Born June 19, 1905· Sázava, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
† Died July 4, 1981
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Emerging from a Bohemian family in Sázava, he studied in Prague and later in Dijon before turning to the stage, where his partnership with Jan Werich began in the avant-garde Osvobozené divadlo of the late 1920s. Their troupe evolved into the Liberated Theatre, a hub for satirical clownery that grew increasingly anti-fascist until its closure after the Munich Agreement, prompting his escape to the…
