Personal Info
Ян Верих
Jan Werich
Acting
Biography
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 10 years he worked in theatre Jiří Voskovec and Jaroslav Ježek. Their partnership was a platform for their numerous left-wing political satires, most notably in the Osvobozené divadlo (Liberated Theatre…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Cecílie
as voice
Jan Werich: Když už člověk jednou je…
as Self (archive footage)
Fimfarum - To the good of all
as (voice)
Fimfarum 2
as Narrator
Jan Werich's Fimfarum
as Vypravěč
When the Oak Leaves Fall
as Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
Mean Barbara
as Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
Pan Tau – der Film
as (archive footage)
Jonáš a Melicharová
as (archive footage)
Královna Koloběžka první
as Narrator (archive footage) (voice)
