Portrait of Oldřich Kaiser

Oldřich Kaiser

Acting

Biography

He has starred in many films in his long career. Recent films include Dark Blue World, Shark in the Head and Handcuffs. He also plays the lead role in Menzel's adaptation of Hrabal's I Served the King of England. He is also famous for his roles in TV series such as 30 Cases of Major Zeman and Hospital on the Edge of Town. He has also appeared in many TV shows such as Maybe the Magician Will Come or the improvisational Russian Roulette as a well-known comedy duo with Jiří Lábus. Together they also made the long-running radio improvisation series The Tlučhořovi, which reached eight hundred episodes in November 2007, and the successful TV show Zeměkoule. A species of shoebill (Cychrus kaiseri) is named after him, which he discovered together with entomologist and neurosurgeon Vladimir Benes in the summer of 2004 in Asia. From 1980 to 2005, his wife was the Czech actress Naďa Konvalinková. Since 2020, his wife has been the singer-songwriter Dáša Vokatá. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oldřich Kaiser, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: May 16, 1955

Place of Birth: Liberec, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Filmography

2024
The Gardener's Year

as zahradník

2022
2022
Cirkus Maximum

as Giorgio

2022
The Last Race

as Emerich Rath

2019
Loaded Eels

as Robert

2017
Barefoot

as Eda's Uncle Vlk

2017
A Prominent Patient

as Edvard Beneš

2016
Red Captain

as 'Red Captain'

2016
Crazy Kingdom

as Ponocný

2016
Na vodě

as Bohumil Kundera

2015
Chasing Fifty

as děda Bulán

2015
Aldabra: Once Upon an Island

as Narrator (voice)

2015
Wilson City

as vypravěč

2014
2013
2013
Clownwise

as Max

2013
The Hussites

as Mlhoš

2013
The Czech Century

as Oskar Krejčí

2012
Zpátky se Sobotou

as Self (archive footage)

2012
2010
Kooky

as bezdomovec

2010
Walking Too Fast

as major Janeček

2009
2009
Palachův týden

as Commentary (voice)

2008
You Kiss Like a God

as František

2008
Opravdová láska

as Ivan Holý

2007
2004
2003
Smart Philip

as Gangster

2001
Dark Blue World

as Jan Machatý

1994
Amerika

as Delamarche

1991
Vyžilý Boudník

as Oldřich Kaiser

1991
1986
Cuddling Cat Ears

as John (voice)

1986
It's Not Me

as Oskar Majer

1986
The Pied Piper

as (voice)

1984
Rumburak

as ing. Zachariáš

1982
Goodbye, Medeo

as Choreographer's assistant

1981
Měsíční tónina

as Johannes Brahms

1979
Kam nikdo nesmí

as Michal (voice)

1978
Meeting in July

as Jakub Hejna

1977
1976
Birlibán

as (voice)

1973
Love

as Petr