Radoslav Brzobohatý

Radoslav Brzobohatý (; 13 September 1932 – 12 September 2012) was a Czech actor. He acted in film, television and theatre, portraying around 200 roles during his career.

Life and career

Radoslav Brzobohatý was born on 13 September 1932 in Vrútky in the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia, into a sailor's family. In 1940, his family returned to Moravia, where they came from. He spent his childhood in Valašské Meziříčí. At the age of eight, he first appeared on stage, in an adaptation of Broučci. He also played the violin in his childhood. Before finishing his studies at the gymnasium in Valašské Meziříčí, he was expelled. He then trained as a knitting machine mechanic in Krnov, where he co-founded a music group and began playing in an amateur theatre.

Brzobohatý graduated from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU) in 1954. Between 1954 and 1963, he played in various regional theatres (in Kolín, Most, Olomouc and Příbram). He then moved to Prague, where he played in the S. K. Neumann Theatre. From 1967 to 1999, he played in the Vinohrady Theatre. Since the late 1990s, he was a guest actor in various theatres.

Brzobohatý was charismatic and had an athletic build, which was reflected in the types of characters he played. He played in various genres in theatre and film.

Selected filmography

Mstitel (1959) Bílá spona (1960) Atentát (1964) Hvězda zvaná Pelyněk (1964) A Leap in the Dark (1964) All My Good Countrymen (1968) Záhada hlavolamu (TV series; 1969) The Ear (1970) I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970) F. L. Věk (TV series; 1971–1972) Thirty Cases of Major Zeman (TV series; 1974–1976) Do Be Quick (1977) The Prince and the Evening Star (1978) Night Riders (1981) Sněženky a machři (1982) Angel in a Devil's Body (1983) The Night of the Emerald Moon (1984) Scalpel, Please (1985) Slavné historky zbojnické (TV series; 1986) Cirkus Humberto (TV series; 1988) It Will Stay Between Us (2003) Sněženky a machři po 25 letech (2008) Vyprávěj (TV series; 2009–2012)