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Miloš Kopecký

Miloš Kopecký

Actor · 1922 – 1996 · Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Miloš Kopecký was a Czech actor, active mainly in the second half of the 20th century.  He was born into the family of craftsmen, Kopecký was involved with music and theater throughout his entire life.  Starting on stage in 1939, as a member of an amateur elocution group, Kopecký performed with numerous young artists during the German occupation of then Czechoslovakia.  Near the end of World War II, Kopecký’s mother was murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp for her Jewish heritage, while Miloš was interned in the labor camp Bystřice u Benešova.  He would later credit these experiences as the cause for his struggle with Bipolar Disorder, then known as Manic-Depressive Disease.   Following the liberation, Kopecký began acting in the avant-garde studio Větrník in 1945, before joining the Vinohrady Theatre in 1965 at the behest of then-director František Pavlíček.  Kopecký  continued to make guest appearances at theaters throughout Prague, working with many notable actors of his era before appearing on film and television.  His first minor role was in the historic film Jan Roháč z Dubé (1947), but he quickly graduated to more important characters and gradually became one of the most popular actors in Czechoslovakia.   He may be best known today as Dr. Štrosmajer in the Czech television series Nemocnice na kraji města.  During his career he played mainly negative roles of traitors, lechers, and villain, which he famously depicted with elegance and esprit.   In the mid-1980s Kopecký acted in a politically biased documentary film about emigrants, and also presented very critical speech against current communist régimes in May, 1987, at the Fourth Congress of Dramatic Artists.  He was married five times, at one point to Czech actress Stella Zázvorková.

Movies23

  • Movie5.6

    Slaměný klobouk

    Straw Hat

    1972 · 8 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Dýmky

    The Pipes

    1966 · 3 votes

  • Movie7.4

    Baron Prášil

    The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

    1962 · 96 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Tajemství hradu v Karpatech

    The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians

    1981 · 38 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Jak utopit dr. Mráčka aneb Konec vodníků v Čechách

    How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer

    1975 · 37 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Limonádový Joe aneb Koňská opera

    Lemonade Joe

    1964 · 75 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Srdečný pozdrav ze zeměkoule

    Hearty Greetings from the Globe

    1983 · 9 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Adéla ještě nevečeřela

    Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

    1978 · 59 votes

  • Movie7.8

    Tři veteráni

    The Three Veterans

    1984 · 40 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Dobrý voják Švejk

    The Good Soldier Švejk

    1957 · 43 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Zabil jsem Einsteina, pánové...

    I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen

    1970 · 30 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Jindřich IV.

    1968 · 1 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Byl jednou jeden král...

    Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...

    1955 · 35 votes

  • Movie

    Úřad

    1968

  • Movie6.8

    „Pane, vy jste vdova!“

    You Are a Widow, Sir

    1971 · 29 votes

  • Movie7.0

    6 medvědů s Cibulkou

    Six Bears and a Clown

    1972 · 19 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Konec cesty

    1960 · 3 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Kočičina

    Caterwauling

    1960 · 2 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Císařův pekař – Pekařův císař

    The Emperor and the Golem

    1951 · 48 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.9

    Daleká cesta

    Distant Journey

    1949 · 21 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie5.9

    Kouzelný měšec

    The Magic Book

    1996 · 9 votes

Series21

  • TV7.0

    Bakaláři

    1972 · 2 votes

  • TV7.3

    30 případů majora Zemana

    Thirty Cases of Major Zema

    1976 · 11 votes

  • TV7.1

    Pan Tau

    1970 · 17 votes

  • TV7.0

    Příběhy slavných

    2000 · 1 votes

  • TV6.7
  • TV
  • TV

    GENUS

    1995

  • TV8.0
  • TV7.8
  • TV7.7
  • TV
  • TV7.0

    Klapzubova jedenáctka

    1968 · 1 votes

  • TV
  • TV
  • TV
  • TV
  • TV6.3

    Bambinot

    1984 · 4 votes

  • TV8.0

    Bejvávalo

    1966 · 1 votes

  • TV
  • TV
  • TV