Zdeněk Svěrák
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Zdeněk Svěrák (born 28 March 1936 in Prague) is a Czech actor, humorist and scriptwriter. He is one of the most popular Czech cultural personalities. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.
In 1958, he graduated in Czech language and literature at the Faculty of Education of Charles University in 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 film scripts are Kolya (Czech: Kolja, Academy Award winning film) and The Elementary School (Czech: Obecná Škola, nomination for Academy Award), both directed by his son Jan Svěrák. With his close friend Ladislav Smoljak, he created the fictional personality (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminalist, poet, writer and philosopher) Jára Cimrman who won the voting for The Greatest Czech in 2005 (only the fact that Cimrman is fictional prevented him from actually winning). Zdeněk Svěrák also founded a charity organization Paraple (in English, "Umbrella") which focuses on helping paralyzed individuals.
Known for
StarDance
Special Judge
Úsměvy
Host
Kam zmizel ten starý song
Self
Zpátky se Sobotou
Self (archive footage)
Největší Čech
Zdeněk Svěrák
Galasuperšou
Cimrman sobě
Kolya
František Louka
Daddy
Self
Hearty Greetings from the Globe
Larks on a String
Empties
Josef Tkaloun
The Elementary School
Fan Souček, Eda's dad
How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions
You Are a Widow, Sir
kritik v divadle
My Sweet Little Village
Malíř
Barefoot
Headmaster
Kooky
Hergot (voice)
The Snowdrop Festival
řidič trabanta
An Uncertain Season
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
Šlajs
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
Jára Cimrman
Three Brothers
Vypravěč
What's Up Doc?
Bohouš Burda
Run, Waiter, Run!
Pařízek
Secluded, Near Woods
Lavička
Joachim, Put It in the Machine
podnikový psycholog Klásek
40 let Divadla Járy Cimrmana aneb Ze hry do hry
The Three Veterans
ministr
Accumulator 1
Fišárek
As Good as Poison
Pavel Hnyk
Ruffiano and Sweeteeth
vypravěč
The Hit
scénárista Jíša
Dissolved and Effused
Jelínek
Crime in the Night Club
Prokurátor
The Presence of Arnošt Lustig
Self
Basically Normal
Bethlehem Light
Karel Šejnoha
Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti
Self
The Horns
Like Rabbits
otec Dusek
Calamity
učitel
Lucie and the Miracles
Constable (voice)
Investigation of the Loss of a Class Book
Teacher
Anatomie gagu
Long, Broad and Nearsight
Clever-eyesighted
Brontosaurus
Bobr
Pocta V+W
Self
30 Maidens and Pythagoras
profesor (uncredited)
Cimrmani zblízka
Ball Lightning
Dr. Ječný
Chain
Mikeš (voice)
Inzerát
Moderní byt
Já a moji synové...
Self
Psaní do nebe
Lijavec
Inspektor starobinců
Léta s Jaromírem Hanzlíkem
Self
Pub in the Glade
Taverner
The Nude
Dr. Turnovský
Tvrdý chleba
The Conquest of the North Pole
Underground Teacher
Cimrman in the World of Music
colonel "Colonel"
Bridal Tour to Jilji
průvodčí
Cimrmani
Self
Dumb Bobes, or Czech Tarzan
Physician
Africa
Dr. Emil Žába
The Stand In
Vavroch
Silvestr 71
Self
Kouzelný kopec
Self
Czech Heaven
Jan Ámos Komenský
Stopa vede do Liptákova
Chinaski: Každej ví kulový
Self
Operky
Perspektiva Ivana Mládka
Self
Narostl mu hřebínek
Vypravěč
Veselé příhody z natáčení
Minišou Karla Šípa
Self