Career
He appeared in more than one hundred films, and is considered a key figure in the postwar development of Czechoslovakian cinema. He also played the king in the hit children"s television series Arabela and as Alois Drchlík in The Visitors. His final film role was as a pensioner named Frantisek in Autumn Spring.
This role earned him his first and only Czechoslovakian Lion (a prestigious film award), for best actor.
