Václav Lohniský (Actor)

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Movies starring Václav Lohniský have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 70%.

All My Good Countrymen - released in 1969 - is Václav Lohniský's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 5 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Václav Lohniský is Three Wishes - released in 1963 - with a score of 64% based on 31 reviews.

Actor Biography

He was born in 1920 in the Razor near Pardubice. In 1946 he graduated from the prague conservatory. He wanted to be a director, which from the beginning was preparing acting work in avant-garde theater Pinwheel (1944-1946) and in the theatre of Young pioneers (1946-1948). Then, he started to work as a director in Ostrava and Pilsen. Directed and opera by Bedřich Smetana. From 1956 until his death in 1980 he worked as a šéfrežisér theatre With. To. Neumann (today the Theatre pod Palmovkou theatre) in Prague-Libeň. In 1958 he became director of the theatre. The game, which he directed should be of high artistic quality. Together with Jaroslav Dudkem sought to the genre and thematic diversity of the repertoire. For jehov leadership, the theatre focused on comedy (on the stage of the theatre he has also worked as a playwright J. Dietl). The most famous productions of plays that he directed were: the View from the bridge, the Aristocrats, the musical Jesse B. Semple is getting married with a bunch of songs J. Dry and J. Šlitra, the Three musketeers, Who would be Kafka was afraid of the ad. In 1959, as a guest, he directed the first game of the theatre traffic Light Man from the soil. In the late sixties created a glorious staging of sophocles ' tragedy Oedipus the ruler. A total of řežířoval 105 plays. He also worked as an actor in the film. The first time you played in 1949 in the film Even the angels are losing patience. Although his name most of the people does not say anything, everyone can see his face in the context of the familiar characters from the movies, comedies or fairy tales. The best known include the figure of the grim Reaper of fairy tales Dařbuján and P, the doctor basket case of comedy Jáchyme throw him into the machine!, Hujera of comedy marky boy pass me the pen!, further then the character of the monk from the movie by Otakar Vávra Hammer of the witches. Also played in the movies Higher principle, All good citizens, the Girl on killing, the Smoke of potato tops, Krakonoš and Lyžníci etc. Even if with only one exception (he played the main character role in the Slovak film 322, the figure of a man who finds himself in hospital with suspected serious disease, and reassessing his life, in this psychological drama performed Lohniský your actor's art), played a minor role, yet his artful manifestation proved indelibly imprinted in the memory of viewers. He was tall, thin, had a high forehead, penetrating gaze. He was endowed with a demonic smile, he was a master of facial expressions, gestures, excellently played by the cunning, flattering figure as well so but he managed to his characters bring humor. He played in 129 movies. His wife was Zora Jiráková, also an actress. Their daughter Michael Lohniská is also an actress and currently operating in the liberec theatre of F. X. Šaldy, where he is also director of the. Václav Lohniský was very passion for his work. Even after three heart attacks it constantly played in the movies and directed the game. Unfortunately it happened to him fatal. He died in 1980 during the filming of the movie Krakonoš and Lyžníci, when he ascended on high hill, where he had to ski down got already the fourth heart attack and his heart failed. He died in 59 years.

Václav Lohniský has acted in films with Vlastimil Brodský, Josef Hlinomaz, Karel Vochoč and Rade Marković.

Václav Lohniský has worked with these film directors: Ján Kadár, Vojtěch Jasný and Elmar Klos.