Karel Lamač

Director, Screenwriter, Actor

Date of birth

27 January 1897

Place of birth

Praha, Rakousko-Uhersko

Date of death

2 August 1952

Place of death

Hamburk, Západní Německo

Alternative names

Karel Veliký František Lamač (rodné jméno), Carl Lamac (pseudonym), Ixyl (pseudonym), Ixyl – Karel Lamač a spolupracovníci (pseudonym)

Filmography

The Lantern

1938

Director

Watch Out for the Ghosts

1938

DirectorScreenplayWriter of Lyrics

Ducháček Will Fix It

1938

DirectorCast

Role: on sám v úvodních titulcích

Forbidden Love

1938

CastDirector

Role: Tonny, Markův synovec a asistent

Grounds for Divorce

1937

Director

The World Belongs to Us

1937

Voice by

Role: hlas z rádia

On the Green Meadow

1936

CastDirectorSinger

Role: soukromý docent Václav Bulfínek

Polish Blood

1934

Director

Three Steps from the Body

1934

CastSinger

Role: Tommy Fikejs

Jindra, the Countess Ostrovín

1933

DirectorCast

Role: učitel dr. Vojtěch Lípa

The Good Tramp Bernášek

1933

Original StoryCastScreenplayDirector

Role: akcesista Alois Bernášek

Twelve Armchairs

1933

Screenplay

Public Not Admitted

1933

CastFilm EditorSinger

Role: JUDr. Anatol Brynda

The Undertaker

1932

Director

The "Ideal" Schoolmaster

1932

Writer of LyricsSingerCastFilm Editor

Role: profesor Karel Suchý

Him and His Sister [German version]

1931

DirectorFilm Editor

Him and His Sister

1931

DirectorFilm Editor

Imperial and Royal Field Marshal

1930

DirectorFilm Editor

Vrba the Clerk

1929

Cast

Role: adjunkt Karel Vrba

The Sins of Love

1929

Director

Prague Seamstresses

1929

Cast

Role: pekařský pomocník Jeník, Bernáškův syn

The Sin of the Past

1929

Cast

Role: Karel Horyna

Eva's Daughters

1928

DirectorCastFilm Editor

Role: malíř Rudolf Romain

Sin

1928

Director

Father Vojtěch

1928

Cast

Role: Dvoreckého syn Vojtěch

A Flower of the Šumava Mountains

1927

DirectorProduction Company ScreenplayOriginal StoryCast

Role: dr. Jiří Kalvoda, syn drožkáře

Sweet Josefine

1927

DirectorCast

A Lordly Estate

1927

Cast

Role: MUDr. Václav Zdeborský

The Good Soldier Švejk

1926

DirectorCast

Role: hostinský Palivec/nadporučík Lukáš

The Old Dad Bezoušek

1926

DirectorCast

Role: JUC. Jiří Králiš, magistrátní praktikant, básník

Švejk at the Front

1926

DirectorCast

Role: nadporučík Lukáš

Getting a Camel Through the Eye of a Needle

1926

DirectorScreenplayCast

Role: Alík Vilím

Anička, Come Back!

1926

Cast

Role: tulák Petr/Jiří Landa

The Six Musketeers

1925

Cast

Role: svobodník Karel Donát /Freiter D/

The Countess from Podskalí

1925

ScreenplayDirectorCast

Role: hrabě Viktor z Renné

Karel Havlíček Borovský

1925

ScreenplayDirectorOriginal StoryCast

Role: Havlíčkův bratr František

The Lantern

1925

ScreenplayDirectorCast

Role: učitelský mládenec Josef Zajíček

The Wedding Shirt

1925

Cast

Role: umrlec

Into the Genteel State of Life

1925

Cast

Role: MUC. Václav Zdeborský

The Son of the Mountains

1925

Cast

Role: Frank Solar

The Wedding of Nanynka Kulichová

1925

Cast

Role: učitel Václav Vejlupek

Josef Kajetán Tyl

1925

Cast

Role: František Palacký

White Paradise

1924

CastFilm EditorScreenplayDirectorOriginal Story

Role: Ivan Holar

Catch Him!

1924

CastScreenplayDirectorOriginal Story

Role: sochař Johnny Milller

The Lady From the Bar

1924

Cast

Role: bankovní úředník Mario Zeman

Matrimonial Sins

1924

Cast

Role: Mario Zeman

A Double Life

1924

Cast

Role: opilec v hospodě U Slunce

Man Without a Heart

1923

Cast

Role: princ Edgar z Georgie

The Kidnapping of Fux the Banker

1923

Cast

Role: Tom Darey

Tutankhamen

1923

Cast

Role: učenec Drtichlup

The Maharajah's Pleasure

1922

Cast

Role: mahárádža Mamlas Bej

The Lumberjack

1922

CastScreenplayDirectorOriginal Story

Role: bankéř a drvoštěp Karel Svansen

The Last Kiss

1922

Cast

Role: konzervatorista Roman Trojský

The Snow Rose

1922

Cast

Role: vesnický mladík

The Dead are Living

1922

Cast

Role: dr. Jiljí Dubín

Koryatovich

1922

Cast

Role: Fedorův přítel

The Crucified

1921

Cast

Role: dělostřelecký důstojník Karel Vyšín/student Jan, Vyšínův syn

Get Married, Girls!

1921

Cast

Role: hudební skladatel Horák

The Poisoned Light

1921

DirectorOriginal StoryScreenplayCast

Role: Ing. Milan Bell

The Arrival from the Darkness

1921

Cast

Role: Ješek Dražický z Lomu a Střehova, Alenin bratranec, příchozí z temnot

Duel with God

1921

Cast

Role: Ing. Hamr

Gilly in Prague for the First Time

1920

DirectorOriginal StoryProduction Company Cast

Role: strýc Hrom

The Song of Gold

1920

Cast

Role: chemik Edgar Zoran

The Missing Letters

1920

Cast

Role: sochař Šalda

Magdalena

1920

Cast

Role: Jiří

Up There in the Mountains

1920

Cast

Role: malíř Jaromír Hanuš

The Golden Woman

1920

Cast

Role: Orlíkův soused, Vlastin nápadník

The Furious Bridegroom

1919

DirectorCastOriginal StoryScreenplay

Chord of Death

1919

CastDirector

Role: virtuos Aleš Ajval

Alois Wins the Lottery

1919

Cast

Role: Jirka, Aloisův přítel

Palimpsest

1919

Cast

Role: sochař

Reawakened Conscience

1919

Cast

Role: Daniel Žalén

Through Suffering to Glory

1919

Cast

Role: českobratrský písmák/barikádník/další jedna role

Revue

Karel Lamač

For Karel Lamač, film meant everything. And Karel Lamač had been almost everything in the film industry, too.  He proved...