George Voskovec

AKA: Jiří Voskovec, Jiří Wachsmann, Jiri Voskovec
1.4937

1905-06-19

Sázava, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Biography

Jiří Voskovec (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈvoskovɛts]) (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.

Crew Roles

Golem
Theatre Play
Těžká Barbora
Writer
Balada z hadrů
Theatre Play
The World Belongs to Us
Theatre Play
Your Money or Your Life
Screenplay
Powder and Petrol
Story
Powder and Petrol
Screenplay
Your Money or Your Life
Story
Heave-Ho!
Screenplay
Heave-Ho!
Story
Powder and Petrol
Producer
Here in Kocourkov
Lyricist
The Golem
Theatre Play
The World Belongs to Us
Screenplay
The World Belongs to Us
Lyricist
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {77}

Prof. Klaus Bechner

1957-01-07 6.2

The 27th Day

Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien saucer, where an alien gives each a container holding three capsules. The alien explains th ...
Genre :Science Fiction

Dr. Tredman

1960-11-04 6.324

BUtterfield 8

Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into money. ...
Genre :Drama

Herman Pahmeyer

1982-02-19 5.8

Barbarosa

Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is ...
Genre :Western, Action

Peter Hurkos

1968-10-08 6.7

The Boston Strangler

Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

East German Defense Attorney

1965-12-16 7.067

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 another mission, which may prove to be his final one. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Piet Wetjoen

1973-11-10 6.1

The Iceman Cometh

Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drinks and spirited stories ...
Genre :Drama

Doctor Franz Huebling

1952-07-29 6.275

Affair in Trinidad

A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer. ...
Genre :Romance, Thriller, Mystery

Joachim

1978-12-17 6

The Nativity

The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas. ...
Genre :Drama, History, Family

John James Audubon

1952-11-19 4.8

The Iron Mistress

In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. J ...
Genre :History, Drama, Action, Western, Romance

Player King

1964-09-23 6.5

Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience. ...
Genre :

Dr. Nicholas Holnar

1974-02-24 5.8

Man on a Swing

A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only to the pol ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Mystery

Pepík

1932-10-14 7

Your Money or Your Life

A czech film that focuses on an unfaithful husband who married in to money, as well as an impoverished man who is turns to theft. ...
Genre :Comedy

Peter Skagska

1980-01-06 0

Skag

Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Shabby Old Man

1966-07-15 5.9

Mister Buddwing

An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

1932-01-15 7

Powder and Petrol

The Voskovec and Werich duo play a peculiar pair - a clumsy coach driver and an equally clumsy traffic policeman, who both fall in love with a young actress. Although their ludicrous courtship does no ...
Genre :Comedy

kamelot

1937-07-30 6.8

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 named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats stir up trouble in what is obviously the Sudetenlan ...
Genre :Comedy

1934-10-26 7

Heave-Ho!

A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still owns a half-finished apartment-house. They rally the ...
Genre :Comedy

první žoldnéř

1960-06-13 6.2

Těžká Barbora

Genre :Drama

Willie

1980-06-25 0

Happy Days

Winnie, a woman in her fifties, is buried waist-deep in a mound of scorched earth, with just a large, black shopping bag and a collapsed parasol. Behind her and hidden from view sleeps Willie. ...
Genre :

1939-03-13 0

Crisis

A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2. ...
Genre :Documentary

Gus Michaels

1971-02-25 10

Paradise Lost

Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them and the people running with them. Opened on Broadwa ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Juror #11

1954-09-20 8.1

Twelve Angry Men

Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for t ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

1972-04-15 0

Particular Men

A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows several government scientists as they develop the atomic bomb, grapple with the morality of their work, an ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Dr. Gerald Finney

1980-10-02 7.505

Somewhere in Time

Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Romance

1966-12-02 0

An Enemy of the People

Set in a Norwegian hamlet, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's hot springs are contaminated. But with the community relying on the spa for tourist dollars, his warning to the powers-that ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Steve Pandish

1959-01-22 0

The Velvet Alley

Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Comedy, Crime

Gus Steimmetz

1958-06-25 6.549

The Bravados

Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to ...
Genre :Western

Aaron Nathanson

1958-09-11 6.1

Wind Across the Everglades

Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden who arrives in Florida to enforce conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted against Cottonmouth, the leader of a fierce group of bir ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Doctor

1967-01-01 0

The Desperate Ones

In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their tail. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Juror 11

1957-04-10 8.548

12 Angry Men

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and sh ...
Genre :Drama

Pavli

1952-04-03 0

Anything Can Happen

A quirky relationship unfolds between an immigrant and an all-American folk music fan. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Dr. Herman Einstein

1962-02-05 6.5

Arsenic & Old Lace

1962 telefilm adaptation of the classic American play about a deranged family and the string of murders they flippantly commit ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Comedy

1928-01-27 0

Ve spárech upíra

Genre :Drama

1929-12-06 0

Paní Katynka z vaječného trhu

Genre :Romance, Drama

Paul Kaminios

1974-04-19 0

Nicky's World

A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma of repossession and property without destroying i ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

1926-12-25 0

Pohádka máje

A lyrical tale of the pure, vernal romance between a diffident, somewhat naive girl from a rural backwater and a fairly dissolute, but kind-hearted law student from Prague. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

1927-01-01 0

Dcerušky paní Petersenové

Genre :

Voinitsky (Uncle Vanya)

1957-12-13 6

Uncle Vanya

A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chekhov's play set in czarist Russia. ...
Genre :Drama

Willy Brower

1961-09-19 4.7

Cain's Hundred

A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top criminals to justice. ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Holman

1965-09-19 5.5

The F.B.I.

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Norman Cargill

1968-09-20 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Prof. Johann von Bunow

1958-09-30 5.5

Naked City

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure

1967-09-16 6.7

Mannix

Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title chara ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Drama

Juror #11

1948-11-07 5

Studio One

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the an ...
Genre :Drama

Max

1953-02-01 6.25

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Rel ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1966-09-17 7.6

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible M ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

1959-09-10 5.6

Johnny Staccato

Jazz pianist Johnny Staccato supplements his meager musician's income by working as a private detective. The background for many of the episodes is his friend "Waldo's" jazz club in New York City's Gr ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Dr. Einstein

1951-12-24 8.571

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of tel ...
Genre :Drama

Colonel Zabian

1965-09-13 7.2

Run for Your Life

Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had p ...
Genre :Drama

1963-10-02 0

Espionage

Espionage is a 1963 Associated Television series, distributed outside the UK by ITC Entertainment and networked in the United States by NBC. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Max Bodin

1963-09-17 7.2

The Fugitive

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Lehman

1975-09-09 6.7

Switch

Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

1950-01-30 5.571

Robert Montgomery Presents

Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, ...
Genre :Drama

Fritz Brenner

1981-12-24 7.4

Nero Wolfe

Nero Wolfe is a television series based on the characters in Rex Stout's classic series of detective stories that aired January 16 – August 25, 1981, on NBC. William Conrad fills the role of the detec ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Dr. Charles Hodiak

1961-09-27 5.528

Dr. Kildare

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal ...
Genre :Drama

Louis Astor

1961-09-16 6.2

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as ne ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Leo Ladzlow

1961-09-16 6.2

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as ne ...
Genre :Drama

1959-10-02 6.667

The Third Man

Genre :Drama

Prof. Thielman

1963-09-18 7

Channing

Professor Joe Howe is a Korean War veteran who is hired to teach English at Channing College. The dean Fred Baker is his mentor as Howe is writing a novel about his experiences. They are frequently in ...
Genre :Drama

Jack Selken

1958-09-30 5.5

Naked City

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure

George Havelik

1965-09-19 5.5

The F.B.I.

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mr. Goldstein

1979-02-18 7.4

Roots: The Next Generations

Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdal ...
Genre :Drama

Durkin

1968-09-20 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Zarodin

1948-11-07 5

Studio One

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the an ...
Genre :Drama

Von Schwendi

1948-11-07 5

Studio One

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the an ...
Genre :Drama

Cardinal Bellarmin

1951-12-24 8.571

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of tel ...
Genre :Drama

self

2005-01-01 0

Tři strážníci

Genre :Documentary

Elek Odry

1959-10-12 0

Play of the Week

This syndicated anthology series staged a different play every week covering all genres, dramas, comedies, musicals, fantasies, mysteries, et al, utilizing some of the best talent appearing on Broadwa ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

self

2012-01-01 0

Voskovec & Werich, paralelní osudy

Genre :Documentary

Angus Ferguson

1972-09-23 6.945

The Streets of San Francisco

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learn ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure

Kovac

1948-11-07 5

Studio One

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the an ...
Genre :Drama

Charles Tarasovich

1959-10-15 7.9

The Untouchables

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Dr. Bensinger

1963-10-04 5.714

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variet ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Talk

Willie

1971-01-28 5.556

Great Performances

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performan ...
Genre :Comedy, Documentary, Drama

Herman Kihn

1959-10-15 7.9

The Untouchables

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Nicolas Yellich

1964-09-18 7.263

12 O'Clock High

This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible General Frank Savage--and late ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

George Kazar

1963-09-15 7.667

Arrest and Trial

Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama