Oldřich Nový

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-08-07 (84 years old)

Deathday

1983-03-15

Place of Birth

Praha

Oldřich Nový

Biography

Oldřich Nový was a Czech film and theatre actor, director, composer, dramaturge and singer. He is considered one of the greatest actors of the Czech cinema in the first half of the 20th century.  At the encouragement of his uncle, Miloš Nový, a well-known actor of the National Theatre in Prague, Oldřich joined amateur theatre group "Řemeslnická beseda" and appeared in numerous plays before moving to Brno to direct in 1918.   Following his fifteen year stay, Oldřich  co-founded the "Nové divadlo" (The New Theatre) together with his wife Alice Valentová-Nová.  There he explored new and modern expressions of theatre by combining spoken word wit...

Acting

1961

Bílá spona

as Horák

1966

The Phantom of Morrisville

as Sir Hannibal Morris

1939

Eva Fools Around

as Michal Nor

1969

Men About Town

as Profesor

1939

Kristian

as úředník Alois Novák alias pan Kristian

1980

V hlavní roli Oldřich Nový

as Oldřich Nový (voice)

1940

1944

Paklíc

as Gabriel Anděl

1941

The Blue Star Hotel

as Vladimír Rychta Rohan

1955

Hudba z Marsu

as Jiří Karas, skladatel

1945

Sobota

as Richard Herbert

1937

1942

Valentin Dobrotivý

as Valentin Plavec

1941

A Charming Man

as Viktor Bláha

1940

The Girl in Blue

as Jan Karas

1939

1961

Where an Alibi Is Not Everything

as Jindrich Kraus, director of the hotel

1937

Advokátka Věra

as Petr Kučera

1937

1947

Parohy

as Viktorin

1937

Falešná kočička

as MUDr. Vladimír Přelouč

1966

Alibi on the Lake

as fotograf Laufr

1940

Život je krásný

as Jan Herold

1940

Burian the Liar

as tajemník Arnošt Benda, manžel Karly

1959

Of Things Supernatural

as (segment "Tajemství písma")

1936

Uličnice

as hrabě Moretti

1937

Rozkošný příběh

as Jaroslav Nerad

1938

Třetí zvonění

as JUDr. Jan Hudec

1936

Na tý louce zelený

as Gustav Horowitz

1935

Rozpustilá noc

as Monokl Fredy

1957

Zlatý pavouk

as barman Charlie

1946

Abrakadabra

as Commentary (voice)

1963

Věštec

as účetní Čeněk Šlik

Production

1953

1953

1953

Slovo dělá ženu

as Screenplay

1977

Mam’zelle Nitouche

as Theatre Play

1943

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