Jiří Sovák
Biography
Jiří Sovák was a Czech actor born Jiří Schmitzer on December 27, 1920, to an innkeeper family in Prague. He adopted the surname Sovák as a protest against Nazi Germany's occupation of Czechoslovakia and went on to graduate from the Prague State Conservatory in 1941. Sovák gained recognition for his comedic roles, including Klaus Abbard in "Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea" (1977) and Reditel in "90 Degrees in the Shade" (1965).