Jan Werich
Actor
Born February 6, 1905 in Praha - 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.
Filmography
Jan Werich: Když už člověk jednou je…
Self (archive footage)
Fimfarum - To the good of all
(voice)
Fimfarum 2
Narrator
Jan Werich's Fimfarum
Vypravěč
RumplCimprCampr
When the Oak Leaves Fall
Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
Mean Barbara
Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
Pan Tau – der Film
(archive footage)
Ruffiano and Sweeteeth
The Three Veterans
Echoes of the Blue Room
Pan Tau
Assignment K
Dr. Spiegler
Klapzubova jedenáctka
The 25th Hour
Sgt. Constantin
Magnetické vlny léčí
léčitel Wohu
Three veterans
The Cry
Narrator (voice)
Uspořená libra
Sam Adams
Kočár nejsvětější svátosti
Tears the World Can't See
Fedor Akimič Rjebrotěsov
When the Cat Comes
Oliva
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
kapitán holandské lodi
Italienisches Capriccio
Don Marzio
Medvěd
statkář Grigorij Stěpanovič Smirnov
Balada z hadrů
strážný Holofern
The Creation of the World
Narrator (voice)
The Good Soldier Svejk
Narrator
Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph
Commentary (voice)
Hudba z Marsu
Nadšený divák
Two Little Frosts
Brave Frost (voice)
Dog's Heads
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
král Já I.
The Secret of Blood
The Emperor and the Golem
Emperor Rudolf II / Matheus Kotrba, The Baker
The Fall of Berlin
Goering
Crisis
The World Belongs to Us
kamelot
The Golem
Heave-Ho!
Your Money or Your Life
Tonda
Powder and Petrol