Ladislav Smoljak
- Directing
- December 9, 1931 · Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
- June 6, 2010
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ladislav Smoljak (9 December 1931 – 6 June 2010) was a Czech film and theater director, actor and screenwriter. He was born in Prague. Smoljak tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to study physics and mathematics, and later worked as journalist and scriptwriter. Together with Zdeněk Svěrák he founded the Theater of Jára Cimrman (Divadlo Járy Cimrmana, DJC) in Prague, named after a fictitious genius. Smoljak wrote scripts and directed several films; these became very successful in the Czech Republic. He died of cancer on 6 June 2010 in Kladno.
Known for
Filmography
- Zpátky se Sobotou · Self
- Hymna aneb Urfidlovačka · Mareš, Director
- Jiří z Poděbrad · narrator
- Czech Heaven · Jan Ámos Komenský, Director
- Anatomie gagu
- 40 let Divadla Járy Cimrmana aneb Ze hry do hry · Screenplay, Director
- Long, Broad and Nearsight · Director, Writer
- The Conquest of the North Pole · Varel Frištenský, Director
- Cimrman in the World of Music · Director, Screenplay
- Největší Čech · Ladislav Smoljak
- Daddy · Self
- Africa · Writer, Director
- Krásný ztráty · Self
- Investigation of the Loss of a Class Book · Headmaster, Writer
- The Nude · Láďa Pýcha, Director
- Cimrmani · Self
- Plum Tree · Přemysl Hájek, Railway Ganger Ret., Director
- The Stand In · Writer, Director
- Dvě z policejní brašny · Director
- Lijavec · Inspektor starobinců, Director
- Posel z Liptákova · Standa, Grim Reaper
- Dumb Bobes, or Czech Tarzan · Gamekeeper / Baron Walter von Grünbach / Wassermann, Director
- Pub in the Glade · Escapee Kulhánek, Writer
- Murder in a Parlor Car Compartment · Inspector Trachta, Director
- Blaník · Veverka z Bitýšky, Director
- A znovu Žebrácká opera · Self
- Kolya · Houdek
- Accumulator 1 · Caretaker
- The Immortal Woman
- Ať ten kůň mlčí! · Director, Lyricist
- Osvětová přednáška v Suché Vrbici · Director
- Motýl na anténě · Director
- Cimrman sobě · Theatre Play
- Dobytí severního pólu · Varel Frištenský, Theatre Play
- Tvrdý chleba · Director, Screenplay
- An Uncertain Season · Story, Director
- Veselé příhody z natáčení · Director, Writer
- What's Up Doc?
- Dissolved and Effused · Director, Screenplay
- Bridal Tour to Jilji · úředník - Ztrátya nálezy
- Inzerát · Screenplay, Story
- Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping · c. k. policajt u Moře v Praze, Director
- The Hit · Kohoutek, Director, Screenplay
- Run, Waiter, Run! · psovod, Director
- The Puppet, a Friend of Man · Director
- Ball Lightning · Ing. Severín, Director
- Ostrov plný písniček
- Dveře · Director
- To byla svatba, strýčku · Viktor
- Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! · Tuček, Story
- Secluded, Near Woods · Radim Zvon, Screenplay
- Joachim, Put It in the Machine · vedoucí servisu Karfík, Story
- Homolka and Pocketbook · hotelový host
- You Are a Widow, Sir · kritik v divadle
- Crime in the Night Club · Novinár
- Joseph Kilian