František Zvarík (; 17 July 1921 – 17 August 2008) was an accomplished theater actor (over 50 years in
Slovak National Theatre
The Slovak National Theater ( sk, Slovenské národné divadlo, abbr. SND) is the oldest professional theatre in Slovakia, consisting of three ensembles: opera, ballet, and drama. Its history begins shortly after the establishment of the first ...
) and movie
character actor. He has appeared in about two dozen
Slovak films since the 1940s. Among his accomplishments is the key supporting role of the town commander Markuš Kolkotský in ''
The Shop on Main Street
''The Shop on Main Street'' ( Czech/ Slovak: ''Obchod na korze''; in the UK ''The Shop on the High Street'') is a 1965 Czechoslovakian film about the Aryanization program during World War II in the Slovak State.
The film was written by Ladislav G ...
'', a film which won the 1965
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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1921 births
2008 deaths
People from Vrútky
Slovak film actors
Slovak male stage actors
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