George Voskovec
Birthday: 1905-06-19
Place of Birth: Sázava, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Biography: Jiří Voskovec (born Jiří Wachsmann; June 19, 1905 – July 1, 1981), known in the United States as George Voskovec, was a Czech-American actor. Throughout much of his career, he was associated with actor and playwright Jan Werich. In the U.S., he is known for his role as the polite Juror #11 in the 1957 film 12 Angry Men.
Movies
The 27th Day
Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on ...
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BUtterfield 8
Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking s...
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Barbarosa
Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose ...
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The Boston Strangler
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story...
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face an...
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The Iceman Cometh
Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the...
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Affair in Trinidad
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer....
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The Nativity
The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas....
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The Iron Mistress
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother,...
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Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately st...
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Man on a Swing
When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief...
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Your Money or Your Life
A czech film that focuses on an unfaithful husband who married in to money, as well as an impoverish...
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Skag
Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stro...
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Mister Buddwing
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is....
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Powder and Petrol
The Voskovec and Werich duo play a peculiar pair - a clumsy coach driver and an equally clumsy traff...
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Heave-Ho!
A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings wit...
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The World Belongs to Us
One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly n...
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Happy Days
Winnie, a woman in her fifties, is buried waist-deep in a mound of scorched earth, with just a large...
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Crisis
A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2....
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Paradise Lost
Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of...
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Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series....
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Particular Men
A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows severa...
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Somewhere in Time
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs h...
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An Enemy of the People
Set in a Norwegian hamlet, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's hot springs are contami...
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The Velvet Alley
Ernie Pandash has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he...
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The Bravados
Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men...
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Wind Across the Everglades
Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden who arrives in Florida to enforce cons...
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The Desperate Ones
In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossibl...
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12 Angry Men
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a...
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Anything Can Happen
A quirky relationship unfolds between an immigrant and an all-American folk music fan....
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Arsenic & Old Lace
1962 telefilm adaptation of the classic American play about a deranged family and the string of murd...
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Nicky's World
A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks d...
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Pohádka máje
A lyrical tale of the pure, vernal romance between a diffident, somewhat naive girl from a rural bac...
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Uncle Vanya
A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chek...
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