List of Czech Americans - Dramatic Art

Dramatic Art

• Milos Forman, film director.
• Fanny Janauschek, a famed character actress, who became famous acting in great Shakespearean parts and other famous parts.
• Jim Jarmusch, independent filmmaker.
• Francis Lederer, b. Prague, Czech., actor, leading man in Hollywood from 1933, after European stage and film experience.
• Karl Malden, of Czech mother, an actor, whose career that spanned more than seven decades, he performed in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
• Eva Novak, b. St. Louis, MO, of Bohemian ancestry, an actress, a silent screen lady; she starred as Tom Mix's love interest in ten of his westerns, including "Sky High" and "Trailin".
• Jane Novak, b. St. Louis, MO, of Bohemian ancestry, an actress; the celebrated blond beauty and a leading lady to such stars as W. S. Hart, Tom Mix, Harold Lloyd, Hobart Bosworth, W. D. Taylor, Charles Ray, etc.
• Kim Novak, motion picture actress.
• Sissy Spacek, actress, her father is of Czech origin.
• George Voskovec, actor, writer.
• Blanche Yurka (orig, Jurka), of Czech immigrant father, an American theatre and film actress until the late 1960s. In addition to her many stage roles, including Queen Gertrude opposite John Barrymore's Hamlet, she was also a director and playwright.
• William Zabka, actor, producer, screenwriter, and martial artist.
• Robert Urich, actor