Jan Werich
Acting · Writing
Народився 6 лютого 1905, 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. 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".
Фільмографія
- 2026Cecílie — Voice (archive footage)
- 2011Fimfarum - To the good of all — (voice), Original Story
- 2006Fimfarum 2 — Narrator, Original Story
- 2002Jan Werich's Fimfarum — Vypravěč, Original Story
- 1997RumplCimprCampr — Book
- 1991When the Oak Leaves Fall — Narrator (voice) (archive footage), Book
- 1989Mean Barbara — Narrator (voice) (archive footage), Book
- 1988Pan Tau – der Film — (archive footage)
- 1986Jonáš a Melicharová — (archive footage)
- 1984Ruffiano and Sweeteeth — Book
- 1984The Three Veterans — Book
- 1983Echoes of the Blue Room
- 1981Královna Koloběžka první — Narrator (archive footage) (voice), Book
- 1981Přišel na večeři — Adaptation
- 1970Herecké Vánoce — Jan Werich
- Pan Tau
- 1968Assignment K — Dr. Spiegler
- Klapzubova jedenáctka
- Přiložte životopis — Self, Screenplay
- 1967Golem — Theatre Play
- 1967King and Women — Jindřich VIII., Adaptation
- 1967The 25th Hour — Sgt. Constantin
- 1966Pražská strašidla — Narrator (voice)
- 1965Magnetické vlny léčí — léčitel Wohu
- 1964The Cry — Narrator (voice)
- 1964The Dear Departed — Dědeček
- 1964Three veterans — Original Story
- 1963Kočár nejsvětější svátosti — Screenplay
- 1963Tears the World Can't See — Fedor Akimič Rjebrotěsov
- 1963Uspořená libra — Sam Adams, Adaptation, Screenplay
- 1963When the Cat Comes — Oliva
- 1962The Fabulous Baron Munchausen — kapitán holandské lodi
- 1961Italienisches Capriccio — Don Marzio
- 1961Medvěd — statkář Grigorij Stěpanovič Smirnov
- 1960Balada z hadrů — strážný Holofern, Theatre Play
- 1960Těžká Barbora — Theatre Play
- 1958The Creation of the World — Narrator (voice)
- 1957Silvestr 1957
- 1956Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph — Commentary (voice)
- 1956Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase — Narrator (voice)
- 1956The Good Soldier Svejk — Narrator, Adaptation
- 1955Dog's Heads
- 1955Hudba z Marsu — Nadšený divák
- 1955Once Upon a Time, There Was a King... — král Já I., Dialogue, Story, Screenplay
- 1955Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku — Narrator (voice)
- 1955Two Little Frosts — Brave Frost (voice)
- 1954Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče — Narrator (voice)
- 1953Pouť noci silvestrovské
- 1953The Secret of Blood — Screenstory
- 1953Večer s Jaroslavem Haškem
- 1951Císařův pekař — Rudolf II. / Matěj Kotrba, Screenplay
- 1951Pekařův císař — Rudolf II. / Matěj Kotrba, Screenplay
- 1951The Emperor and the Golem — Emperor Rudolf II / Matheus Kotrba, The Baker, Creative Producer, Screenplay, Story
- 1951The Golden Fish — Narrator (voice), Screenplay, Story
- 1950The Fall of Berlin — Goering
- 1939Crisis
- 1937The World Belongs to Us — kamelot, Theatre Play, Screenplay, Lyricist
- 1936The Golem — Theatre Play
- 1934Heave-Ho! — Screenplay, Story
- 1934Here in Kocourkov — Ferdinand Kaplan, Lyricist
- 1932Powder and Petrol — Screenplay, Story, Producer
- 1932Your Money or Your Life — Tonda, Screenplay, Story
Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (6)
- 2021Jan Werich: Když už člověk jednou je… — Self (archive footage)
- Voskovec & Werich, paralelní osudy — self
- Tři strážníci — self
- Co tomu říkáte, pane Werich? — Self
- 1968Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy — Self
- 1957To jsou Bratři v triku — Himself