Jan Werich

Actor

Born: February 6, 1905
Died: October 31, 1980 (age 75)
From: Praha - Československo

Between 1916 and 1924, Werich attended "reálné gymnasium" (equivalent to high school) in Křemencova Street in Prague (where his future business partner, Jiří Voskovec, also studied). He studied law at the Charles University Law School from 1924 to 1927, from which he made an early departure to begin his artistic career and forge one of the most important partnerships of his life. For more than…

Filmography (52)

Cecílie
Cecílie (2025)
voice
Jan Werich: Když už člověk jednou je… (2021)
Self (archive footage)
Fimfarum - To the good of all (2011)
(voice)
Fimfarum 2 (2006)
Narrator
Jan Werich's Fimfarum (2002)
Vypravěč
When the Oak Leaves Fall (1991)
Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
Mean Barbara (1989)
Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
Pan Tau – der Film (1988)
(archive footage)
Jonáš a Melicharová
Jonáš a Melicharová (1986)
(archive footage)
Echoes of the Blue Room (1983)
Královna Koloběžka první
Královna Koloběžka první (1981)
Narrator (archive footage) (voice)
Herecké Vánoce
Herecké Vánoce (1970)
Jan Werich
Assignment K (1968)
Dr. Spiegler
Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy
Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy (1968)
Self
King and Women
King and Women (1967)
Jindřich VIII.
The 25th Hour (1967)
Sgt. Constantin
Pražská strašidla
Pražská strašidla (1966)
Narrator (voice)
Magnetické vlny léčí (1965)
léčitel Wohu
The Dear Departed
The Dear Departed (1964)
Dědeček
The Cry (1964)
Narrator (voice)
Uspořená libra (1963)
Sam Adams
Kočár nejsvětější svátosti (1963)
Tears the World Can't See (1963)
Fedor Akimič Rjebrotěsov
When the Cat Comes (1963)
Oliva
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)
kapitán holandské lodi
Italienisches Capriccio (1961)
Don Marzio
Medvěd (1961)
statkář Grigorij Stěpanovič Smirnov
Těžká Barbora
Těžká Barbora (1960)
Balada z hadrů (1960)
strážný Holofern
The Creation of the World (1958)
Narrator (voice)