Vladimír Šmeral

Vladimír Šmeral
File:Vladimír Šmeral (1903-1982).jpg Šmeral in 1947.
Born	(1903-10-16)October 16, 1903 Drásov near Tišnov, Austria-Hungary
Died	March 15, 1982(1982-03-15) (aged 78) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Nationality	Czech
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1926-1979

Vladimír Šmeral (16 October 1903 in – 15 March 1982) was a Czech actor.

Life

He started acting in Zemské divadlo in Brno. He moved to Prague and acted in Liberated Theatre, E. F. Burian's theatre and Divadlo na Poříčí. His wife was Jewish, but he refused to divorce her in order to protect her during the World War II. He had an affair with his theatre co-star Adina Mandlová, who became pregnant. In 1944 he was sent to a concentration camp in Wroclaw. Mandlová was sending him packages with food. In December 1944 she suffered a miscarriage. Šméral managed to escape from the camp and Mandlová help to hide him in a hospital. After the war he was active in many National Front organizations, as a member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. He became an actor in Vinohrady Theatre and taught at DAMU. He is buried at the Vyšehrad Cemetery.

Selected filmography

• Skeleton on Horseback (1937)
• The World Is Ours (1937)
• Jan Cimbura (1941)
• Mist on the Moors (1943)
• Rozina, the Love Child (1945)
• Čapek's Tales (1947)
• Silent Barricade (1949)
• Hotel for Strangers (1966)
• The End of Agent W4C (1967)
• The Most Beautiful Age (1968)
• Larks on a String (1970)
• Witchhammer (1970)
• Všichni proti všem (1977)

External links

• Vladimír Šmeral at IMDb
• Vladimír Šmeral in Czech National Theater Archive
• FDb.cz– Vladimír Šmeral (in Czech)