Karel Dobrý is a Czech film

Film

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, television

Television

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 and stage actor. He is known for playing Liet-Kynes

Liet-Kynes

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 in the Dune

Frank Herbert's Dune

Frank Herbert's Dune is a 2001 3D video game based on the 2000 Sci Fi Channel miniseries of the same name. The game was not a commercial or critical success, and was the last product by Cryo Interactive, which went bankrupt shortly after the game's failure.As Paul, the son of the Duke Atreides's...

2000 miniseries, and Korba in the 2003 sequel Children of Dune, or as Matthias in Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible (film)

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. He also appeared in the award-winning film The Girl of Your Dreams by Fernando Trueba

Fernando Trueba

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.

Biography

He was born 2 May 1969 in Karlovy Vary

Karlovy Vary

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. He was raised in Prague

Prague

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 and spent part of his childhood living in Syria

Syria

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. He speaks Czech

Czech language

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, Russian

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 and English language

English language

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.

Filmography

• Janosik. Prawdziwa historia
  Janosik. Prawdziwa historia
  Janosik. Prawdziwa historia or Jánošík - Pravdivá história is a Polish, Slovak historical film. It was released in 2009....
  
  (2009)
• Jménem krále (2009) – Adalbert of Jestřebí
• We Shoot with Love (2009)
• Ocas ještěrky (2009) – Mr. Čihák
• The Counterpart (2008) – Italian Captain
• Báthory (2008) – Royal Guard Commander
• Flammen & Citronen (2008) – Seibold
• Skeletoni (2007) – Pokálený pán
• Hui Bůh (2006) – Ritter Ottokar
• Krev zmizelého (2005)
• Der neunte Tag (2004) – Reporter Bertram
• NaPolA (2004) – SS-Arzt
• Trosečníci (2003) – Sailor
• Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003) (TV) – Korba
• Krysař
  Krysar
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  (2003) – Devil-Destiny
• Ozone
  Ozone
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  (2003) – Martin Dwyer
• Doctor Zhivago
  Doctor Zhivago
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  (2002) (TV) – Mayakovsky
• Der Liebe entgegen (2002) (TV) – Man of Consulat
• Kráska a netvor (2002) – Sailor
• Szach (2001) – Jakub
• Raften - sie werden dich kriegen (2001) (TV)
• The Mists of Avalon
  The Mists of Avalon
  The Mists of Avalon is a 1983 novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley, in which she relates the Arthurian legends from the perspective of the female characters.-Plot introduction:...
  
  (2001) (TV) – Rhiannon
• Anne Frank: The Whole Story
  Anne Frank: The Whole Story
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  (2001) (TV) – Commandment
• Cabriolet (2001)
• A Knight's Tale (2001) – Flanders King of Arms
• Kytice
  Wild Flowers (film)
  Wild Flowers is a Czech drama film. It was released in 2000. It was directed by F. A. Brabec based on 7 best-known, most epic and least explicitly Christian of Kytice, a collection of ballads by Karel Jaromír Erben; while relatively successful commercially, it was deplored by critics for its crude...
  
  (2000) – King (segment "Zlatý kolovrat")
• Frank Herbert's Dune
  Frank Herbert's Dune
  Frank Herbert's Dune is a 2001 3D video game based on the 2000 Sci Fi Channel miniseries of the same name. The game was not a commercial or critical success, and was the last product by Cryo Interactive, which went bankrupt shortly after the game's failure.As Paul, the son of the Duke Atreides's...
  
  (2000) – Liet-Kynes
  Liet-Kynes
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• Pramen života (2000) – Odillo
• Plunkett & Macleane
  Plunkett & Macleane
  Plunkett & Macleane is a 1999 British historical action comedy film directed by Jake Scott, and starring Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Liv Tyler. It follows the story of Captain James Macleane , and Will Plunkett , two men in eighteenth century Britain who are both struggling to survive...
  
  (1999) – Lewd Young Man
• Zjevení
  Zjevení
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  (1999) – Gallerist
• La niña de tus ojos
  La niña de tus ojos
  The Girl of Your Dreams is a 1998 Spanish drama film produced and directed by Fernando Trueba based on facts: during the Spanish Civil War, cinema studios supported the Republic, so Franco's followers had to go to Germany or Italy to make fictional films at Universum Film AG, known as UFA studios...
  
  (1998) – Leo
• Úsvit (1998) – Karel
• Kinetická encyklopedie všehomíra (1998) TV series
• Mission: Impossible
  Mission: Impossible
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  (1996) – Matthias
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen (1995) (TV) – Göring
• Sacred Cargo (1995) – Barishvili
• Jak si zasloužit princeznu (1995) – Strongest
• UŽ
  Uz
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  (1995) – Butch
• Vlak (1994) – Man in Uniform

Kašpar Theatre Company

• Cyrano de Bergerac
  Cyrano de Bergerac
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  – Christian
• Katynka – Bedřich Veter
• Zelený papoušek – Baltasar

Divadlo Na zábradlí

• Pokojíček – Jiří
• Naši furianti
  Naši furianti
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  – Filip Dubský
• Racek – Trigorin
• Cabaret
  Cabaret
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  – Rudolf Schultz
• Ivanov – Doctor Lvov (Alfréd Radok Awards
  Alfréd Radok Awards
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   from Best Play 1997)
• Táňa, Táňa – Ivanov
• Divadelník – Perruccio
• Story
• Výnosné místo – Zhadov
• Malý Říjen – Juraj Slovák
• Terasa – Maurice
• JE SUiS – Pastor

Antoher Stage Works

• Kudykam – Alternate Role (Státní opera, Prague)
• Skočná
  Skocna
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  – Louis-Ferdinand Céline (MeetFactory, Prague)
• Muži malují – Hubínek (MeetFactory, Prague)
• Jeanne D'Arc – Judge (Divadlo Miriam)
• Lucifer
  Lucifer
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  – Voices (Projekt Perzekuce.cz - Kino Revoluce)
• Na Fidela mi nesahej! – Rene Ernesto Ariza (Experimentální prostor NoD - Klub Roxy, Prague)
• Summit
  Summit
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  – (Městská divadla pražská)
• King Lear
  King Lear
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  (Summer Shakespeare Festival)
• Kanibalové – Medicine Student Klaub (Divadlo Komedie, Činoherní studio, Ústí nad Labem), nominated by Alfréd Radok Awards
  Alfréd Radok Awards
  The Alfréd Radok Awards are presented annually by the Endowment for the Alfréd Radok Awards in collaboration with the Aura–Pont agency and the magazine Svět a Divadlo for achievements in Czech theatre. The prize for Best Performance was first awarded in 1992...
  
  
• Ukřižovaná
• Ostrostřelci: Prostor
• Třetí Řím – Saška
• Rána z milosti – Solingen
• Sud prachu – (Činoherní studio, Ústí nad Labem)
• E. F. B. - Kladivo na divadlo
• Kárný tábor – Condemned Man
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
  The Picture of Dorian Gray
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  – Lord Henry Wotton
• Horníci (Muži tmy) (A studio Rubín)

External links

• Karel Dobrý unofficial website
• Karel Dobrý at the Czechoslovak Film Database