Jan Tříska

Jan Tříska

1936-11-04 Praha, Československo 126 Credits

Biography

Jan Triska or Jan Tříska (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈtr̝̊iːska]; 4 November 1936) is a Czech actor, most notable for portraying Captain Henry Wirz in the American television film Andersonville.

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Barefoot

Barefoot

2017

as Eda's grandfather

5.5
Acting

Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He need...

Klec

2015

as Jan Svozil

Acting

A successful scientist dares to openly and forcefully criticize the unproductive activities of the institute in which he works. He draws attention to ...

Piknik

2014

4.0
Acting

A weekend trip for nine friends to places where they once spent many years of their lives. A contemporary TV movie with a star-studded cast. Nine frie...

Bastardi III

Bastardi III

2012

as Václav Mádr

3.9
Acting

Teacher Tomáš Majer, who joined a former special school in 2010, has disappeared. He arrived at the school several months after his sister Jana, also ...

Edgemen

Edgemen

2011

as Bishop

3.9
Acting

A businessman unspools a web of espionage and corruption when his bid for a major construction project attracts the attention of an underground networ...

Setkání v Praze, s vraždou

2009

as Šmíd

Acting

After many years, Anka Lomnická, a former countess and emigrant, arrives in Prague. By chance, she finds herself seated next to two characters from a ...

May

May

2008

as kat

4.6
Acting

After success of Kytice, which is based on the famous collection of poems of K.J.Erben, one of the most well-known character of classic Czech literatu...

Lunacy

Lunacy

2005

as Marquis

6.9
Acting

A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they se...

Up and Down

Up and Down

2004

as Professor Otakar Horecký

6.8
Acting

Milan and Goran are two criminals who smuggle illegal immigrants. One night after they complete a smuggle, they discover that one of the immigrants ha...

One Hand Can't Clap

One Hand Can't Clap

2003

as Standas father

6.4
Acting

When Standa is released from jail, he feels a brighter future is about to take hold. Instead, his bad luck grows, thanks to a new acquaintance.

Zelary

Zelary

2003

as Old Gorcík

7.1
Acting

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a...

King Lear

King Lear

2003

as Lear, král Británie

8.5
Acting

A recording of the production from the courtyard of the Supreme Purkrab of Prague Castle starring Jan Tříská. Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear is a tim...

Blizzard

Blizzard

2003

as Otto Brewer / Trainer

5.8
Acting

A young girl's aunt tells her the tale of a young ice skater and an enchanted reindeer.

Bůh ví…

2002

as Vincent

Acting

About one faulty circuit breaker and about a man who only found out after death that he had not lived well. František Souček is an electrician who is ...

Cahoots

Cahoots

2001

as Laphonse

4.0
Acting

Two men who were "best friends" while growing up together and into their 20's, reconnect after years apart. On the surface, their lives have gone in o...

Lost Souls

Lost Souls

2000

as Melvin Szabo

5.0
Acting

A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected...

The Omega Code

The Omega Code

1999

as Prophet #1

4.6
Acting

An ancient prophecy is about to be fulfilled as a secret code brings the world to the edge of apocalypse.

Apt Pupil

Apt Pupil

1998

as Isaac Weiskopf

6.5
Acting

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles t...

Ronin

Ronin

1998

as Dapper Gent

7.0
Acting

A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembl...

The People vs. Larry Flynt

The People vs. Larry Flynt

1996

as The Assassin

7.0
Acting

Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living p...

Andersonville

Andersonville

1996

as Cap. Henry Wirz

6.6
Acting

This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes o...

A znovu Žebrácká opera

1996

as Self

Acting

Two different productions of Václav Havel's Beggar's Opera reveal the political dynamics of Czechoslovakia before and after the velvet revolution.

Drawn from Memory

Drawn from Memory

1995

as Jan Fierlinger (voice)

Acting

Fierlinger concentrates his considerable talents as an animator to recount through fragmented memories, vivid recollections, and the occasional evocat...

My Antonia

My Antonia

1995

as Mr. Shimerda

7.3
Acting

After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.

Řád

1994

as kněz

8.0
Acting

Set in 1776, this historical film by Petr Hvizd concerns an army deserter who takes refuge within the walls of the Convent of St. Claire. The investig...

Because Mommy Works

Because Mommy Works

1994

as Dr. Arthur Jamidar

5.0
Acting

Since her divorce nurse Abbey lives alone with her 6 years old son Willie. Her ex-husband Ted may have Willie every second weekend. But when Ted marri...

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

1993

as White Agent

5.7
Acting

A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

Undercover Blues

Undercover Blues

1993

as Axel

6.0
Acting

When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decid...

The Elementary School

The Elementary School

1991

as Igor Hnízdo

7.3
Acting

The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined ...

Loose Cannons

Loose Cannons

1990

as Steckler

4.9
Acting

Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The ne...

Podivné přátelství herce Jesenia

1990

Acting

Vyloženě rodinná historie

1990

Acting

The story of an ordinary family, which leaves no doubt that it is moving from the private sphere to the social landscape, to the absurdities of an era...

The Karate Kid Part III

The Karate Kid Part III

1989

as Milos

5.9
Acting

Despondent over the closing of his karate school, Cobra Kai teacher John Kreese joins a ruthless businessman and martial artist to get revenge on Dani...

Black Eagle

Black Eagle

1988

as Capt. Valery

4.9
Acting

One of the US Air Force's most modern tactical aircrafts, an F-100 with a new laser guidance system, crashes into the sea near Malta - a region where ...

The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory

The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory

1987

as General Wolf

6.2
Acting

Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mex...

Malice in Wonderland

Malice in Wonderland

1985

as Mike Romanoff

7.1
Acting

Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Pa...

2010

2010

1984

as Alexander Kovalev

6.6
Acting

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvou...

Nothing Lasts Forever

Nothing Lasts Forever

1984

as Swedish Architect

6.3
Acting

An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, who ta...

Unfaithfully Yours

Unfaithfully Yours

1984

as Jerzy Czyrek

5.5
Acting

A composer—who suspects his wife of cheating—plots to kill her and frame it on her lover, but things don't turn out as planned.

The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins

The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins

1984

as Deputy Markov

4.8
Acting

Gary Coleman plays the son of a U.S. diplomat who imagines himself in fantastic situations.

Uncommon Valor

Uncommon Valor

1983

as Gericault

6.2
Acting

A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.

The Osterman Weekend

The Osterman Weekend

1983

as Andrei Mikalovich

5.7
Acting

The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy...

The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair

The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair

1983

as Vaselievitch

5.8
Acting

When THRUSH steals a nuclear weapon and demands a ransom delivered by Napoleon Solo, UNCLE recalls him and his partner to duty.

Reds

Reds

1981

as Karl Radek

6.9
Acting

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical co...

The Amateur

The Amateur

1981

as Rodzenko

5.4
Acting

A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discove...

Ragtime

Ragtime

1981

as Special Reporter

7.0
Acting

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nos...

Flying Saucers Over Our Village

Flying Saucers Over Our Village

1977

4.5
Acting

A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

The Crazy Smell of Fresh Hay

The Crazy Smell of Fresh Hay

1977

as Romeo Aventuro

4.8
Acting

Signs and wonders are said to be happening in Trutzlaff, a small village in Mecklenburg. The party secretary of the local LPG, Mattes Mathias, has the...

Maiden's War

Maiden's War

1977

as Schwerdtfeger

Acting

The three daughters of the Dessau merchant Sellmann move with their father to Prague in 1936, where he accepted a position as director of the Böhmisch...

10 % nádeje

1976

as Maťo Pompura

Acting
Secluded, Near Woods

Secluded, Near Woods

1976

as MUDr. Houdek

7.4
Acting

The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the ...

Život na úteku

Život na úteku

1976

as Vašek

Acting

In Slovakia, they often and gladly honored those soldiers who refused to serve the fascist regime and stood against it. Lieutenant Kukorelli also reje...

Do posledného dychu

1976

as Erich Fischer

Acting

The myth of the anti-fascist resistance in Slovakia was one of the important themes of normalization cinema, of course, treated with an emphasis on th...

Ešte sa nevraciam

1976

Acting

Tetované časom

1976

as Dr. Hocko

Acting

Pätnásť životov

1974

Acting
A Thousand and One Nights

A Thousand and One Nights

1974

as Narrator (voice)

6.1
Acting

Five different exploits of Sinbad the sailor where he gets mixed up with the pretty daughters of exotic potentates, with powerful monsters that threat...

Zbojník Ondráš

1974

Acting

Petr pátrá s námi

1974

Acting

Two Brothers

1974

as Alexandr

6.0
Acting

A love story in which two brothers - naive officer Yuri and demonic lover Alexander - compete for the young married princess Vera.

Wie füttert man einen Esel

Wie füttert man einen Esel

1974

as Pepi

5.0
Acting

Due to his profession, Fred, an easy-going and charming long-haul truck-driver, sees a lot of the world. Along his routes he enjoys the company of a l...

Sen noci svatojánské

Sen noci svatojánské

1974

4.0
Acting

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a charming comedy by W. Shakespeare, well-known from its numerous stage and film adaptations. In the course of one night,...

Tichý svědek

1974

Acting

Královská ozvěna

1974

8.0
Acting

Who would have thought that when the border mountain in King Florinda's kingdom was razed to the ground so that it would not block the sun, the echo w...

Královský gambit

1974

Acting

Wenceslas II, who already has adult children Eliška and Václav, refuses to marry the young Alžběta Rejčka. In the end, he succumbs to the insistence o...

O ševci Matějovi

1973

Acting

The princess wants to get married. She wants the groom to be no coward, he must be free from fear and shame, so she orders all the men in the area to ...

Princess Goldilocks

Princess Goldilocks

1973

as Rybář

6.8
Acting

A princess was so beautiful and had such golden hair that she was known as Pretty Goldilocks. A neighboring king fell in love with her from her descri...

Don Juan

1973

Acting
Známost sestry Aleny

Známost sestry Aleny

1973

as Karel Mareš (voice)

10.0
Acting

A psychological drama about a nurse and a seriously ill car racer and factory driver...

Poslední dopis

1973

6.0
Acting
Miss Golem

Miss Golem

1973

as Petr

4.6
Acting

It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Futurum exhibition. Young inventor Petr comes to her ...

Horolezci

1973

Acting

The true story of a Czechoslovak mountaineering expedition that set out in 1969 to conquer one of the most challenging peaks in the Himalayas. In a se...

Pohár za první poločas

1972

Acting

Dosť dobrí chlapi

1972

as Kamil Gubriš

Acting

A group of drivers paid according to their performance are struggling with hard work in a large quarry, somewhere where foxes say good night. A new wo...

Růže a prsten

1972

Acting

Once upon a time, a capricious witch conjured a rose and a ring and endowed them with magical properties. Whoever owns them arouses love in the opposi...

Muzikant

1971

7.0
Acting
Lucie and the Miracles

Lucie and the Miracles

1971

as Mikuláš

4.7
Acting

The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slapstick comedy in this story of an orphan girl. Lucy...

Radúz a Mahulena

Radúz a Mahulena

1971

as Radúz

6.2
Acting

Radúz, the son of a Magurian king, has lost his way hunting in the territory of the Tatra King Stojmír. He learns from his loyal servant Radovid the r...

Žabí muzikál

1971

as Prince Vanilin

3.5
Acting

Once upon a time, there was a kingdom where a spoiled and conceited princess lived. She didn't like frogs and other similar vermin, so she didn't like...

Drobínek

1971

8.0
Acting

The young shoemaker Drobínek knows how to repair shoes well and loves Mančinka. But because he lacks self-confidence, he cannot confess his love to he...

On the Comet

On the Comet

1970

as Porucík Servadac (voice)

6.0
Acting

When a comet passes the Earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa, and a small swathe of humanity, along with it.

Hádavá pohádka

1970

Acting
Cinderella

Cinderella

1969

as loutnista

7.8
Acting

During the day, Cinderella's face is covered in soot, but at night she transforms into a fairy-tale beautiful princess in a ball gown made of magic nu...

Nespavost ve dvou

1969

Acting

Raport

1968

as Karel

6.2
Acting
The Limping Devil

The Limping Devil

1968

as Head Physician Rudolf (voice)

4.0
Acting

A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic c...

Čtyři v kruhu

Čtyři v kruhu

1968

Acting

This drama with a criminal plot is a study of the intricately intertwined relationships of four people whose lives have been interrupted by the violen...

Ženitba

1967

Acting
The Stolen Airship

The Stolen Airship

1967

as Editor Ardan (voice)

6.9
Acting

The Stolen Airship (Czech: Ukradená vzducholod) is a 1967 live-action/animated film by Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman. The story is based loosely on Jule...

A Game Without Rules

A Game Without Rules

1967

5.0
Acting

A robbery in a Prague jeweler's shop results in the shop manager Kubát and his deputy Litera being shot and wounded. The culprits take the jewelery aw...

Martin a červené sklíčko

Martin a červené sklíčko

1967

Acting

Children's detective stories were very successful in the 1960s, and the stories of Martin the criminal even had several sequels. In this film, Martin ...

People From Caravans

People From Caravans

1966

as akrobat Vincek

10.0
Acting

Story about the people around the circus and the unfortunate love of a young man an acrobat. Before the dispute escalates so much that, according to t...

Z Adamova deníku

1966

Acting

Kacafírek

1966

Acting
5 Million Witnesses

5 Million Witnesses

1965

as Vyšetřovatel VB Koval

6.0
Acting

Now we see a naive reminder that television used to broadcast live productions, but in this case the live broadcast has taken on a surprisingly crimin...

Zlá minuta

1965

Acting

Lov na mamuta

1965

as Youngster (voice)

Acting

A young man tries to enter the building of the Mammoth Cybernetic Supermachines Research Institute again and again but each time the doorkeeper spots ...

The House in Karp Lane

The House in Karp Lane

1965

as Kowlorat

7.0
Acting
A Star Named Wormwood

A Star Named Wormwood

1965

as Lojzík

Acting

At the end of May 1918, released prisoners return to the Rumburk garrison from Russian captivity, hoping that the war is over for them. The only thing...

The Hiding of Black Bill

1965

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

The story of how Bill Black after a train robbery outwits his pursuers and the sheriff.

Komedie s Klikou

Komedie s Klikou

1964

4.0
Acting

On the train to Prague, the bride-to-be Zuzana Vítová accidentally meets the clerk Dr. Karel Jánský. Upon arriving in Prague, it seems that Jánský fol...

A Place in the Crowd

A Place in the Crowd

1964

as Technician Bohouš (voice) (segment "Jak se kalí ocel")

Acting

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public a...

Začít znova

Začít znova

1964

as Jan Stehlík (voice)

Acting

Young Jan Stehlík signs up for a job to build a new mine. On the train he meets the pretty Alena, who falls in love with him. However, she means nothi...

Among Us Thieves

Among Us Thieves

1964

Acting

The story of a trio of released criminals that even prison re-education did not reform. They intend to "bankrupt" a farming cooperative, but soon disc...

Domácí víno

1964

as Ota

Acting

Romance štědrovečerní

1963

2.0
Acting

Television lighting engineer Honza borrows an apartment from successful architect Zdeněk so that he can meet his love Marta alone. The architect prete...

The Golden Fern

The Golden Fern

1963

as Jura (voice)

6.4
Acting

Wandering through the forest, a woodcutter finds a golden fern whose seed turns into a beautiful woman - they fall in love. After getting drunk in a v...

Etuda pro kontrabas

1963

Acting
Tarzanova smrt

Tarzanova smrt

1963

5.5
Acting

In the era of the rise of Nazism in Germany, a strange man, exhibited in a circus for the amusement of the audience, is found to be the heir to a larg...

Dva z onoho světa

Dva z onoho světa

1962

5.0
Acting

A musical comedy about two indistinguishably similar siblings who love music, but each of them is completely different. Pavel Fořt is a professor of c...

Kohout plaší smrt

Kohout plaší smrt

1962

Acting

A group of saboteurs search for a weapons cache hidden by the Nazi army. Beskydy in the summer of 1950: the StB agent Borek infiltrates a group of sab...

Jejich den

1962

Acting
Where an Alibi Is Not Everything

Where an Alibi Is Not Everything

1961

as laboratory assistant Mirek Zach

Acting

“A bored housewife, a husband who married her for show, and a stupid boy who is full of himself because he is dating a Swiss woman.” The words of Insp...

August Sunday

1961

4.0
Acting

This lyrical comedy story takes place in two hot days in the small South Bohemian village. On the shore of a small pond, summer guests and local youth...

Policejní hodina

Policejní hodina

1961

4.0
Acting

The story of a poor, disintegrating family of a mother Fišerová and her three children. It is set in the 1890s - a time when the poor working classes ...

Pochodně

Pochodně

1961

as foreman Josef Pecka

5.0
Acting

Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly paid workers resemble torches because their clothes ...

Všude žijí lidé

Všude žijí lidé

1960

as Lojza Posvár

Acting

Even if a person grumbles about difficulties, he should realize that he will find a place where he did not want to go at all. Such an exemplary realiz...

U nás v Mechově

U nás v Mechově

1960

2.5
Acting

A rumour that a large holiday resort is supposedly being built on the banks of the local pond causes confusion among the villagers.

První parta

První parta

1960

5.0
Acting

The unfortunate 1930s also befell the student Standa Půlpán. For existential reasons, he had to abandon his studies and entered the mines. However, he...

Kruh

Kruh

1959

as Honzík

Acting

The mother is trying to prevent the break-up of a marriage of many years. She knows about her husband's infidelity, but fears his leaving the family w...

Pět z milionu

Pět z milionu

1959

6.0
Acting

Five short stories: The Master and the Twentieth Disciple; Every Week is Sunday; It's Boniface's Fault; The Raggedy Song; The Spider's Web.

Láska na toulkách

1959

as Soldier

Acting
Váhavý střelec

Váhavý střelec

1957

as Martin Něnička

4.0
Acting

The hesitant shooter becomes a timid young man who only the war will make a real man.

Ve vzduchu je nepřítel

1955

as Commentary (voice)

Acting

Jedeme na spartakiádu

1955

as Commentary (voice)

Acting

Ještě včera to znamenalo smrt

N/A

as Pavel

Acting