Miroslav Horníček
Also Known As: Мирослав Горничек
Biography: K divadlu se dostal na plzeňské reálce, kde chodil do ochotnického spolku a se spolužáky založil Studentský avantgardní kolektiv. Po vystudování byl krátce zaměstnán jako úředník v plzeňské nemocnici. V roce 1941 přijal angažmá v Městském divadle v Plzni, brzy po válce odešel do Prahy. Nejprve hrál v Divadle Větrník, o rok později nastoupil k bratrům Oldřichu a Lubomíru Lipským do Divadla satiry. Poté hrál šest let na scéně Národního divadla. V roce 1955 se stal partnerem Jana Wericha v Divadle ABC (Jiří Voskovec po 2. světové válce emigroval do Spojených států amerických). S Werichem hrál šest let, například ve hrách Těžká Barbora nebo Husaři. Po Werichově odchodu roku 1961 vytvořil podobnou dvojici s Milošem Kopeckým. Nehráli však spolu dlouho. Už v roce 1962 se stal na dva roky členem Hudebního divadla v Karlíně a záhy i Divadla Semafor, kde účinkoval například ve hře Člověk z půdy. Působil i vMěstských divadlech pražských, velmi známé a značně populární byly jeho Hovory přes rampu kde přímo z divadelní rampy odpovídal na živé dotazy diváků kladené z hlediště a tak neformálně besedoval s publikem. Hrál také ve filmech. Ztvárnil hlavní role ve filmech Táto, sežeň štěně a Kam čert nemůže a v televizním seriálu Byli jednou dva písaři, dále několik vedlejších rolí v mnoha dalších filmech, z nichž nejznámější je role Krásného prince ve filmové pohádce Byl jednou jeden král. V roce 1965 si zahrál v komediálním snímku z produkce východoněmecké Defy Bez pasu v cizích postelích. Známé je také jeho působení v roli moderátora filmového zpravodajství z Mezinárodního filmového festivalu v Karlových Varech. V roce 1967 se účastnil avantgardního projektu Kinoautomat autorů Radúze Činčery, scenáristy Pavla Juráčka a režisérů Jána Roháče a Vladimíra Svitáčka na světové výstavě v Montrealu. Horníček působil v roli průvodce filmovým představením, které se v určitých dramatických momentech větvilo. Samo publikum rozhodovalo, jak bude děj pokračovat. Zajímavostí je, že on sám neuměl vůbec anglicky. Text měl foneticky odposlouchaný a naučený. Tehdejší novinka vzbudila značný ohlas a po celou dobu výstavy byla představení beznadějně vyprodaná, jednalo se o první případ tzv. interaktivního filmu na světě. Z tohoto pobytu vytěžil knihu fejetonůJavorové listy, uveřejňovaných původně v Literárních novinách. Po návratu z Montrealu se společně s režisérem Vladimírem Svitáčkem pustili do televizního projektu, který mu přinesl obrovskou popularitu. Scéna byla jednoduchá. Uprostřed publika byl stolek, u kterého seděl nad lahví červeného vína Horníček se svým hostem. Promlouval s takovými osobnostmi, jako byli mj. Jan Werich, Jan Pivec, Jiří Sovák, Július Satinský a Milan Lasica. Do svých rozhovorů vkládal inteligentní humor, který oslovuje mnohé diváky i dnes. V roce 2004 vyšla v reedici kniha Hovory H.. Pořad se vysílal v letech 1968–1971, s nástupem normalizace byl však zrušen. Dochovaly se z něj vzácné televizní záznamy, pořad vyšel i na gramofonových deskách firmy Supraphon, později i na CD. V Plzni je na jeho počest od roku 2000 pojmenováno Horníčkovo divadlo. Byla zde 10. listopadu 2003 odhalena pamětní deska.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Plzeň, Česká republika
Birthday: November 10, 1918
Deathday: February 15, 2003
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Revue pro banjo
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Genres: Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-01-04
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Karel Gott v Lucerně
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1985-02-01
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
Overview: A selfish self-centered widowed ruler, barely tolerated by his subjects and called appropriately enough, 'King Myself, First' asks his three daughters to name the measure of their love for him. When one of them says, "more than salt", he banishes her from the kingdom. Not understanding what she meant the King assumes love can only be measured by precious metals or one's own talent, the 'correct' answers from his other two daughters. The arrogance of the King leads him to gather all the salt in the kingdom and destroy it. Of course, this backfires as he slowly learns the universal value of the substance, and of course, the essence of his daughter's reply. With the help of the wise and magical old 'herb woman', the King also learns what it means to be a true and wise ruler.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1955-02-11
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Bez svatozáře
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-07-03
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Výhybka
Overview: A story of two old friends, who after ten years - one as the deputy director and the other as the chairman of the party organization - meet on a large construction site.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1963-11-14
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Lov na mamuta
Overview: A young man tries to enter the building of the Mammoth Cybernetic Supermachines Research Institute again and again but each time the doorkeeper spots him and kicks him out. The youth finally arrives with all his friends and a huge live bear from the circus where he works as an accountant. He is finally allowed in where he explains to the members of the directorate that he wants to work at the Institute, since he graduated in cybernetics and, besides, he has invented a machine for forecasting time of death. When the conniving research manager learns that their director is going to die in two days, he hopes to rise to his position.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1965-04-23
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Kinoautomat
Overview: Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal. At nine points during the film the action stops, and a moderator appears on stage to ask the audience to choose between two scenes; following an audience vote, the chosen scene is played.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1971-01-14
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Zhasněte lampióny
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Ve vlaku
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Silvestr na přání aneb Čí jsou hory Kavčí
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1977-12-31
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Silvestr 1978
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1978-12-31
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Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-12-31
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When the Woman Butts In
Overview: Kam Cert Nemuze by director Zdenek Podskalsky is a routine farce that slowly builds up steam to some rib-tickling slapstick episodes. (Miroslav Hornicek) is a deluded young man who is convinced he is Faust incarnate. This turn of mind leads to some ludicrous situations, such as when he believes a woman is really a cat. Before he can be rounded up and interned wherever they keep people with this type of a problem, love enters his life and the clouds that obscured his vision begin to dissipate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1960-03-10
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Táto sežeň štěně
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1964-11-06
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Hudba kolonád
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Genres: Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1975-12-12
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Muzikál pro Nelly Gaierovou
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Genres: Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Balada z hadrů
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1960-08-17
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Na návštěvě u Horníčků
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Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Člověk z půdy
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Konec jasnovidce
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Žárlivost
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Prince Copperslick's Thirteenth Chamber
Overview: A meat-eating monarch marries a vegetarian princess.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Death Behind a Curtain
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1967-03-17
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Every Penny Counts
Overview: After inheriting a villa from his uncle, Emil Tuma meets its strange inhabitants, getting him in trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1961-09-29
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Mikoláš Aleš
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1952-01-11
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Soudný den
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-11-11
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Don't Take Shelter From The Rain
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1962-08-03
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Už komedianti jedou...
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Věra–nevěra
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-12-31
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Bill, Please
Overview: The director of the company Restaurants and Canteens arrives to attend a screening of a film made in various restaurants. A group of villagers come in to one of the restaurants for their lunch. The two waiters carry on chatting and ignore their customers. The head waiter finally brings them a crumpled menu, but whatever they order, he crosses off the menu and urges them to order something they do not want. In another restaurant a customer complains he has found a button in his sauce. The waiter promises to get him another portion but, once out of sight, he simply takes the button out of the food and brings back the same plate on which he has carelessly rearranged the food. Other customers are trying to pay but the staff point to the waiter with the wallet; he, however, is absorbed in watching a chess game and is neglecting his duties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Polibek ze stadionu
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1948-02-06
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Přehlídka dobré pohody
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Genres: Music
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Muži ve fraku
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Zrcadlo
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Pan Novák
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1949-06-10
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How Man Learned to Fly
Overview: A short, humorous history of aviation based on Kamil Lhoták's book "Balloons, Wings, Propellers."
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Early Days
Overview: Early Days follows the early life of famous Czech writer Alois Jirásek. Jirásek had already developed his own view of the history of the Czech nation while he was at grammar school in Broumov. When he becomes the supply teach in Litomyšl, he has already written his first book and a number of poems. The local dignitaries await the arrival of the young writer in excited anticipation. Jirásek, however, is sickened by the empty patriotism from the depths of his soul and soon becomes disagreeable to the notables. The district sheriff tries to remove Jirásek from the school and drive him out of town. Unable to do this, the sheriff appoints a pro-Austrian headmaster who attempts to sabotage Jirásek. The students stand behind Jirásek , however, and discontent is not only felt in Litomyšl but throughout Bohemia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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Sníh a smích
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1953-12-26
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Psí starosti
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Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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