Jiří Trnka
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1912-02-24 (57 years old)
Deathday
1969-12-30
Place of Birth
Plzeň, Rakousko-Uhersko
Also known As
Jiří Trnka
Jiří Trnka
Biography
A graduate of Prague's School of Arts and Crafts, in 1936 he created a puppet theater, which was disbanded after the outbreak of WWII. During the war he designed stage sets and illustrated children's books. In 1945 he set up an animation unit with several collaborators at the Prague film studio; they called the unit "Trick Brothers." Trnka specialized in puppet animation, a traditional Czech art form, of which he became the undisputed master. He also created animated cartoons, but it was his puppet animation that made him an internationally recognized artist and the winner of film festival awards at Venice and elsewhere. He wrote the scripts ...
Acting
Production
1949
as Art Designer
1949
as Art Designer
1961
as Art Designer
1959
as Director
1962
as Art Direction
1951
as Art Designer
1951
as Art Designer
1951
as Story
1951
as Screenplay
1953
as Art Designer
1955
as Art Designer
1954
as Art Designer
1955
as Director
1954
as Art Designer
1954
as Art Designer
1955
as Art Designer
1955
as Art Designer
1963
as Director
1964
as Art Designer
1956
1956
1956
as Art Designer
1955
1955
1955
as Art Designer
1954
1954
1954
as Art Designer
1949
as Director
1949
as Director
1965
as Director
1949
as Director
1955
as Director
1956
as Art Designer
1949
as Director
1965
as Director
1946
as Director
1961
as Director
1949
as Art Designer
1946
as Director
1947
as Director
1953
as Director
1951
as Director
1951
as Director
1956
as Director
1959
as Art Designer
1947
as Director
1959
as Art Designer
1959
as Art Designer
1952
as Costume Design
1960
as Art Designer
1976
as Book
1977
as Book
1966
as Art Direction
1947
as Director
1951
as Director
1954
as Director
1954
as Director
1959
as Director
1959
as Screenplay
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as Writer
1951
as Graphic Designer
1956
as Writer
1953
as Screenplay
1953
as Story
1951
as Screenplay
1949
as Screenplay
1949
as Story
1949
as Art Direction
1965
as Story
1965
as Screenplay
1965
as Art Direction
1959
as Screenplay
1961
as Story
1961
as Screenplay
1947
as Story
1947
as Screenplay
1947
as Screenplay
1946
as Screenplay
1947
as Story
1947
as Screenplay
1947
as Art Direction
1947
as Editor
1946
as Story
1946
as Screenplay
1946
as Art Direction
1947
as Story
1947
as Screenplay
1965
1965
as Screenplay
1965
as Art Direction
1949
as Screenplay
1951
as Art Direction
1955
as Screenplay
1955
as Art Designer
1949
as Screenplay
1949
as Editor
1949
as Story
1949
as Screenplay
1955
as Story
1955
as Screenplay
1954
as Screenplay
1954
as Screenplay
1963
as Screenplay
1963
as Art Direction
1951
as Screenplay
1957
as Art Designer
1959
as Idea
1957
as Costume Design
1955
as Costume Design
1956
as Costume Design
1947
as Art Designer
1946
as Art Designer
1947
as Art Designer
1946
as Supervising Art Director
1947
as Supervising Art Director
1947
as Supervising Art Director
1947
as Art Designer
1947
as Art Designer
1947
as Supervising Art Director
1947
as Art Designer
-
as Producer
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