Zdeněk Svěrák

Zdeněk Svěrák
File:Zdenek Sverak.jpg Zdeněk Svěrák
Born	(1936-04-28) 28 April 1936 Prague, Czechoslovakia
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1968 – present

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.

Filmography

Acting

Year	Title	Role	English title
2010	Kuky se vrací	Captain von Hergot (voice)	Kooky
2007	Vratné lahve	Josef Tkaloun	Empties
1996	Kolja	František Louka	Kolya
1994	Akumulátor 1	Fišárek: a natural healer	Accumulator 1
1991	Obecná škola	Fanouš Souček, Eda's father	The Elementary School
1988	Nejistá sezóna	Rybník	An Uncertain Season
1986	Rohy	Narrator	The Horns
1985	Jak básníci přicházejí o iluze	Doc. Zajíc	How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions
	Jako jed	Pavel Hnyk	As Good as Poison
	Vesničko má středisková	Ryba	My Sweet Little Village
1984	Tři veteráni	ministr/Minister	Three Veterans
	Co je vám, doktore?	Bohouš Burda	What's Up Doc?
	Rozpuštěný a vypuštěný	Jelinek	Dissolved and Effused
	Slavnosti sněženek	Trabi Driver	The Snowdrop Festival
1983	Jára Cimrman ležící, spící (as Zdeněk Svěrák and Collective)	Jára da Cimrman	Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
1982	Jako zajíci	Dušek	Like Rabbits
	Srdečný pozdrav ze zeměkoule	scientist who looks for prof. Cimrman	Hearty greetings from Earth
1981	Kalamita	Teacher	Calamity
	V podstatě jsme normální
1980	Brontosaurus	Bobr
	Trhák	Screenwriter Jíša	The Hit
	Vrchní, prchni!	Pařízek	Run Waiter Run
1979	Kam nikdo nesmí		Where nobody can enter
1978	Kulový blesk	Dr. Ječný	Ball Lightning
1977	30 panen a Pythagoras	Teacher	Thirty maidens and Pythagoras
1976	Marečku, podejte mi pero!	Šlajs	Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
	Na samotě u lesa	Oldřich Lavička	Seclusion Near a Forest
1974	Jáchyme, hoď ho do stroje!	Klasek	Joachim, Put It in the Machine
1970	Lucie a zázraky		Lucie and the Miracles
	Pane, vy jste vdova!	Critic	You Are a Widow, Sir
1969	Skřivánci na niti (as Václav Svěrák)	Delegate URO	Larks on a String
1968	Zločin v šantánu	Procurator	Crime in a Music Hall

External links

• IMDb record
• overview of Zdeněk Svěrák comedies
• Biography (in Czech)
• CRo-Tatinek