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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Barefoot
2017
as Eda's grandfather
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
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
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
2012
as Václav Mádr
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
2011
as Bishop
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
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
2008
as kat
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
2005
as Marquis
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
2004
as Professor Otakar Horecký
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
2003
as Standas father
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
2003
as Old Gorcík
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
2003
as Lear, král Británie
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
2003
as Otto Brewer / Trainer
A young girl's aunt tells her the tale of a young ice skater and an enchanted reindeer.
Bůh ví…
2002
as Vincent
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
2001
as Laphonse
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
2000
as Melvin Szabo
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
1999
as Prophet #1
An ancient prophecy is about to be fulfilled as a secret code brings the world to the edge of apocalypse.

Apt Pupil
1998
as Isaac Weiskopf
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
1998
as Dapper Gent
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
1996
as The Assassin
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living p...

Andersonville
1996
as Cap. Henry Wirz
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
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
1995
as Jan Fierlinger (voice)
Fierlinger concentrates his considerable talents as an animator to recount through fragmented memories, vivid recollections, and the occasional evocat...

My Antonia
1995
as Mr. Shimerda
After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.
Řád
1994
as kněz
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
1994
as Dr. Arthur Jamidar
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
1993
as White Agent
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
1993
as Axel
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
1991
as Igor Hnízdo
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
1990
as Steckler
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
Vyloženě rodinná historie
1990
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
1989
as Milos
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
1988
as Capt. Valery
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
1987
as General Wolf
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
1985
as Mike Romanoff
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
1984
as Alexander Kovalev
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
1984
as Swedish Architect
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
1984
as Jerzy Czyrek
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
1984
as Deputy Markov
Gary Coleman plays the son of a U.S. diplomat who imagines himself in fantastic situations.

Uncommon Valor
1983
as Gericault
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
1983
as Andrei Mikalovich
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
1983
as Vaselievitch
When THRUSH steals a nuclear weapon and demands a ransom delivered by Napoleon Solo, UNCLE recalls him and his partner to duty.

Reds
1981
as Karl Radek
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
1981
as Rodzenko
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
1981
as Special Reporter
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
1977
A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

The Crazy Smell of Fresh Hay
1977
as Romeo Aventuro
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
1977
as Schwerdtfeger
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

Secluded, Near Woods
1976
as MUDr. Houdek
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
1976
as Vašek
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
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
Tetované časom
1976
as Dr. Hocko
Pätnásť životov
1974

A Thousand and One Nights
1974
as Narrator (voice)
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
Petr pátrá s námi
1974
Two Brothers
1974
as Alexandr
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
1974
as Pepi
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
1974
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
Královská ozvěna
1974
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
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
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
1973
as Rybář
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

Známost sestry Aleny
1973
as Karel Mareš (voice)
A psychological drama about a nurse and a seriously ill car racer and factory driver...
Poslední dopis
1973

Miss Golem
1973
as Petr
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
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
Dosť dobrí chlapi
1972
as Kamil Gubriš
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
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

Lucie and the Miracles
1971
as Mikuláš
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
1971
as Radúz
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
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
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
1970
as Porucík Servadac (voice)
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

Cinderella
1969
as loutnista
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
Raport
1968
as Karel

The Limping Devil
1968
as Head Physician Rudolf (voice)
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
1968
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

The Stolen Airship
1967
as Editor Ardan (voice)
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
1967
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
1967
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
1966
as akrobat Vincek
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
Kacafírek
1966

5 Million Witnesses
1965
as Vyšetřovatel VB Koval
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
Lov na mamuta
1965
as Youngster (voice)
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
1965
as Kowlorat

A Star Named Wormwood
1965
as Lojzík
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)
The story of how Bill Black after a train robbery outwits his pursuers and the sheriff.

Komedie s Klikou
1964
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
1964
as Technician Bohouš (voice) (segment "Jak se kalí ocel")
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
1964
as Jan Stehlík (voice)
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
1964
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
Romance štědrovečerní
1963
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
1963
as Jura (voice)
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

Tarzanova smrt
1963
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
1962
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
1962
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

Where an Alibi Is Not Everything
1961
as laboratory assistant Mirek Zach
“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
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
1961
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
1961
as foreman Josef Pecka
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
1960
as Lojza Posvár
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
1960
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
1960
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
1959
as Honzík
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
1959
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

Váhavý střelec
1957
as Martin Něnička
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)
Jedeme na spartakiádu
1955
as Commentary (voice)
Ještě včera to znamenalo smrt
N/A
as Pavel