Jan Werich
Birthday
1905/02/06
Day of death
1980/10/31 (75 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Praha - Československo
Also know as
Ян Верих
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 t...Read more
Acting
(1968) Assignment K
as Dr. Spiegler
(1962) The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
as kapitán holandské lodi
(1952) The Emperor and the Golem
as Emperor Rudolf II / Matheus Kotrba, The Baker
(2006) Fimfarum 2
as Narrator
(2002) Jan Werich's Fimfarum
as Vypravěč
(1955) Two Little Frosts
as Brave Frost (voice)
(1955) Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
as král Já I.
(2011) Fimfarum - To the good of all
as (voice)
(1958) The Creation of the World
as Narrator (voice)
(1932) Your Money or Your Life
as Tonda
(1966) Pražská strašidla
as Narrator (voice)
(1950) The Fall of Berlin
as Hermann Goering
(1955) Hudba z Marsu
as Nadšený divák
(1932) Powder and Petrol
as ---
(1934) Heave-Ho!
as ---
(1937) The World Belongs to Us
as kamelot
(1960) Těžká Barbora
as ---
(1963) When the Cat Comes
as Oliva
(1956) The Good Soldier Schweik
as Narrator
(1939) Crisis
as ---
(1934) Here in Kocourkov
as Ferdinand Kaplan
(1963) Uspořená libra
as Sam Adams
(1960) Balada z hadrů
as strážný Holofern
(1964) The Dear Departed
as Dědeček
(1957) Silvestr 1957
as ---
(1991) When the Oak Leaves Fall
as Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
(1967) The 25th Hour
as Sgt. Constantin
(1963) Kočár nejsvětější svátosti
as ---
(1961) Medvěd
as statkář Grigorij Stěpanovič Smirnov
(1965) Magnetické vlny léčí
as léčitel Wohu
(1967) King and Women
as Jindřich VIII.
(1964) The Cry
as Narrator (voice)
(1963) Tears the World Can't See
as Fedor Akimič Rjebrotěsov
(1989) Mean Barbara
as Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
(1961) Italienisches Capriccio
as Don Marzio
(1957) To jsou Bratři v triku
as Himself
(1988) Pan Tau – der Film
as (archive footage)
(1951) The Golden Fish
as Narrator (voice)
(1968) Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy
as Self
(1953) Pouť noci silvestrovské
as ---
(1955) Dog's Heads
as ---
(1956) Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase
as Narrator (voice)
(1955) Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku
as Narrator (voice)
(1954) Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče
as Narrator (voice)
(1956) Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph
as Commentary (voice)
(2021) Jan Werich: Když už člověk jednou je…
as Self (archive footage)
(1986) Jonáš a Melicharová
as (archive footage)
(1981) Královna Koloběžka první
as Narrator (archive footage) (voice)
(1953) Večer s Jaroslavem Haškem
as ---
(1968) Co tomu říkáte, pane Werich?
as Self
(1970) Pan Tau
as ---
(1968) Přiložte životopis
as Self
(2005) Tři strážníci
as self
(2012) Voskovec & Werich, paralelní osudy
as self
(1968) Klapzubova jedenáctka
as ---