Jan Tříska
Gender: Male
Born: 4th November 1936 (currently 75 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: The Elementary School, Lunacy, Drawn from Memory, Up and Down, May, Blizzard, The Omega Code, Undercover Blues, Loose Cannons, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, Unfaithfully Yours, Seclusion Near a Forest, People on Wheels, Andersonville, The Karate Kid, Part III
Jan Triska or Jan Tříska (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈtr̝̊iːska]; 4 November 1936) is a Czech-American actor.
He was born in Prague. Before his emigration he performed in the theater and had many roles in movies, the movie version of Radúz a Mahulena (1970) and in the communist propaganda piece 30 Cases of Major Zeman. He has two daughter karla and Jana with actress Karla Chadimová as well as a grandson named Augustin.
After signing the Charter 77 proclamation he emigrated to the United States via Cyprus. In the U.S. his most notable role was probably that of Milos, the loyal butler and personal assistant to Mr. Terry Silver, in The Karate Kid, Part III. He also played the assassin in Miloš Forman's The People vs. Larry Flynt, and appeared in Highlander: The Series (season 5, episode 10), Highlander: The Raven, Blizzard, The Osterman Weekend, Ronin, Apt Pupil, (as Isaac Weiskopf) and Peter Hyams' ambitious and successful sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010: The Year We Make Contact among many others.
Despite occasional visits to the Czech Republic, Tříska continues to live in the United States.
He visited Czechoslovakia after the Velvet
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