František Němec (born 9 August 1943) is a Czech actor, dubber, and theater pedagogue.
Education and career
Němec studied acting at
DAMU
The Department of Dramatic Theatre (, abbreviated DAMU) is one of three departments at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (alongside the Film and TV school and the Department of Music). The academy was opened in 1945 immediately after th ...
from 1960 to 1964
and has been teaching there since 1982. He went on to work at Městská divadla pražská, where he stayed until 1982.
That year, he received an offer from theatre director
Miroslav Macháček
Miroslav Macháček (May 8, 1922 – February 17, 1991) was a Czech theatre director and actor.
Life and career
Macháček was born in Nymburk. His father was a car painter and a custodian of (and sometimes actor and director in) the theater in ...
to take on the titular role in
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...
's ''
Hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (the ...
'' at the
National Theatre in Prague.
He remains a member of the National Theatre's drama company to this day.
In 1998, Němec won a
Thalia Award for Drama – Men. In 2021, he received the František Filipovský Award for long-term acting mastery in dubbing, and a year later, the Thalia Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Selected filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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1943 births
Living people
People from Sezimovo Ústí
Czech male film actors
Czech male stage actors
Czech male television actors
21st-century Czech male actors
Czech male voice actors
20th-century Czech male actors
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni
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