- Zdeněk Svěrák
Zdeněk Svěrák (born
March 28 ,1936 ) is a Czech actor, humorist and scriptwriter. He is one of the most popular Czech cultural personalities.He was a member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1961 to 1969, which he discussed in interview for Czech magazine "Reflex" [ [http://www.reflex.cz/Clanek5625.html Reflex.cz - Pravděpodobnost nenávratu ] ] .Born in
Prague , he studiedPedagogy atCharles University of Prague . He has worked in a wide variety of capacities. His work contains more than 300 musical texts, plays and more than ten movies. Among his most famous film scripts are "Kolya " (Czech: "Kolja",Academy Award winning film) and "The Elementary School " (Czech: "Obecná Škola", nomination for Academy Award). With his close friend,Ladislav Smoljak , they created the popular fictional personality (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminalist, poet, writer and philosopher)Jára Cimrman who won the voting for The Greatest Czech in2005 (only the fact that Cimrman is fictional prevented him from actually winning).His son
Jan Svěrák is a film director.Filmography
Acting
References
External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006664/ IMDb record]
* [http://avenarius.sk/Zden%C4%9Bk_Sv%C4%9Br%C3%A1k overview of Zdeněk Svěrák comedies]
* [http://www.libri.cz/databaze/kdo20/list.php?od=s&start=92&count=1 Biography (in Czech)]
* [http://www.radio.cz/en/article/58675 CRo-Tatinek]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.