Jaroslav Čejka (22 July 1936 – 11 October 2022) was a Czech dancer,

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, comedian and actor.

Life and career

Born in

Ostrava Ostrava (; ; ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 283,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rivers: Oder, Opava (river), Opa ...

, Čejka began his career as a dancer at 17 years old, and starting from the 1960s he was a member of the National Theatre Ballet. He later became popular thanks to television, performing as a mime in comical sketches; his best known performance was the imitation of the hen, that he performed for the first time in a 1977 New Year's Eve TV special. He was also active as a comedy film actor, starring in about two dozen films. In 2007 Čejka received a Thalia Award for his career. In his later years he lived in a retirement home. Affected by

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and

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s, he died on 11 October 2022, at the age of 86.

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