killing dozens of political opponents and rounding up ever larger numbers of Jews and shipping them to concentration camps.
In May of 1942 Heydrich was assassinated by Czech partisans near the villages of Lidce and Lazaky. Heydrich was replaced by Kurt Daluege, and he and Frank devised the idea of the liquidation of the two villages; all adult males were shot, the women and children were shipped off to concentration camps and the two villages and the two villages were totally destroyed, and all traces of them were wiped off the face of the earth. In 1943 Frank was appointed Reich Minister for Bohemia and Moravia, and later that year Himmler promoted him SS-Obergruppenfurer and General of Police in Prague. He was also made a Waffen-SS General.
In May of 1945 the Germans received information about a possible uprising in Prague. Frank made a radio address in which he proclaimed that he would crush any uprising and leave "a sea of blood". As Allied forces fought their way closer to the city and appeared to be on the brink of taking it, the Czech people poured into the streets to welcome them. Frank ordered his soldiers and police to open fire on any groups of people that gathered in the streets, and they did.
Eventually American troops did take Prague and Frank fled to the Czech city of Pilsen, but on May 9, 1945, he surrendered to US forces there. The newly reconstituted Czech government requested his extradition to Prague to be tried for the crimes he committed there. His trial took place in late March and early April of 1946. He was convicted of war crimes--including the destruction of Lidice--and sentenced to death.
On May 22, 1946, he was hanged in the courtyard of Pankrac Prison in Prague before a crowd of more than 5000.