Pavel Landovský

Pavel Landovský was born on September 11, 1936, in Německý (Havlíčkův) Brod in the family of an agricultural engineer. He completed an apprenticeship for a tool maker and graduated at a secondary school in Teplice. He began his acting career (without a formal acting education) in Šumperk and via Klatovy and Pardubice got to Prague, where he became one of the leading actors of the Drama Club of the 1960s. In 1977, he signed the Charter 77, took part in opposition activities and became an actor of the "flat theater" (Play Macbeth). In 1979, he left for two years to the Burgtheater in Austria, where he was subsequently forced to stay. After the revolution in 1989, he performed alternately on Czech and German stages and played a huge number of roles in theater and film. He is an important Czech actor and playwright. He acted - among other - in the following movies: Svatba jako řemen, Soukromá vichřice, Penzion pro svobodné pány, Markéta Lazarová, Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí, Černí baroni, Vratné lahve. His theatre plays include: Hodinový hotel, Případ pro vesnického policajta, Arest, Sanitární noc, Protentokrát zbohatnem.

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