Jan Werich

Known for ActingBorn 1905-02-06Died 1980-10-31Praha - Československo

Between 1916 and 1924, Werich attended "reálné gymnasium" (equivalent to high school) in Křemencova Street in Prague (where his future business partner, Jiří Voskovec, also studied). He studied law at the Charles University Law School from 1924 to 1927, from which he made an early departure to begin his artistic career and forge one of the most important partnerships of his life. For more than 10 years he worked in theatre Jiří Voskovec and Jaroslav Ježek. Their partnership was a platform for their numerous left-wing political satires, most notably in the Osvobozené divadlo (Liberated Theatre). The trio's work took inspiration from Dada, with its love of the absurd, a reaction against bourgeois values and the horrors of World War I. In 1955 he begun working in cinema, and 1960s were a peak in his actor career. From the creation of the ABC Theatre he moved to the City Theatres of Prague and then to the Musical Theatre of Karlin and Nusle. Werich was originally cast by producer Harry Saltzman to play Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice. Upon his arrival at the Pinewood set, both producer Albert R. Broccoli and director Lewis Gilbert felt that he was a poor choice, resembling a "poor, benevolent Santa Claus".Read more

Movies & web series

Co tomu říkáte, pane Werich?

Italienisches Capriccio

Jonáš a Melicharová

When the Oak Leaves Fall

Medvěd

Mean Barbara

Tears the World Can't See

King and Women

The Three Veterans

Fimfarum 2

Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...

Uspořená libra

Crisis

The 25th Hour

Powder and Petrol

Fimfarum - To the good of all

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

Jan Werich's Fimfarum

The Good Soldier Svejk

Your Money or Your Life

Pan Tau

Here in Kocourkov

Klapzubova jedenáctka

Golem

The Dear Departed

The Cry

Balada z hadrů

The World Belongs to Us

RumplCimprCampr

When the Cat Comes

The Emperor and the Golem

The Creation of the World

Pan Tau – der Film

Kočár nejsvětější svátosti

Ruffiano and Sweeteeth

Magnetické vlny léčí

Two Little Frosts

Heave-Ho!

The Secret of Blood

Assignment K

Těžká Barbora

The Golden Fish

Hudba z Marsu

Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph

Dog's Heads

The Golem

The Fall of Berlin

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