Miloš Forman

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1932-02-18 (86 years old)

Deathday

2018-04-13

Place of Birth

Čáslav, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Miloš Forman

Biography

Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (/ˈmiːloʊʃ/; Czech: [ˈmɪloʃ ˈforman]; February 18, 1932 – April 13, 2018) was a Czech and American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968. Forman was an important figure in the Czechoslovak New Wave. Film scholars and Czechoslovak authorities saw his 1967 film The Firemen's Ball as a biting satire on Eastern European Communism. The film was initially shown in theatres in his home country in the more reformist atmosphere of the Prague Spring. However, it was later banned by the Communist government after the invasio...

Acting

2000

Keeping the Faith

as Father Havel

1986

Heartburn

as Dimitri

2009

2011

Beloved

as Jaromil

1973

Visions of Eight

as Narrator

1990

1991

Why Havel?

as voice

2002

The Making of 'Amadeus'

as Self - Director

2010

Shapes of Rhythm: The Music of Galt MacDermot

as Self - Interviewee: Director

2003

A Room Nearby

as Self (voice)

2010

2014

Olga

as Self

1982

Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

as Reader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)

2019

Forman vs. Forman

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

1985

The Statue of Liberty

as Self - Film Director

1995

Drawn from Memory

as Self (voice)

Production

1984

Amadeus

as Director

1999

Man on the Moon

as Director

1979

Hair

as Director

2006

Goya's Ghosts

as Director

2006

Goya's Ghosts

as Screenplay

1966

A Well Paid Walk

as Director

1981

Ragtime

as Director

1964

Black Peter

as Screenplay

1962

Tam za lesem

as First Assistant Director

1964

Audition

as Story

1964

Audition

as Screenplay

1989

Valmont

as Director

1967

1965

1964

Black Peter

as Director

1964

Audition

as Director

1973

Visions of Eight

as Director

1965

Loves of a Blonde

as Screenplay

1965

1971

Taking Off

as Director

1966

A Well Paid Walk

as Screenplay

1967

The Firemen's Ball

as Screenplay

1957

Vintage Car

as Assistant Director

1958

Puppies

as Story

2000

Way Past Cool

as Executive Producer

1971

1971

2005

1960

1960

1969

The Nail Clippers

as Screenplay

2009

1958

Puppies

as Screenplay

1958

Puppies

as First Assistant Director

1971

Taking Off

as Writer

1964

Black Peter

as Story

1955

Nechte to na mně

as Screenplay

1991

Victor

as Production Assistant

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