Jan Triska or Jan TÅ™Ãska (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan
ˈtrÌ ÌŠiË ska]; 4 November 1936 â€" 25 September 2017) was a Czech
actor. He played Captain Henry Wirz in the American television film
Andersonville.TÅ™Ãska was born in Prague. Prior to immigrating, first
to Canada (Vancouver, BC) then to the U.S., he performed numerous
roles in both theater and film. He had two daughters, Karla and Jana,
with actress Karla Chadimová, and also had a grandson named
Augustin.After signing the Charter 77 proclamation, he emigrated to
the United States via Cyprus. His most notable film role in the U.S.
was probably that of Milos, the loyal butler and personal assistant to
Mr. Terry Silver, in The Karate Kid Part III. He also played the
assassin in Miloš Forman's The People vs. Larry Flynt, and appeared
in Highlander: The Series (season 5, episode 10), Highlander: The
Raven, Blizzard, The Osterman Weekend, Ronin, Apt Pupil (as Isaac
Weiskopf), and the sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science fiction
epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, Peter Hyams' 2010: The Year We Make
Contact, among many others.After the Velvet Revolution of 1989,
TÅ™Ãska visited the Czech Republic to perform in movies such as The
Elementary School (1991), Horem pádem (2004), the Academy Award
nominated Želary (2003) and Máj (2008; based on the poem Máj by
Karel Hynek Mácha). In 2002, TÅ™Ãska received an Alfréd Radok Award
for his performance as Lear in King Lear at the Summer Shakespeare
Festival at Prague Castle.
ˈtrÌ ÌŠiË ska]; 4 November 1936 â€" 25 September 2017) was a Czech
actor. He played Captain Henry Wirz in the American television film
Andersonville.TÅ™Ãska was born in Prague. Prior to immigrating, first
to Canada (Vancouver, BC) then to the U.S., he performed numerous
roles in both theater and film. He had two daughters, Karla and Jana,
with actress Karla Chadimová, and also had a grandson named
Augustin.After signing the Charter 77 proclamation, he emigrated to
the United States via Cyprus. His most notable film role in the U.S.
was probably that of Milos, the loyal butler and personal assistant to
Mr. Terry Silver, in The Karate Kid Part III. He also played the
assassin in Miloš Forman's The People vs. Larry Flynt, and appeared
in Highlander: The Series (season 5, episode 10), Highlander: The
Raven, Blizzard, The Osterman Weekend, Ronin, Apt Pupil (as Isaac
Weiskopf), and the sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science fiction
epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, Peter Hyams' 2010: The Year We Make
Contact, among many others.After the Velvet Revolution of 1989,
TÅ™Ãska visited the Czech Republic to perform in movies such as The
Elementary School (1991), Horem pádem (2004), the Academy Award
nominated Želary (2003) and Máj (2008; based on the poem Máj by
Karel Hynek Mácha). In 2002, TÅ™Ãska received an Alfréd Radok Award
for his performance as Lear in King Lear at the Summer Shakespeare
Festival at Prague Castle.
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