Vladimír Ptáček

Vladimír Ptáček

Born: October 29, 1926
Died: December 5, 1985
in Lovčice u Čáslavi, Československo
Herec Vladimír Ptáček byl rodákem ze středočeského venkova a profesionální pouť po českých divadlech zahájil hned po skončení války bez odborného vzdělání. Jeho první štací bylo Jihočeské divadlo v Českých Budějovicích, následovalo Beskydské divadlo v Hranicích na Moravě a Vesnické divadlo, které pořádalo zájezdová představení po celé republice. Na všech těchto scénách strávil Ptáček jen po jedné sezóně, načež působil v Městském divadle v Novém Boru a v Krajském oblastním divadle v Karlových Varech. Trvalé působiště nakonec našel v Pardubicích a na jevišti zdejšího Východočeského divadla hrál od roku 1955 až do svého předčasného úmrtí.

Celoživotní mimopražské angažmá do značné míry omezilo Ptáčkovy možnosti širšího uplatnění ve filmu, přesto jeho filmografie zahrnuje bezmála čtyřicet titulů a v šedesátých letech vystoupil hned v několika zásadních dílech československé kinematografie. Na filmovém plátně debutoval nevelkou postavou diverzanta v dramatu CESTA HLUBOKÝM LESEM (1963). V dnes již legendárním dramatu z konce války KOČÁR DO VÍDNĚ (1966) hrál partyzána, v páralovské adaptaci SOUKROMÁ VICHŘICE (1967) jsme jej mohli vidět v roli hostinského. Ve slavném filmu VŠICHNI DOBŘÍ RODÁCI (1968) se připomněl úlohou řezníka Rabona, nejdůležitější položkou v jeho práci před kamerou se pak stala postava Mlíkaře v Menzelově filmu SKŘIVÁNCI NA NITI (1969).

Kromě zmíněných snímků se jeho jméno objevuje i v titulcích dalších filmů různých žánrů, dnes již méně známých. V dekádě sedmdesátých let byl ke spolupráci pravidelně zván tvůrci dětských filmů a hrál například v dodnes populárních titulech jako DÍVKA NA KOŠTĚTI (1971) nebo PÁNI KLUCI (1975), menší role odehrál také v několika kriminálkách. Jeho poslední filmovou rolí byla postava mlynáře Budila v dnes již zapomenutém povídkovém filmu PLACHÉ PŘÍBĚHY (1982).

Vladimír Ptáček zemřel 5. prosince 1985 ve věku 59 let.

Movies for Vladimír Ptáček...

The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night
Title: The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night
Released: June 1, 1990
Type: Movie
An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the stationmaster. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes hold and everyone’s worst instincts are released. Interrogations, the abolition of rights and the search for scapegoats ultimately lead to murder
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Larks on a String
Title: Larks on a String
Character: Mlíkar
Released: February 1, 1990
Type: Movie
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
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Příště budeme chytřejší, staroušku!
Title: Příště budeme chytřejší, staroušku!
Released: December 31, 1982
Type: Movie
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Plaché příběhy
Title: Plaché příběhy
Character: (segment "Rekord")
Released: July 9, 1982
Type: Movie
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Dostih
Title: Dostih
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: Movie
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Konečná stanice
Title: Konečná stanice
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
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Don't Call Me Major
Title: Don't Call Me Major
Character: Mojdl
Released: December 4, 1981
Type: Movie
A group of children is trying to solve a mystery related to the diamonds smuggling.
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Hodina života
Title: Hodina života
Released: June 5, 1981
Type: Movie
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Brontosaurus
Title: Brontosaurus
Released: August 22, 1980
Type: Movie
Tomás lives in a very small Czech town and is a nature lover and a birdwatcher. He struggles to keep the forests he loves clean and constantly fights his "archenemy" whose sister and Tomás's classmate is secretly in love with him.
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Čas pracuje pro vraha
Title: Čas pracuje pro vraha
Released: February 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she worked. Police captain Marha (Frantisek Nemec), who is leading the investigation, is informed by Simandl that on the day of the murder Vera promised to bring home fifty thousand crowns to buy a car. Marha's primary suspects are the three men working at the agency: deputy editor-in-chief Brandl (Jirí Pleskot) and editors Pernata (Eduard Cupák) and Remes (Ludek Munzar, and of course also Simandl.
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Diagnóza smrti
Title: Diagnóza smrti
Released: December 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Honza Linhart, who had an accident, and a young woman found unconscious in a forest by a man picking mushrooms. The woman is identified as Katerina Marková, the divorced mother of a young girl. Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) suspects that she is a victim of mugging since a bloodstained small ax has been found near the site of the crime and, according to witnesses, Ms Marková was missing her watch and a bracelet, from which a gemstone has also been discovered. Linhart has lost his only kidney in the accident; in order to live a normal life again, he will need a kidney transplant from the mugged woman if she dies.
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Vražedné pochybnosti
Title: Vražedné pochybnosti
Released: June 29, 1979
Type: Movie
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Střepy pro Evu
Title: Střepy pro Evu
Released: May 18, 1979
Type: Movie
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Hněv
Title: Hněv
Released: October 6, 1978
Type: Movie
Sunday in September 1977, a celebration of the Miners Day. The old Hepnar is sitting at the cemetery and is recalling events from ten years ago. That time the representative of the ministry Barvír announced at the miners meeting that mining in the mines would decrease. He reasoned this decision by the fact the deposits of coal are almost used up. The boss of the mine and most of the miners protested. Barvír did not take their critical objections into account. He announced at the communist district meeting the closure of the business as the mine according to new economic principles did not prosper.
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Vítězný lid
Title: Vítězný lid
Released: February 17, 1978
Type: Movie
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Tichý Američan v Praze
Title: Tichý Američan v Praze
Released: January 20, 1978
Type: Movie
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Pasiáns
Title: Pasiáns
Released: December 23, 1977
Type: Movie
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The Liberation of Prague
Title: The Liberation of Prague
Released: May 6, 1977
Type: Movie
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discusses with his commanders how to transform the city into an impregnable fortress, but the Praguers do not intend to wait any longer. From the early hours of 4th of May people start assembling in the streets and tearing down German signs. On the next day, the 5th of May, the uprising begins.
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Boty plné vody
Title: Boty plné vody
Character: (segment "Zimní vítr 1951")
Released: December 17, 1976
Type: Movie
Three short stories ("Zelenáči 1945", "Silvestr 1948" and "Zimní vítr 1951") about members of the SNB units guarding the Šumava border in the post-war years. Ivo Toman had artistic supervision over the debutants. The theme of the third short story was made in 1959 for the film "Entry Forbidden" by František Vláčil, who was also starting at the time.
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Odysseus and the Stars
Title: Odysseus and the Stars
Character: Svatebcan
Released: September 3, 1976
Type: Movie
A group of children are investigating a chain of mysterious events during the seventies.
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Boys Will Be Boys
Title: Boys Will Be Boys
Character: Peasant
Released: March 19, 1976
Type: Movie
Three friends - Tomás, Hubert and Jozka - are boys growing up in a little town. Tomás lives with his aunt Apolena and uncle Václav. Tomás is a boy with lots of ideas that often end up getting him into trouble not only with his teachers and aunt, but with the other inhabitants of the town as well. He has a crush on his schoolmate Blanka and for her sake he decides to try to get the prize for the best pupil in the school.
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Hřiště
Title: Hřiště
Released: February 20, 1976
Type: Movie
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Dva muži hlásí příchod
Title: Dva muži hlásí příchod
Character: Maj. Havlasa
Released: September 26, 1975
Type: Movie
An only son, Jirí Valenta (Jaromír Hanzlík), has been drafted to the army. At the barracks he acquires the nickname Seamstress because he sews rugs in his spare time. One day, his friend introduces him to Julka Vávrová (Jorga Kotrbová), a girl he is desperate to get rid of. The naive Jirí falls in love with the girl and accepts her invitation to spend Easter together in the country. There he learns that the girl is the single mother of the young boy Martínek, whose father is the married tractor driver.
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Kateřina a její děti
Title: Kateřina a její děti
Released: September 19, 1975
Type: Movie
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Zbraně pro Prahu
Title: Zbraně pro Prahu
Released: May 2, 1975
Type: Movie
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How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer
Title: How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer
Released: March 1, 1975
Type: Movie
There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. And the only way is to drown Dr. Mrácek, who is responsible for the demolition. But he falls in love with Wassermann's niece Jana. He changes to fish, is mistaken for water spirit from Germany, is drowned and revived again. The other problem is the flour with ears... and so on...
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Adam and Otka
Title: Adam and Otka
Released: April 26, 1974
Type: Movie
On the holidays, ten years old Adam and his little sister Otka, four years junior to him, travel from a village Vykán to their aunt to Prague. Their parents left for Hungary to the world championship in ploughing. The children have the address but they do not know the way to the Northern Town. They set out for a place on foot, across the historical parts of the town.
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Výstřely v Mariánských Lázních
Title: Výstřely v Mariánských Lázních
Released: February 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Film by Toman and Gajer.
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Days of Betrayal
Title: Days of Betrayal
Released: April 27, 1973
Type: Movie
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
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Rodeo
Title: Rodeo
Released: January 26, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Girl on the Broomstick
Title: The Girl on the Broomstick
Character: taxikář
Released: September 8, 1972
Type: Movie
A teenage witch, Saxana (Petra Černocká), frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, finds herself in a modern world.
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Chance
Title: Chance
Released: June 11, 1971
Type: Movie
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The Key
Title: The Key
Released: May 14, 1971
Type: Movie
Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
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Tvář pod maskou
Title: Tvář pod maskou
Released: January 8, 1971
Type: Movie
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Lišáci – Myšáci a Šibeničák
Title: Lišáci – Myšáci a Šibeničák
Released: October 30, 1970
Type: Movie
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On the Trail of Blood
Title: On the Trail of Blood
Character: poručík VB Vlach
Released: March 27, 1970
Type: Movie
Major Kalas from the Prague criminal intelligence service has been sent to a small town of Dubá in North Bohemia to help with the investigation of the puzzling death of a child. A gypsy boy has been killed three weeks ago and his body found under a rock. As the investigation continues, another dead boy is found. The boy has bled to death after someone cut his artery with a handsaw. Both deaths are obviously the work of a murderer - a perverted pedophile, sadist who gets sexual satisfaction from the sight of a young boy's blood.
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All My Good Countrymen
Title: All My Good Countrymen
Released: July 4, 1969
Type: Movie
The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.
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Private Torment
Title: Private Torment
Released: December 22, 1967
Type: Movie
A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that she’s having an affair with his boss, he devises one elaborate plot after another to murder the rival, each time with pathetic results.
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Carriage to Vienna
Title: Carriage to Vienna
Character: Guerilla
Released: November 11, 1966
Type: Movie
A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.
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The Pipes
Title: The Pipes
Released: August 30, 1966
Type: Movie
This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped to the electric chair that he realizes that this is his last live scene. The second episode has the wife of an elderly British nobleman having an affair with the young gamekeeper of their estate. Part three finds a peasant woman taking a lover when her husband goes off to fight the war.
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Dva tygři
Title: Dva tygři
Released: June 3, 1966
Type: Movie
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The Sheriff Behind Bars
Title: The Sheriff Behind Bars
Character: Investigator
Released: March 4, 1966
Type: Movie
A dramatic story from the setting of a youth de tention center. Youngster Jakub, out of delusory solidarity, gets convicted of theft and goes to prison in place ofthe "sheriff" of his gang. He naively hopes that the sheriff will appreciate his gesture and leaves the stolen goods in a safe hideaway to later divide them fairly among the gang members. This conviction gives Jakub the strength to endure the unbearable conditions in the center. But reality is often much harsher than naive ideals and hollow relations in the gang.
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Passing Through a Thick Forest
Title: Passing Through a Thick Forest
Released: April 10, 1964
Type: Movie
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Defendant
Title: Defendant
Released: February 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.