Notable Alumni of Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava [Sorted List]

1. Frico Kafenda

1883-1963 (aged 80)

pianist pedagogue composer

Frico Kafenda was a Slovak composer, and a musical pedagogue. His piano students included a famous composer Eugen Suchoň.

2. Jana Beňová

1974-. (aged 52)

writer prose writer poet journalist

Jana Beňová is a Slovakian poet and novelist. She studied at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava, graduating with a degree in dramaturgy in 1998. She wrote for a number of local publications, including Dotyky, Fragment and Slovenské Pohľady. She also worked for the daily newspaper SME under a pseudonym. At present, she works at the Theatre...

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3. Peter Dufka

1963-. (aged 63)

Catholic priest musicologist

ThDr. PaedDr. Mgr. art. Peter Dufka, SJ is Slovak Roman Catholic priest, Professor at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, Radio Vatican co-worker and Pro-Rector of Collegium Russicum (since 31 January 2017).

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4. Igor Ciel

1931-2010 (aged 79)

screenwriter film director actor university teacher

Igor Ciel was a Slovak film and theatre director, screenwriter, and actor.

5. Iveta Grófová

1980-. (aged 46)

producer screenwriter director

Iveta Grófová is a Slovak film director. She studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU). Her directorial debut was the 2012 film Made in Ash, which was nominated as Slovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Grófová's second film, Piata loď, was screened at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. It went on...

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6. Marko Škop

1974-. (aged 52)

screenwriter film director documentarian

Marko Škop is a Slovak film director.

7. Štefan Hoza

1906-1982 (aged 76)

opera singer writer pedagogue actor librettist

Štefan Hoza was a Slovak operatic tenor, actor, librettist, educator, music publicist, and historian.

8. Zuzana Piussi

1971-. (aged 55)

film editor actor costume designer cinematographer director

Zuzana Piussi is a Slovak director and documentary filmmaker, as well as an actress. She graduated from the Department of Directing at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. From 1992 to 2000, she worked with the theater Stoka. Subsequently, she was involved in the theater project SkRAT.

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9. Ľudovít Rajter

1906-2000 (aged 94)

composer conductor

Ľudovít Rajter was a Slovak composer and conductor, born in Austria-Hungary.

10. Eva Sakálová

1985-. (aged 41)

actor

Eva Sakálová is a Slovak stage and television actress. As well as parts in television series and films, she has performed in productions at the Slovak National Theater.

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11. Ladislav Slovák

1919-1999 (aged 80)

conductor

Ladislav Slovák was a Slovak conductor.

12. Attila Mokos

1964-. (aged 62)

television actor stage actor actor film actor

Attila Mokos is a Slovak actor who holds Hungarian nationality. He is a two-time winner of the Best Actor award at the Sun in a Net Awards, having won it in 2010 for his role in Soul at Peace, and again in 2014 for his role in the 2013 film Fine, Thanks (Ďakujem, dobře).

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13. Lucia Piussi

1971-. (aged 55)

singer actor

Lucia Piussi is a Slovak actress and rock singer. She has played Bratislava's Stoka Theatre often, and is the frontwoman of rock band Živé kvety. Piussi studied at the Academy of Performing Arts (VŠMU) in Bratislava.

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14. Mária Bartalos

1994-. (aged 32)

actor

Mária Bartalos is a Slovak former actress. During the 2010s she played many roles on Slovak television series, including Linda Mackova in Markíza comedy-drama Oteckovia. Bartalos has appeared in Slovak and Czech films such as the 2018 dance film Backstage, in which she had a leading role.

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15. Szilvia Varga

1966-. (aged 60)

actor

Silvia Vargová is a Slovak-Hungarian actress who mainly works in theatre. She has also done voice acting and appeared in films and on television.

16. Dagmar Bruckmayerová

1969-. (aged 57)

actor

Dagmar Bruckmayerová is a Slovak actress. She was born in Bratislava. She is of partially Hungarian origin on her father's side.

17. Alexandra Salmela

1980-. (aged 46)

writer

Alexandra Salmela is a Slovak author, best known for her Finnish novel 27 eli kuolema tekee taiteilijan (2010), for which she won a Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize, and was nominated for a Finlandia Prize. In 2013, Salmela published the storybook Giraffe Mum and Other Silly Adults. The book was also published simultaneously in Slovakia. It was nominated for the Arvid...

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18. Katarína Brychtová

1967-. (aged 59)

actor

Katarína Brychtová née Šebestová is a Slovak actress and television presenter.

19. Petra Polnišová

1976-. (aged 50)

writer actor

Petra Brocková is a Slovak actress and stand-up comedian.

20. Miroslav Dvorský

1960-. (aged 66)

opera singer

Miroslav Dvorský is a Slovak operatic tenor of international renown who has had an active career since the early 1980s.

21. Ida Rapaičová

1943-. (aged 83)

actor politician

Ida Rapaičová is a Slovak actress and former politician. She graduated in acting from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in 1967. Since graduation, she has been an actress of the New Scene theatre. In addition to theatre acting, she starred in many popular Slovak movies and hosted a variety of radio shows. In 1994-1998 she served as a...

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22. Deana Horváthová

1958-. (aged 68)

film producer actor screenwriter

Deana Jakubisková is a Slovak film producer and a former stage and film actress.

23. Milka Zimková

1951-2023 (aged 72)

screenwriter director writer playwright actor

Emília "Milka" Zimková was a Slovak actress and screenwriter. She wrote the script and acted in one of the biggest Slovak comedy blockbusters, She Grazed Horses on Concrete.

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24. Marek Maďarič

1966-. (aged 60)

screenwriter politician dramaturge

Marek Maďarič is a Slovak politician for the Direction - Social Democracy (Slovak: Smer-SD). He was between 4 April 2012 and 28 February 2018 Minister of Culture in Robert Fico's Second and Third Cabinets. Maďarič resigned as minister in the aftermath of the assassination of Ján Kuciak.

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25. Elena Podzámska

1972-. (aged 54)

actor

Elena Podzámska is a Slovak actress and dubbing actress born in Bratislava.

26. Danica Jurčová

1976-. (aged 50)

actor

Danica Jurčová is a Slovak-Czech actress.

27. Peter Bebjak

1970-. (aged 56)

screenwriter film director television actor film producer actor

Peter Bebjak is a Slovak actor, director, producer and writer. In 2001, and along with Rastislav Šesták, he established DNA Production company.

28. Roman Luknár

1965-. (aged 61)

actor

Roman Luknár is a Slovak actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1988.

29. Ján Cikker

1911-1989 (aged 78)

composer pedagogue

Ján Cikker was a Slovak composer, a leading exponent of modern Slovak classical music. He was awarded the title National Artist in Slovakia, the Herder Prize (1966) and the IMC-UNESCO International Music Prize (1979).

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30. Alexander Moyzes

1906-1984 (aged 78)

composer university teacher

Alexander Moyzes was a Slovak neoromantic composer.

31. Kamil Mikulčík

1977-. (aged 49)

singer actor

Kamil Mikulčík is a Slovak singer and actor who represented Slovakia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with Nela Pocisková. They failed to reach the final.

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32. Jana Oľhová

1959-. (aged 67)

actor

Jana Oľhová is a Slovak actress. At the 2008 Sun in a Net Awards she won the category of Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film Music. Oľhová won another accolade at the Sun in a Net Awards, again for Best Supporting Actress, in 2014 for her performance in the 2013 film Fine, Thanks (Ďakujem, dobře).

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33. Petra Vajdová

1985-. (aged 41)

actor

Petra Vajdová is a Slovak actress. At the 2016 DOSKY Awards she won in the category of Best Actress, for her performances in the play Fanny a Alexander at the Slovak National Theater. In 2017 Vajdová took part in the Markíza series Let's Dance, but withdrew in October after sustaining an injury to her leg.

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34. Adriana Kučerová

1976-. (aged 50)

opera singer musician

Adriana Kučerová is a Slovak operatic soprano.

35. Marián Miezga

1974-. (aged 52)

actor

Marián Miezga is a Slovak actor. He was recognised at the 1998 DOSKY Awards as Discovery of the Year as part of the performance of Na koho to slovo padne. Although mainly known for his television roles on Slovak TV channels RTVS and TV JOJ, he joined the cast of Markíza's Oteckovia in 2018 as Juraj Šípka.

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36. Gabriela Dzuríková

1973-. (aged 53)

dub actor actor

Gabriela Dzuríková is a Slovak actress.

37. Silvia Šuvadová

1973-. (aged 53)

actor

Silvia Šuvadová is a Slovak actress. She is one of a small number of Slovaks to have played a part in a Hollywood movie, having appeared in the 2006 film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. As well as appearing in the Oscar-winning 1996 film Kolya, she has also taken part in a number of reality television shows.

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38. Dušan Cinkota

1970-. (aged 56)

actor

Dušan Cinkota is a Slovak theatre and film actor.

39. Juraj Nvota

1954-. (aged 72)

actor screenwriter film director

Juraj Nvota is a Slovak actor and film director.

40. Zuzana Vačková

1969-. (aged 57)

actor

Zuzana Vačková is a Slovak actress best known for her role in the television series Panelák.

41. Sisa Sklovská

1965-. (aged 61)

opera singer

Sisa Sklovská is a Slovak singer. She studied at Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU) and subsequently joined the Slovak National Theatre, where she performed for five years as a soloist. Sklovská was among the judges for the X Factor (Czech and Slovak series). Slovak president Ivan Gašparovič attended her wedding to Juraj Lelkes in January 2011.

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42. Dominika Kavaschová

1989-. (aged 37)

actor

Dominika Kavaschová is a Slovak actress. At the 2013 DOSKY Awards she was awarded the Discovery of the Year title. At the DOSKY Awards in 2015, she won in the category of Best Actress, for her performances in the play Mojmír II. alebo Súmrak ríše, directed by Rastislav Ballek. Kavaschová has German ancestry.

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43. Viktória Ráková

1981-. (aged 45)

actor

Viktória Ráková Lakatos is a Slovak television and theatre actress. She is best known for starring in the TV Shows Panelák and Susedia.

44. Dano Heriban

1980-2023 (aged 43)

composer lyricist actor musician

Daniel Heriban was a Slovak actor and musician who was known as one of the most universal actors in Slovakia, capable of excelling both in comedic and tragic roles.

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45. Ľuboš Kostelný

1981-. (aged 45)

actor television actor

Ľuboš Kostelný is a Slovak stage, television and film actor.

46. Karin Haydu

1977-. (aged 49)

actor

Karin Haydu is a Slovak actress.

47. Lukáš Latinák

1977-. (aged 49)

actor television actor

Lukáš Latinák is a Slovak film, television, and stage actor. He is a recipient of three OTO Awards in the main categories. Latinák is a VŠMU alumnus. On stage, he is best known for his spells with Astorka Korzo '90 Theatre.

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48. Marián Geišberg

1953-2018 (aged 65)

singer television actor writer actor musician

Marián Geišberg was a Slovak actor. Geišberg was recognised in 2001 for his stage acting in the Jozef Kroner Awards. Geišberg won the Best Supporting Actor award at the Sun in a Net Awards in 2019 for his role in Čertí brko. His son is Slovak actor Marek Geišberg.

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49. Sahraa Karimi

1983-. (aged 43)

film director

Sahraa Karimi is an Afghan film director who was the first female chairperson of the Afghan Film Organization (also known as Afghan Film). She has directed 30 short films, 3 documentary films and one fiction film Hava, Maryam, Ayesha which had its world premier at the 76th Venice Film Festival. Prior to the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, she...

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50. Judit Bárdos

1988-. (aged 38)

actor

Judit Bárdos, married Pecháček is a Slovakian actress of Hungarian ethnicity. She is the daughter of politician Gyula Bárdos and journalist Ágnes Bárdos. Bárdos won the Best Actress Award at the 2012 The Sun in a Net Awards for her performance in the 2011 film The House. In 2018, she won Best Supporting Actress Award at The Sun in a...

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51. Gabriela Beňačková

1947-. (aged 79)

opera singer

Gabriela Beňačková also Gabriela Beňačková-Čápová is a Slovak lyric soprano.

52. Katarzia

1989-. (aged 37)

singer-songwriter singer

Katarzia is a Slovak artist, singer-songwriter and producer. Her song "Kde sa slzy berú" was named best single of 2017 at the Radio Head Awards. Her songwriting has also been recognised; alongside Jonatán Pastirčák she composed music and lyrics for the Slovak National Theatre's adaption of the Sophocles play Antigone. It was recognised as Best Incidental Music at the 2018...

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53. Martin Huba

1943-. (aged 83)

theatrical director film actor university teacher stage actor actor

Martin Huba is a Slovak actor and director on stage and in film.

54. Zuzana Kanócz

1979-. (aged 47)

film actor television actor stage actor

Zuzana Kanócz, also known as Zuzana Kanóczová is a Slovak actress.

55. Szidi Tobias

1967-. (aged 59)

singer actor

Szidi Tobias is a Slovak actress and musician of Hungarian ethnicity. While in her native country she successfully developed an acting career, in the Czech Republic Tobias established herself as a singer of urban chanson.

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56. Zuzana Mauréry

1968-. (aged 58)

actor singer

Zuzana Mauréry is a Slovak actress working in film, television, and on stage, as well as a musical singer. A six-time nominee for national movie awards and a two-time winner of the Sun in a Net Awards, she lives in her hometown of Bratislava. She is also a member of the Slovak movie and television academy.

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57. B-Complex

1984-. (aged 42)

composer

Matia Lenická, also known by the stage name B-Complex, is a drum and bass producer and DJ from Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2015, she came out as bi-gender.

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58. Božidara Turzonovová

1943-. (aged 83)

actor pedagogue

Božidara Turzonovová, is a Slovak film and stage actress of Bulgarian origin, often referred to as The First Lady of Slovak Theater and Film.

59. Tomáš Maštalír

1977-. (aged 49)

actor

Tomáš Maštalír is a Slovak actor.

60. Janko Kroner

1956-. (aged 70)

actor television actor

Janko Kroner is a Slovak film, television and stage actor. Once a regular cast of the Slovak National Theater (SND) (1987–2009), Kroner began his acting career as part of the New Scene (1982–86). In the mid 1990s, alongside staging for his home theater, he gradually began appearing in a local VA-based ensemble called a.ha. In the most recent decade, he...

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61. Jaroslav Filip

1949-2000 (aged 51)

dramaturge writer composer actor musician

Jaroslav Filip, known as Jaro Filip, was a Slovak musician, composer, humorist, dramaturge, actor, columnist, and early promoter of the internet in Slovakia. His work includes numerous pop hits in cooperation with the singer Richard Müller, including "Cigaretka na dva ťahy", "Milovanie v daždi", and "Daňový únik".

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62. Dežo Ursiny

1947-1995 (aged 48)

singer guitarist director composer musician

Dezider Ursiny, better known as Dežo Ursiny was a Slovak musician, composer, and filmmaker. In the 1960s, he was a member of the Beatmen and the Soulmen, two bands who pioneered an Eastern European style of music called big beat, which combined rock and roll, jazz, and twist when those styles were banned in the Eastern Bloc. He subsequently launched...

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63. Kamila Magálová

1950-. (aged 76)

actor

Kamila Magálová is a Slovak film and stage actress, singer, and entrepreneur. She is a triple nominee for the TV-based OTO Awards. In addition to the performing arts, Magálová runs a hotel named after her in Čierna Voda.

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64. Andrej Hryc

1949-2021 (aged 72)

film producer entrepreneur diplomat actor

Andrej Hryc was a Slovak actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1976.

65. Vašo Patejdl

1954-2023 (aged 69)

musician composer record producer guitarist lyricist

Vašo Patejdl was a Slovak musician and composer. He was best known for being a co-founder and long-term member of the pop-rock band Elán. He wrote songs for other musicians, including the Richard Müller single "Po schodoch", and he composed music for films, such as Fontána pre Zuzanu (1985) and The Seven Ravens (2015). Patejdl also released a number of...

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66. Marián Labuda

1944-2018 (aged 74)

television actor stage actor actor film actor

Marián Labuda was a Slovak actor.

67. Diana Mórová

1970-. (aged 56)

actor

Diana Mórová is a Slovak film and stage actress. Among other, she is the holder of two OTO Awards.

68. Zuzana Kronerová

1952-. (aged 74)

actor

Zuzana Kronerová is a Slovak film, television and stage actress. She has been featured in more than twenty films to date.

69. Gabriela Marcinková

1988-. (aged 38)

actor

Gabriela Mihalčínová Marcinková is a Slovak theatre, film and television actress.

70. Emília Vášáryová

1942-. (aged 84)

actor

Emília Vášáryová, Doctor Artis Dramaticae is a Slovak stage and screen actress, whom Variety and other publications refer to as the "First Lady of Slovak Theater". During a career of more than five decades, she has received numerous awards including Meritorious Artist (1978), the Alfréd Radok Award (1996), the Czech Lion Award, the Golden Goblet Award (2008), and a 2010...

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71. Michal Dočolomanský

1942-2008 (aged 66)

actor film actor

Michal Dočolomanský was a Slovak actor and singer. He appeared in more than forty films between 1962 and 2007.

72. Július Satinský

1941-2002 (aged 61)

playwright television presenter actor humorist film actor

Július Satinský was a Slovak actor, comedian, singer, showman and writer. He is mostly remembered in Slovakia as a member of the legendary comedian duo Milan Lasica - Július Satinský, however his scope of interest was wide. He died on 29 December 2002 due to colon cancer.

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73. Milan Kňažko

1945-. (aged 81)

actor politician

Milan Kňažko is a Slovak actor and politician. He was one of the leading personalities of the Public against Violence movement in November 1989 and one of the most popular faces of the Velvet Revolution in Slovakia.

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74. Vica Kerekes

1981-. (aged 45)

actor

Éva "Vica" Kerekes is a Slovak actress of Hungarian ethnicity. She is active in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. She is often referred to and credited as Vica Kerekésová, Vica Kerekešová, and Kerekes Vica. She adopted the nickname "Vica" to distinguish herself from the Hungarian actress Éva Kerekes.

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75. Edita Gruberová

1946-2021 (aged 75)

opera singer music educator

Edita Gruberová was a Slovak coloratura soprano. She made her stage debut in Bratislava in 1968 as Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, and successfully auditioned at the Vienna State Opera the following year, which became her base. She received international recognition for roles such as Mozart's Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf...

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76. Lucia Popp

1939-1993 (aged 54)

opera singer

Lucia Popp was a Slovak operatic soprano. She began her career as a soubrette, and later moved into the light-lyric and lyric coloratura soprano repertoire and then the lighter Richard Strauss and Wagner operas. Her career included performances at Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, and La Scala. Popp was also a highly regarded recitalist and lieder singer.

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77. Magdalena Kožená

1973-. (aged 53)

opera singer concert singer

Magdalena Kožená, Lady Rattle is a Czech mezzo-soprano.

78. Milan Lasica

1940-2021 (aged 81)

director film actor lyricist film director television presenter

Milan Lasica was a popular Slovak comedian, actor, singer, writer, lyricist and satirist.

79. Zdena Studenková

1954-. (aged 72)

singer actor writer

Zdena Studenková is a Slovak film and stage actress, and a musical theater singer. She is the holder of the most number of OTO Awards, having won eight times in total.

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80. Tatiana Pauhofová

1983-. (aged 43)

actor

Tatiana Pauhofová is a Slovak actress born in Bratislava.

81. Richard Müller

1961-. (aged 65)

composer singer

Richard Müller is a Slovak singer, songwriter, photographer, and occasional actor. He is one of the most successful singers in both Czechia and Slovakia, where he has sold more than one million records. At the beginning of his musical career, he was a member of Pavel Daněk's band Burčiak and later formed his own group, Banket, with whom he recorded...

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82. Juraj Kukura

1947-. (aged 79)

actor singer

Juraj Kukura is a Slovak actor.

83. Barbora Bobulová

1974-. (aged 52)

actor

Barbora Bobuľová is a Slovak-born Italian actress. She has lived and worked mainly in Italy since 1995.

84. Josef Abrhám

1939-2022 (aged 83)

television actor stage actor actor film actor

Josef Abrhám was a Czech film and theatre actor.