Due to his illness at the time of shooting, he turned down the part of Zásinek in All My Good Countrymen (1969), eventually played by Waldemar Matuska.
[on playing negative roles]: "I never want to portray a negative character as a deterrent. I always want to find something human in it. You're not bad because you want to be bad. To master negative features of the character also needs a bit of ...
Jirí Schmitzer
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
(age 79)
Prague, Czech Republic