Acting
Ilja Prachař
Ilja Prachař ( April 30, 1924, Malenovice – August 10, 2005, Prague ) was a Czech actor and playwright.
He was born in Malenovice near Zlín as the middle of three sons of František Prachar (1899–2001), an official of the district health insurance company in Zlín, and his wife Ludmila (1901–1981). The elder brother Drahomír (1922–2008) later worked in a foreign trade company, the younger Kamil (1931–2020) became a theater actor and worked almost his entire professional career in the theater in Cheb . In Zlín and Malenovice, the parents actively engaged in associational life and performed volunteer theater. His wife Jana (*1937) is a puppeteer, his son David (*1959), grandson Jakub (*1983), granddaughter Mariana (*1994) and great-granddaughter Alžběta Malá (*1997) are acting.
He began his acting career as a member of the drama group of the Army Art Ensemble of Vít Nejedlý (1945–1947), in the Workers' Theater in Zlín (1947–1952) and in the theater in Ostrava (1952–1954). From 1954 he performed at the S. K. Neumann Theater in Prague and from 1959 to 1990 at the Vinohrady Theatre. His best-known film role is probably the greedy and miserly landowner Trautenberk in the evening series Krkonošské pohádyky.
He is the author of several plays and television scripts. Already in 1951, he received the State Prize for the play " Hádajú se o rozumné " and for his acting he was awarded the award for outstanding work (1967), the title of meritorious artist (1983) and the František Filipovský Award for lifetime mastery in dubbing (1997).
Ilja Prachař was a member of the Communist Party . In November 1989, he gave a speech at the Summer Speech as a representative of the actors from the Vinohrady Theatre .
In his personal life, Ilja Prachař was a big supporter of the football club Slavia . At the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, he was even the chairman of the civic association of the Friends of Slavia for seven years.
Filmography
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Thirty Cases of Major Zema
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda t...
Hříšní lidé města pražského
F. L. Věk
Černá země
Bejvávalo
Ve znamení Merkura
Zákony pohybu
Inženýrská odysea
Inženýrská odysea is a Czechoslovak/Czech TV series about three young students and their lives.
Okres na severu
Okres na severu is a Czechoslovak/Czech TV series filmed by Evžen Sokolovský in 1981.
The Cremator
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn in...
Nejmladší z rodu Hamrů
Zastretý farebný svet
Rozpaky kuchaře Svatopluka
Stopy zločinu
Chalupáři
Chalupáři is a Czechoslovak comedy TV series filmed in 1974 and 1975 by František Filip.
Tři cesty k domovu
České pohádky
Ubohý pan Kufalt
Slovácko sa nesúdí
Ctná paní Lucie
Alexandr Dumas starší
Krkonošská pohádka
The Apple Game
Sarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure out whether to g...
Dita Saxová
In 1947 Prague, Holocaust survivor Dita lives in a hostel for orphans, acting as a protective mentor to a youn...
Rodina Bláhova
Witchhammer
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imagi...
Sign of the Virgin
The military airfield crew are not allowed to leave the area because alert level two has been declared. All wal...
All My Good Countrymen
The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.
Přehlídce velím já!
A cunning plan to deprive an "illegal millionaire" of his ill-gotten wealth. But the catch is that someone else...
Strašidýlko Fanfulínek
Zámek pro Barborku
Twelve graduates of one year of DAMU decide to go to the regional theatre together. During the first season, th...
Dobré světlo
Viktor Průcha, a successful small-town architect, lives well but knows his comfort rests on compromises. When a...
A Man Who Rose in Price
Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. After one drunk...
Dogs and People
The first short story "Naked in the Thorns" tells the story of a man whose clothes were taken away by a dog dur...
A Girl Fit to Be Killed
The waitress Gita from the hotel "Bobí vrch" approaches her lover who has not left his wife yet and gives him a...