Jan Werich
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1905-02-06
Deathday 1980-10-31 (75 years old)
Place of Birth Praha - Československo
Also Known As Ян Верих
Jan Werich
Biography
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".
Known For
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as (voice)
as Narrator
as self
as Vypravěč
as Narrator (voice) (archive sound)
as (archive footage)
as Vypravěč
as Dr. Spiegler
as Self
as Self
as Jindřich VIII.
as Sgt. Constantin
as Narrator (voice)
as léčitel Wohu
as Dědeček
as Narrator (voice)
as Sam Adams
as Fedor Akimič Rjebrotěsov
as Oliva
as kapitán holandské lodi
as Don Marzio
as statkář Grigorij Stěpanovič Smirnov
as strážný Holofern
as druhý žoldnéř
as Narrator (voice)
as Himself
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Commentary (voice)
as Nadšený divák
as Brave Frost (voice)
as král Já I.
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Emperor Rudolf II / Matheus Kotrba, The Baker
as Narrator (voice)
as Hermann Goering
as kamelot
as Ferdinand Kaplan
as Tonda
Writer
as Original Story
as Writer
as Author
as Book
as Book
as Screenplay
as Theatre Play
as Adaptation
as Original Story
as Adaptation
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Writer
as Theatre Play
as Adaptation
as Dialogue
as Screenplay
as Screenstory
as Creative Producer
as Screenplay
as Story
as Screenplay
as Story
as Theatre Play
as Screenplay
as Lyricist
as Theatre Play
as Screenplay
as Story
as Lyricist
as Screenplay
as Screenplay
as Story
as Story
Producer
as Producer