Karel Lamač

Karel Lamač (January 27th, 1897, Prague - August 2nd, 1952, Hamburg) is an actor and Czech realizer .

It is also known under the names of Carl Lamac , or Charles Lamac .

Biography

Born in 1897 in Prague (then in Austria-Hungary), he prefers to direct himself towards the music and the theater that towards pharmacy like would have wished it his/her parents.

He makes his beginnings in the cinema during the First World War, by carrying out reports in Germany. It is in this country that he is noticed and begins his career from actor in 1918. Star of the dumb man, it is required for roles of seducer. He undertakes in parallel an activity of chief technical officer and writing of the scenarios.

He becomes the companion of the actress Anny Ondra, with whom he often divides the poster. In 1930, they found together the production company Ondra-Lamac-Film in Germany; their separation and the marriage of the actress with the boxer max Schmeling in 1933 does not start their professional collaboration; they continue to turn together and their company will produce to the war.

The arrival of the sound Cinéma will make evolve/move the career of Karel Lamac, which turns to the realization. With the come to power of the Nazism, he prefers to turn abroad, in the United States, in England and France or he carries out english language versions or Frenchwomen of his Czech films.

With the arrival of the Second world war, Lamac leaves the Czechoslovakia; it gains the Netherlands then the the United Kingdom.

After the war, it takes again its career of realizer in 1947 in France, then in Germany and in the United States. This episode of its career is rather short, because an heart attack carries it in 1952.

Selective catalog of films

Realizer

1952 the Robber of Baghdad ( Die Diebin von Baghdad )
1947 One night with Tabarin ( One Night At the Tabarin )
1947 the anger of the gods ( Anger off the Gods )
1944 It Happened One Sunday
1943 Against-espionage ( They Puts in the Dark )
1943 Schweik' S New Adventures
1939 De Spooktrein
1939 U pokladny stál
1938 Duchácek to zarídí ( Duchacek Will Fix It )
1938 Place of the Harmony
1937 Peter Im Schnee
1937 Der Hund von Baskerville
1936 the Postilion of Lonjumeau
1935 I love all the women
1935 Ich liebe ale Frauen
1934 Frasquita
1934 Nezlobte dedecka ( Don' T Make Grandpa Angry )
1934 So ein Theater!
1934 DER verhexte Scheinwerfer
1933 Orchesterprobe
1932 should be married?
1932 Lelícek ve sluzbách Sherlocka Holmese
1932 Baby
1932 Funebrák ( The Undertaker )
1932 Mamselle Nitouche
1931 To neznáte Hadimrsku ( Business in Distress )
1931 turnover K. Polní Marsálek ( Imperial and Royal Field Marshall )
1931 the bald person mouse
1931 Mister the marshal
1931 One has jeho will sestra ( Him and His Sister )
1931 One night with the paradise
1930 Of the falsche Feldmarschall
1930 the count Billy
1926 Dobrý voják Svejk ( The Good Soldier Svejk )
1924 white Paradis ( Bílý ráj )
1920 Gilly poprvé v Praze

Actor

1933 Professor Cupid , of Robert Beaudoin and André Chemel, the professor
1928 Páter Vojtech , of Martin Money, Vojtech
1926 Dobrý voják Svejk ( The Good Soldier Svejk ), of Carl Lamac, Palivec, the landlord/the lieutenant Lukás
1924 Helena , of Manfred Noa (`'Helen of Troy ), Patrocle

1924 white Paradise ( Bílý ráj ), of Carl Lamac, Ivan Holar

1919 Palimpsest , Joe Jencík

1918 Qualities vyhral los , of Richard Branald

Source

the famous Czechs and less famous, Radio operator Prague

Bond external

Karel Lamač on Internet Movie Database

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