Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 22, 1922
Died
Feb 16, 1996
Place of Birth
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Credits
252 titles
Miloš Kopecký
Biography
Miloš Kopecký was a Czech actor, active mainly in the second half of the 20th century. He was born into the family of craftsmen, Kopecký was involved with music and theater throughout his entire life. Starting on stage in 1939, as a member of an amateur elocution group, Kopecký performed with numerous young artists during the German occupation of then Czechoslovakia. Near the end of World War II, Kopecký’s mother was murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp for her Jewish heritage, while Miloš was interned in the labor camp Bystřice u Benešova. He would later credit these experiences as the cause for his struggle with Bipolar Disorder, then known as Manic-Depressive Disease. Following the liberation, Kopecký began acting in the avant-garde studio Větrník in 1945, before joining the Vinohrady Theatre in 1965 at the behest of then-director František Pavlíček. Kopecký continued to make guest appearances at theaters throughout Prague, working with many notable actors of his era before appearing on film and television. His first minor role was in the historic film Jan Roháč z Dubé (1947), but he quickly graduated to more important characters and gradually became one of the most popular actors in Czechoslovakia. He may be best known today as Dr. Štrosmajer in the Czech television series Nemocnice na kraji města. During his career he played mainly negative roles of traitors, lechers, and villain, which he famously depicted with elegance and esprit. In the mid-1980s Kopecký acted in a politically biased documentary film about emigrants, and also presented very critical speech against current communist régimes in May, 1987, at the Fourth Congress of Dramatic Artists. He was married five times, at one point to Czech actress Stella Zázvorková.
Known For
Filmography
Příběhy slavných
Self (archive footage)
The Magic Book
Regent
Učitel tance
Granfather of Richard
GENUS
Self
Angelic Eyes
Krause
The Canary Connection
Don Padre
Uctivá poklona, pane Kohn
Munk
La valle di pietra
My Pragues Understand Me
Giacomo Casanova
Labyrinth
Rabbi Löw
Honorární konzul
Radostný život posmrtný
Devět kapitol ze starého dějepisu
Šaráda
Utopím si ho sám
Chouň
Dokonalý muž, dokonalá žena aneb Návštěva mladé dámy
Co medvědi nevědí
Kouzelník
Mistr Kornelius
An Angel Seduces the Devil
Mistr Pleticha a pastýř Jehňátko
Stařeček vavříny vídeňské slávy ověnčený aneb Zpronevěra
Sepl Noowi
Viktor Veliký
To se ti povedlo, tatínku!
Josef Břoušek
Poslední leč Alfonse Karáska
Alfons Karásek
Vyhnanství
Fair Play
Bayer
O nejchytřejší princezně
Prstýnek bez kamínku
The Great Movie Robbery
Španělská paradentóza
Klobouk, měšec a láska
King
Růžový Hubert
Lord Henry
Eine zauberhafte Erbschaft
Vetešník
Slavné historky zbojnické
Narrator
Sny kominíka Sazivce
kouzelník
Písničky Na zábradlí
Host
Jak se tančí brumbambule
Král
Když vy jste taková jiná...
Extended Time
Karel Svozil
Paragrafy na kolech
Prague – The Restless Heart of Europe
(uncredited)
Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval
Self - Host
Medvěd
The Secret of an Old Attic
Boss
Bambinot
Nikolas Mitropulos
The Three Veterans
skřítek
Zbohom, sladké driemoty
Angel in a Devil's Body
Galasuperšou
Dům na nebesích
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