Cast
Jan Werich
Acting
Cast
Jan Werich
Known for
Acting
Born
1905-02-06
From
Praha - Československo
Died
1980-10-31
Also known 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 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".
★6.8
MOVIE1958
The Creation of the World
as Narrator (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE1955
Two Little Frosts
as Brave Frost (voice)
★7.7
MOVIE1967
The 25th Hour
as Sgt. Constantin
MOVIE1970
Herecké Vánoce
as Jan Werich
★8.2
MOVIE1989
Mean Barbara
as Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
★7.4
MOVIE1962
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
as kapitán holandské lodi
MOVIE1956
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase
as Narrator (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE2002
Jan Werich's Fimfarum
as Vypravěč
★7.0
MOVIE1951
The Emperor and the Golem
as Emperor Rudolf II / Matheus Kotrba, The Baker
★8.0
MOVIE1932
Powder and Petrol
MOVIE1957
Silvestr 1957
★8.0
MOVIE1955
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
as král Já I.
★7.3
MOVIE1956
The Good Soldier Svejk
as Narrator
★7.2
MOVIE1937
The World Belongs to Us
as kamelot
★6.3
MOVIE1968
Assignment K
as Dr. Spiegler
★5.0
MOVIE1950
The Fall of Berlin
as Goering
★6.9
MOVIE1963
When the Cat Comes
as Oliva
★6.5
MOVIE1965
Magnetické vlny léčí
as léčitel Wohu
MOVIE1983
Echoes of the Blue Room
MOVIE1968
Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy
as Self
MOVIE1953
Večer s Jaroslavem Haškem
MOVIE2021
Jan Werich: Když už člověk jednou je…
as Self (archive footage)
★8.0
MOVIE1967
King and Women
as Jindřich VIII.
★7.8
MOVIE1963
Uspořená libra
as Sam Adams
★6.4
MOVIE1988
Pan Tau – der Film
as (archive footage)
★7.5
MOVIE2006
Fimfarum 2
as Narrator
MOVIE1966
Pražská strašidla
as Narrator (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE1934
Heave-Ho!
★8.0
MOVIE1939
Crisis
★8.5
MOVIE1961
Medvěd
as statkář Grigorij Stěpanovič Smirnov
★6.1
MOVIE1955
Hudba z Marsu
as Nadšený divák
MOVIE1981
Královna Koloběžka první
as Narrator (archive footage) (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1964
The Dear Departed
as Dědeček
★5.7
MOVIE1955
Dog's Heads
★7.0
MOVIE1964
The Cry
as Narrator (voice)
★5.9
MOVIE1956
Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph
as Commentary (voice)
★7.5
MOVIE1932
Your Money or Your Life
as Tonda
★10.0
MOVIE1961
Italienisches Capriccio
as Don Marzio
★6.1
MOVIE1951
The Golden Fish
as Narrator (voice)
★8.3
MOVIE1963
Tears the World Can't See
as Fedor Akimič Rjebrotěsov
★6.2
MOVIE1960
Těžká Barbora
★7.0
MOVIE2011
Fimfarum - To the good of all
as (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1960
Balada z hadrů
as strážný Holofern
★7.4
MOVIE1934
Here in Kocourkov
as Ferdinand Kaplan
MOVIE2025
Cecílie
as voice
MOVIE1955
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku
as Narrator (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE1963
Kočár nejsvětější svátosti
★8.8
MOVIE1991
When the Oak Leaves Fall
as Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
MOVIE1954
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE1953
Pouť noci silvestrovské
MOVIE1957
To jsou Bratři v triku
as Himself
★9.0
MOVIE1986
Jonáš a Melicharová
as (archive footage)