Vladimír Šmeral

Vladimír Šmeral
at play Manon Lescaut 1940
Born	(1903-10-16)October 16, 1903 Drásov, 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 Drásov – 15 March 1982, in Prague) was a Czech actor.

Life

Šmeral 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)
• The Heroes Are Silent (1946)
• Čapek's Tales (1947)
• Silent Barricade (1949)
• The Great Opportunity (1950)
• 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 Theatre Archive
• FDb.cz– Vladimír Šmeral (in Czech)