ACTOR

Jan Tříska

1936 - 2017

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Jan Tříska (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈtr̝̊iːska]; 4 November 1936 – 25 September 2017) was a Czech actor who played over 160 roles across stage, film, and television. He worked in the United States after emigrating there in the 1970s, but later returned to his native country following the Velvet Revolution. He was a three-time Czech Lion Award nominee, for Best Actor in Leading Role (Lunacy, 2005), and twice for Best Supporting Actor (Rád, 1994; Up and Down; 2004). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Tříska is the 3,044th most popular actor (up from 3,073rd in 2019), the 455th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 464th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Czech Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Jan Tříska ranks 3,044 out of 13,578. Before him are Ray Romano, Patrick Troughton, Kevin Hagen, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Hayley Atwell, and Cheryl Ladd. After him are Franca Rame, William Conrad, Eileen Ryan, Peter Alexander, Sam Jaffe, and Francesca Bertini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Jan Tříska ranks 279. Before him are Edward Feigenbaum, Antonin Scalia, Feliciano Rivilla, Toralf Engan, Jan Němec, and Stanislav Govorukhin. After him are Anton Allemann, Edvard Radzinsky, Saburō Kawabuchi, Igor Rodionov, Albert Ayler, and Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. Among people deceased in 2017, Jan Tříska ranks 250. Before him are Feliciano Rivilla, Max Gallo, Hilarion Capucci, Ludvig Faddeev, Christine Keeler, and Shashi Kapoor. After him are Torgny Lindgren, Betty Cuthbert, Brunhilde Pomsel, Armando Calderón Sol, Georgy Grechko, and Daphne Caruana Galizia.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Tříska ranks 455 out of 1,200. Before him are František Čáp (1913), Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe (1875), Josef Košťálek (1909), Jan Němec (1936), Maria Jeritza (1887), and Franziskus von Paula Graf von Schönborn (1844). After him are Bohumil Kubišta (1884), Václav Brožík (1851), Jan Werich (1906), Jiří Tichý (1933), Yehuda Bauer (1926), and Helena Suková (1965).

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Among ACTORS In Czechia

Among actors born in Czechia, Jan Tříska ranks 11. Before him are Vladimír Menšík (1929), Josef Abrhám (1939), Jean-Gaspard Deburau (1796), Jana Brejchová (1940), Dagmar Lassander (1943), and Vlastimil Brodský (1920). After him are Jan Werich (1906), Karel Roden (1962), Zdeněk Svěrák (1936), Ernst Deutsch (1890), Hugo Haas (1901), and Vladimir Kulich (1956).

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