Jiří Voskovec
Gender: Male
Born: 19th June 1905
Died: 4th July 1981
Nationality: United States of America, France
TV programs: Nero Wolfe, Skag
Movies: Paradise Lost, 12 Angry Men, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The 27th Day, Mister Buddwing, Somewhere in Time, Uncle Vanya, The Boston Strangler, Barbarosa, The Bravados, Affair in Trinidad, The Iron Mistress, Happy Days, The World Is Ours, The Nativity
Jiří Voskovec (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈvoskovɛts] ( listen)) (June 19, 1905 in Sázava (Benešov District), Bohemia as Jiří Wachsmann – July 1, 1981 in Pearblossom, California, U.S. as George Voskovec) was a Czech-American actor, playwright, dramatist, director, translator, and poet. Throughout most of his career he was associated with Jan Werich.
He attended school in Prague and in Dijon, France, and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1955.
In 1927, together with Werich, he joined the Osvobozené divadlo (Liberated Theater), which had been created two years earlier by members of the avant-garde Devětsil group, Jiří Frejka and Jindřich Honzl. After disagreements led Frejka to leave the group in 1927, Honzl asked Voskovec and Werich, 22-year-old law students who had created a sensation with their Vest Pocket Revue that year, to join the theatre. When Honzl, who had directed their productions, left in 1929, Voskovec and Werich took control of the theatre and changed its name to the Liberated Theatre of Voskovec and Werich, assuming all responsibility for direction, writing, librettos, and other artistic decisions. The Liberated became a center for Czech
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