Name
Karel Effa
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1922-05-23
Deathday
1993-06-11 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Praha, Československo
Biography
Karel Effa, originally named Karel Effenberger (May 23, 1922 in Prague - June 11, 1993 in Prague), was a Czech actor.
As a professional soldier during World War II, he served in the Government Army during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which was deployed to Italy. Here he later ran to the Czechoslovak troops fighting on the side of the Western Allies. After the war, he remained in the army with the rank of sergeant, playing and singing for two years in the newly formed Army Art Ensemble of Vít Nejedlý. From there he went to the Theater of Satire, from there to the Theater of State Film, from there to the Music Theater in Karlín, from where he briefly jumped to the ABC Theater to return to the Karlín Theater. He has been a member of the Semafor Theater since 1979.
Karel Effa was a very prominent comedian who created 71 smaller and episodic film roles during his life - such as the villain Pancho Kid in the Czech comedy Lemonade Joe or Horse Opera, the black Gustav in Zeman's famous film The Stolen Airship, or the treasure keeper in the fairy tale film Proud princess. Karel Effa worked for many years as a member of the Czechoslovak State Film Ensemble, resp. Film studio in Barrandov, he also performed in the Theater in Fidlovačka, or in the former musical theater in Prague's Nusle, he also worked in the post-war Theater of Satire.
In addition to performing in theater and film, he has given six thousand touring performances during his lifetime, where he has used his folk humor, playing the guitar and singing tramp songs. He also remained a hiker all his life, he went to Brdy, often to the settlement of Ztracenka.
In 1964, he became a founding member of the Department of Friends and Supporters of Slavia, which aimed to save and lift football Slavia, which at the time lived in the Second Football League.
Known For
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Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín...
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Five young people take off in a lighter-than-air machine at the Prague Centennial Exhibiti...
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When a comet passes the Earth at close range, it pulls a small part of North Africa with i...
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A Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse fur disg...
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A fairy-tale about an old lady who takes care of snow and Jakub who does not fear death. I...
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While old Oliva tells a group of children about his life as a sailor and how he met Diana ...
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This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to ...
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During the Thirty Years' War, ploughman Petr, recruiter Matěj and country girl Lenka are ...
- 1978 Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet as špeh
- 1964 Lemonade Joe as Pancho Kid
- 1977 Koncert pro mantinely
- 1977 Pozor, ide Jozefína...
- 1952 The Proud Princess as Strážce pokladu
- 1980 Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem
- 1970 On the Comet as kaprál Ben
- 1985 S Pydlou v zádech as komorník
- 1966 Who Wants to Kill Jessie? as Pistolník
- 1959 May Stars
- 1959 The Princess with the Golden Star as pobočník Kazisvěta
- 2016 Věčná Slavia
- 1961 Black Saturday as cestující ve vlaku
- 1964 The Jester's Tale as Captain Varga
- 1977 Long Live Ghosts! as Mládek
- 1966 The Pipes
- 1968 The Wishing Machine
- 1955 Hudba z Marsu as Kulhánek, hráč na cello a kytaru
- 1969 Pražská romance
- 1970 I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
- 1974 Sám proti městu
- 1972 Straw Hat
- 1988 Paní Liška as otec
- 1971 Zpívající přístavy
- 1973 Affairs of my Wife
- 1974 A Night at Karlstein
- 1977 Almost King
- 1961 Tlouštík
- 1947 The Stolen Border as závodčí
- 1965 The Borrowed Face as lupič Hmaták
- 1984 ...and again that Lucy! as Electrician
- 1949 Distant Journey as Gas Chamber Builder (uncredited)
- 1985 Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval as Self - Actor
- 1971 Four Murders Are Enough, Darling as majitel baru Kovarski
- 1981 Bulldogs and Cherries
- 1984 Amadeus as Leporello
- 1985 The Feather Fairy as Troupe Principal
- 1984 Byt je vykraden, maminko...
- 1985 The False Prince as Vizier
- 1986 Růžový Hubert
- 1962 The Fabulous Baron Munchausen as důstojník pevnostní stráže
- 1960 The Lost Photography
- 1963 When the Cat Comes as Janek
- 1963 A Great Road Ahead as archduke
- 1971 Marcelka
- 1957 Florenc 13,30 as Karel Koníček
- 1976 Circus in the Circus as Veterinary
- 1967 The Stolen Airship as Agent 13
- 1956 Muž v povětří as listonoš
- 1959 Of Things Supernatural as (segment "Tajemství písma")
- 1971 You Are a Widow, Sir as zřízenec na patologii
- 1968 The Terribly Sad Princess as nápadník
- 1949 Rodinné trampoty oficiála Tříšky as sedlák
- 1979 The Ninth Heart as Lackey
- 1961 Florián as kostelník Kalina
- 1972 Zlatá svatba as drobný chovatel Choleva
- 1954 The Circus Will Be
- 1961 Every Penny Counts
- 1964 A Star Travels South as Egon Zejda - guitarist
- 1949 Pan Novák as Vašek Kunc
- 1978 Good-for-Nothing
- 1952 Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy as Porotce
- 1953 Kidnapped as american journalist
- 1956 Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph
- 1956 Sons of the Mountains
- 1986 A co ten ruksak, králi?
- 1963 Ticho! Ticho! Ticho!
- 1966 Martin and Nine Fools
- 1947 Nobody Knows Anything
- 1947 Parohy
- 1947 Portáši
- 1947 The Last of the Mohicans
- 1961 The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
- 1966 Svatební cesta aneb Ještě ne, Evžene!
- 1948 The Musician
- 1948 Ves v pohraničí as Jarda
- 1947 Sign of the Anchor
- 1949 Red Lizard
- 1948 Old Ironside
- 1961 Ztracená revue
- 1949 Zrcadlo na vesnici 3
- 1949 Zrcadlo byrokratické 2
- 1953 Nad námi svítá
- 1961 Pochodně as Warden in prison
- 1984 ...and again that Lucy!
- 1973 Three Men Travelling
- 1964 Secret of the Chinese Carnation as Blinky
- 1988 Figurky ze šmantů
- 1988 Náhodou je príma!
- 1954 Setkání s Hansem Sachsem
- 1972 Bakaláři ( 1 episode )
- 1980 Dnes v jednom domě ( 2 episodes ) as Mánek
- 1970 Pan Tau ( 1 episode )
- 1968 Klapzubova jedenáctka ( 2 episodes )
- 1976 Thirty Cases of Major Zema ( 1 episode )
- 1984 The Flying Cestmir ( 4 episodes )
- 1978 Nemocnice na kraji města ( 2 episodes )
- 1983 Ze staré drogerie ( 1 episode ) as Tauben Sr.
