George Pravda

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George Pravda , actually Jiří Pravda (born June 19, 1918 in Prague , Bohemia , † May 1, 1985 in London ) was a Czech- British actor .

Life

Pravda began his acting career in Czechoslovakia , where shortly after the Second World War he appeared in Prague at the “Realistic Theater” and played in several films. At the theater he met the Czech actress Hana Pravda , originally Hana Beckova , a survivor of the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps , whom he married in 1946; the marriage resulted in a son. After Komunistická strana Československa came to power in Prague, Jiří and Hana Pravda managed to obtain false identity documents for themselves and their son. In 1948 they left Czechoslovakia together and initially went toParis , where both worked as actors. After they could not get a permanent residence permit in France, however , they emigrated to Australia in 1949 , where they founded their own English-language theater company Tana in Melbourne and thus went on tour throughout Australia .

In 1955, Jiří Pravda and Hana Pravda were "discovered" during one of their performances by the English theater actress Dame Sybil Thorndike , who was on tour in Australia. She recommended Pravda to her colleague Sir John Gielgud and the influential English theater producer Hugh "Binkie" Beaumont . In 1956 Jiří Pravda and Hana Pravda moved to Great Britain , where Pravda from then on appeared under the name George Pravda . Pravda subsequently played theater in London's West End ; at the Old Vic Theater he was a. a. seen at the side of Sir Laurence Olivier . At the Old Globe Theater in 1958 he starred opposite Margaret Leighton and Jeremy Brett in the drama Variation on a Theme by Terence Rattigan ; Directed by John Gielgud.

in the 1960s Pravda starred in a production of the Saturday Night Theater , a series of plays on the radio broadcast by BBC Radio 4 , with: in January 1960 in The Navy's Here by Kenneth Langmaid .

From the 1950s Pravda regularly took on film and television roles in British and sometimes international productions. He played u. a. In 1965 he played a supporting role in the British James Bond film Fireball . In it he embodied the Polish nuclear scientist Ladislav Kuly , who works for the criminal organization SPECTER and keeps the weapons ready for possible use. Later, however, he changes fronts, saves the female lead and defuses the weapons. In 1968 he took on the role of Soviet functionary Gorshenin in the high-profile film biography In the Fisherman's Shoes . In 1969 he starred in the horror film Frankenstein Must Die! the brilliant but dubious scientist Dr. Brandt , with whose help Frankenstein succeeded in transplanting human brains .

Pravda, who was fluent in six languages, died in the London borough of Fulham .

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hana Pravda The Guardian; July 18, 2008
  2. ↑ Hana Pravda The Times; July 15, 2008
  3. ↑ THEATER WORLD Magazines: 1950s ROB WILTON THEATRICALIA
  4. ↑ Saturday Night Theater 1960-1970 ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.ukonline.co.uk
  5. ↑ Thunderball James Bond Movies
  6. ↑ George Pravda (Ladislav Kuly) James Bond Multimedia
  7. ^ Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) Dictionary of Hammer Horror
  8. ↑ THE END OF THE HAMMER ERA  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Phantastic Worlds@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ingo-loechel.de.tl  
personal data
SURNAME Pravda, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pravda, Jiří (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-British actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1985
Place of death London