George Voskovec
Jiří Voskovec (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈvoskovɛts]) (born Jiří Wachsmann; June 19, 1905 – July 1, 1981), known in the United States as George Voskovec, was a Czech-American actor. Throughout much of his career, he was associated with actor and playwright Jan Werich. In the U.S., he is known for his role as the polite Juror #11 in the 1957 film 12 Angry Men.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.12 |
| Birthday | 1905-06-19 |
| Place of Birth | Sázava, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic] |
| Also Known As | Jiří Voskovec, Jiří Wachsmann, Jiri Voskovec, Petr Dolan , F. Formen, Иржи Восковец, Петр Долан, Джордже Восковец, |
1957
The 27th Day
6.2/30
Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien saucer, where an alien gives each a conta...
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The 27th Day
1960
BUtterfield 8
6.3/90
Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into...
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BUtterfield 8
1982
Barbarosa
5.8/38
Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbaro...
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Barbarosa
1968
The Boston Strangler
6.8/220
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through...
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The Boston Strangler
1965
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
7.1/296
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one...
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1973
The Iceman Cometh
6.1/27
Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props...
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The Iceman Cometh
1952
Affair in Trinidad
6.3/50
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
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Affair in Trinidad
1978
The Nativity
6/1
The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.
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The Nativity
1952
The Iron Mistress
4.8/11
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse'...
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The Iron Mistress
1964
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
6.5/4
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but perf...
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Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
1974
Man on a Swing
5.8/26
A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is...
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Man on a Swing
1932
Your Money or Your Life
7/3
A czech film that focuses on an unfaithful husband who married in to money, as well as an impoverished man who is turns to theft.
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Your Money or Your Life
1980
Skag
0/0
Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life...
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Skag
1966
Mister Buddwing
5.9/13
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
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Mister Buddwing
1932
Powder and Petrol
7/2
The Voskovec and Werich duo play a peculiar pair - a clumsy coach driver and an equally clumsy traffic policeman, who both fall in love with a young a...
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Powder and Petrol
1937
The World Belongs to Us
6.8/4
One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats s...
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The World Belongs to Us
1960
Těžká Barbora
6.2/3
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Těžká Barbora
1934
Heave-Ho!
7/8
A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still ow...
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Heave-Ho!
1980
Happy Days
0/0
Winnie, a woman in her fifties, is buried waist-deep in a mound of scorched earth, with just a large, black shopping bag and a collapsed parasol. Behi...
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Happy Days
1939
Crisis
0/0
A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2.
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Crisis
1971
Paradise Lost
10/0
Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them a...
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Paradise Lost
1954
Twelve Angry Men
8.1/39
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 S...
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Twelve Angry Men
1972
Particular Men
0/0
A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows several government scientists as they develop the atomic...
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Particular Men
1980
Somewhere in Time
7.5/590
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to fi...
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Somewhere in Time
1966
An Enemy of the People
0/0
Set in a Norwegian hamlet, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's hot springs are contaminated. But with the community relying on the spa f...
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An Enemy of the People
1959
The Velvet Alley
0/0
Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.
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The Velvet Alley
1958
The Bravados
6.553/132
Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts...
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The Bravados
1958
Wind Across the Everglades
6.1/26
Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden who arrives in Florida to enforce conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted agains...
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Wind Across the Everglades
1967
The Desperate Ones
0/0
In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their...
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The Desperate Ones
1957
12 Angry Men
8.547/8962
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of m...
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12 Angry Men
1952
Anything Can Happen
0/0
A quirky relationship unfolds between an immigrant and an all-American folk music fan.
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Anything Can Happen
1962
Arsenic & Old Lace
6.5/2
1962 telefilm adaptation of the classic American play about a deranged family and the string of murders they flippantly commit
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Arsenic & Old Lace
1929
Paní Katynka z vaječného trhu
0/0
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Paní Katynka z vaječného trhu
1928
Ve spárech upíra
0/0
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Ve spárech upíra
1974
Nicky's World
0/0
A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma...
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Nicky's World
1926
Pohádka máje
0/0
A lyrical tale of the pure, vernal romance between a diffident, somewhat naive girl from a rural backwater and a fairly dissolute, but kind-hearted la...
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Pohádka máje
1927
Dcerušky paní Petersenové
0/0
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1957
Uncle Vanya
6/1
A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chekhov's play set in czarist Russia.
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