Jan Pivec

{{short description|Czech actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox person | image = Jan Pivec.jpg | name = Jan Pivec | birth_date = {{birth date|1907|5|19|df=y}} | birth_place = Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary | death_date = {{death date and age|1980|5|10|1907|5|19|df=y}} | death_place = Prague, Czechoslovakia | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1940–1973 }}

'''Jan Pivec''' (19 May 1907 – 10 May 1980) was a Czech film and stage actor.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jan Pivec |url=https://www.csfd.cz/tvurce/4791-jan-pivec/prehled/ |website=csfd |publisher=ČSFD|language=cs|accessdate=26 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Jan Pivec |url=http://archiv.narodni-divadlo.cz/umelec/3220 |website=archiv.narodni-divadlo.cz |publisher=National Theatre (Prague) |language=cs |accessdate=26 August 2021 |archive-date=24 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624201606/http://archiv.narodni-divadlo.cz/umelec/3220 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He appeared in more than 69 films between 1940 and 1973.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jan Pivec |url=https://www.fdb.cz/lidi/21156.html|work=Filmová Databáze|language=cs|accessdate=26 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Jan Pivec |url=https://www.kinobox.cz/osoba/21156-jan-pivec |website=kinobox.cz |publisher=Kinobox|language=cs|accessdate=26 August 2021}}</ref><ref name="ct">{{cite web |title=Tělo slovem... (Jan Pivec) |url=https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10123383458-pribehy-slavnych-jan-pivec/411235100211006-telo-slovem/video/ |website=ceskatelevize.cz |publisher=Czech Television|language=cs|accessdate=26 August 2021}}</ref> He concurrently spent 36 years acting in productions staged by Prague's National Theatre.<ref name="ct"/> Books published in 1989,<ref>{{cite book |last=Kudělka|first=Viktor|date=1989|title=Jan Pivec|language=cs|publisher=Československý filmový ústav}}</ref> and in 2006, detailed his career.<ref>{{cite book |last=Laňka |first=David |date=2006 |title=Jan Pivec - známý neznámý |trans-title=Jan Pivec - known unknown|language=cs |location=Prague |publisher=Petrklíč |isbn=80-7229-154-8}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''Delightful Story'' (1936) * ''Filosofská historie'' (1937) * ''Pantáta Bezoušek'' (1941) * ''The Blue Star Hotel'' (1941) * ''The Dancer'' (1943) * ''Rozina, the Love Child'' (1945) * ''Don't You Know of an Unoccupied Flat?'' (1947) * ''Divá Bára'' (1949) * ''Jan Hus'' (1954) * ''Jan Žižka'' (1955) * ''Against All'' (1956) * ''Zločin a trik II.'' (1967)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pivec, Jan}} Category:1907 births Category:1980 deaths Category:Czech male silent film actors Category:20th-century Czech male actors Category:Czechoslovak male film actors Category:Czechoslovak male stage actors Category:Burials at Vinohrady Cemetery