Jaroslav Marvan

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Jaroslav Marvan (11.12.1901-21.05.1974) was a Czechoslovak actor .

He was born in Prague .He was married since the 1920's with Marie Marvanová and had a daughter (Alena Marvanová) with Alena Jančaříková .

He passed his school-leaving exam in 1919 and became a member of the Central Office of posts. He sent to Uzghorod on bussiness maters (1920-1923) .

He was a member of Vlasta Burian's theatre 1926 – 1943 ,then of the Vinohradské Divadlo (1943-1950) and then of the Městská Divadla Pražská (1950-1954) ,from where he became a member of the Národní Divadlo (national theatre) ,where he served for until two years before his death,in 1972 .

His first roles in the silent film era include partaking in the following films:

  • DOBRÝ VOJÁK ŠVEJK
  • FALEŠNÁ KOČIČKA
  • PANTÁTA BEZOUŠEK
  • LÁSKY KAČENKY STRNADOVÉ
  • ŠVEJK V RUSKÉM ZAJETÍ
  • PÁTER VOJTĚCH
  • MODRÝ DÉMANT
  • SVATÝ VÁCLAV
  • PLUKOVNÍK ŠVEC

Afterwards,in the speaking movie era,he worked exclusively with Burian,in the following films:

  • TO NEZNÁTE HADIMRŠKU
  • FUNEBRÁK
  • ANTON ŠPELEC, OSTROSTŘELEC
  • POBOČNÍK JEHO VÝSOSTI
  • REVIZOR
  • HRDINNÝ KAPITÁN KORKORÁN
  • NEZLOBTE DĚDEČKA
  • HRDINA JEDNÉ NOCI
  • U POKLADNY STÁL…
  • ULICE ZPÍVÁ
  • KATAKOMBY
  • BARON PRÁŠIL
  • Přednosta stanice
  • PROVDÁM SVOU ŽENU
  • RYBA NA SUCHU
  • ZLATÉ DNO

His most famous roles withour Burian are roles of profesors in the movies CESTA DO HLUBIN ŠTUDÁKOVY DUŠE (1939) and ŠKOLA, ZÁKLAD ŽIVOTA (1938) and the role of train inspector Anděl in the movies Anděl na dovolené (1952) , Anděl na horách (1955) ,(though both movies include heavy pro comunist propaganda,like showing the ideal union of workers at a workers summer resort,where they all rather work together on a kinder garten building then vacation) .

He died in 1974 in Prague,with his three books of memorials being published posthumunously.Theese include:

  • „Nejen osobě“ ("About not only my/himself") (1975), „Jaroslav Marvan vypravuje“ ("Jaroslav Marvan relates") (1975) a „Herecké eso“ ("Ace Actor") (1995).

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