Biography
Karel Lamač, director, screenwriter, and actor, among various other professions, was born into the family of a pharmacist. He studied pharmacology but moved on to film technology and art. He shot newsreels on the front lines of World War I and with the British RAF during the Second World War. As a young man he was often cast as the lover, then he began writing scripts and directing.
A true European, he made features and documentaries in Germany, Austria, France, and Great Britain. In 1926 he had a film studio built in the Prague neighborhood of his birth, and in Berlin he and actor Anna Ondráková founded Ondra-Lamac-Film. Back in Bohemia he shot dramas and the first adaptation of Hašek's Švejk, as well as numerous comedies with the inimitable Vlasta Burian. After 1945 he lived in Paris, the USA, and Germany. An exacting work tempo and a less-than-exemplary lifestyle brought on illness and a premature death.
MFF Karlovy Vary
Director
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1934 |
Der verhexte Scheinwerfer |
So ein Theater! |
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1933 |
Orchesterprobe |
1920 |
Gilly in Prague for the First Time |
1919 |
Vzteklý ženich |
Actor
Documentaries | |
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2022 |
Životní styl první republiky (series) - a.f. |
Kino a divadlo - a.f. (E04) |
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2020 |
Osudové lásky (series) - a.f. |
Anny a Max - a.f. (E01) |
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2016 |
Doomed Beauty - a.f. |
1995 |
Muž s velkou klikou (TV movie) - a.f. |
1978 |
Magistři smíchu - a.f. |
1954 |
Jak se u nás kdysi filmovalo |
1926 |
Neděle československých filmových pracovníků |
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1930 |
Dáma z baru |
1922 |
Sněhová Růženka |
Sněhulka a sedm trpaslíků |
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1920 |
Gilly in Prague for the First Time |
1919 |
Vzteklý ženich |
Editor
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1932 |
The Ideal Schoolmaster |
1931 |
Him and His Sister |
Meet the Sister |
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1930 |
Imperial and Royal Field Marshal |
Screenwriter
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1943 |
Schweik's New Adventures |
1940 |
Narcisse |
1938 |
Watch Out for the Ghost |
1937 |
Peter im Schnee |
1936 |
Der schüchterne Casanova |
Flitterwochen |
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1934 |
Carnival of Love |
1933 |
The Good Tramp Bernášek |
The Twelve Chairs |
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1927 |
Květ ze Šumavy - screenplay, original screenplay |
1926 |
Velbloud uchem jehly |
1925 |
Hraběnka z Podskalí |
Karel Havlíček Borovský - screenplay, original screenplay |
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The Lantern |
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1924 |
Catch Him! - screenplay, original screenplay |
White Paradise |
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1922 |
The Lumberjack - screenplay, original screenplay |
1921 |
The Poisoned Light - screenplay, original screenplay |
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1920 |
Gilly in Prague for the First Time - original screenplay |
1919 |
Vzteklý ženich |
Producer
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1934 |
Der verhexte Scheinwerfer |
Ein gemütlicher Nachmittag |
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Im Schallplattenladen |
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So ein Theater! |
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1933 |
Orchesterprobe |
1932 |
Der Dienstmann |
Der angenehme Patient |
Performer
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1995 |
Úsměvy českého filmu |
1972 |
Jsem jen inženýr chemie aneb z českých barů - a.f. |
1964 |
FRI-FI-PI |
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