Karel Effa
Acting • Born 1922-05-23 – Died 1993-06-11
Biography
Karel Effa, originally named Karel Effenberger (May 23, 1922 in Prague - June 11, 1993 in Prague), was a Czech actor. As a professional soldier during World War II, he served in the Government Army during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which was deployed to Italy. Here he later ran to the Czechoslovak troops fighting on the side of the Western Allies. After the war, he remained in the army with the rank of sergeant, playing and singing for two years in the newly formed Army Art Ensemble of Vít Nejedlý. From there he went to the Theater of Satire, from there to the Theater of State Film, from there to the Music Theater in Karlín, from where he briefly jumped to the ABC Theater to return to the Karlín Theater. He has been a member of the Semafor Theater since 1979. Karel Effa was a very prominent comedian who created 71 smaller and episodic film roles during his life - such as the villain Pancho Kid in the Czech comedy Lemonade Joe or Horse Opera, the black Gustav in Zeman's famous film The Stolen Airship, or the treasure keeper in the fairy tale film Proud princess. Karel Effa worked for many years as a member of the Czechoslovak State Film Ensemble, resp. Film studio in Barrandov, he also performed in the Theater in Fidlovačka, or in the former musical theater in Prague's Nusle, he also worked in the post-war Theater of Satire. In addition to performing in theater and film, he has given six thousand touring performances during his lifetime, where he has used his folk humor, playing the guitar and singing tramp songs. He also remained a hiker all his life, he went to Brdy, often to the settlement of Ztracenka. In 1964, he became a founding member of the Department of Friends and Supporters of Slavia, which aimed to save and lift football Slavia, which at the time lived in the Second Football League.
Filmography
98 credits
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
Movie • 1978
špeh
Lemonade Joe
Movie • 1964
Pancho Kid
Koncert pro mantinely
Movie • 1977
Pozor, ide Jozefína...
Movie • 1977
The Proud Princess
Movie • 1952
Strážce pokladu
Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem
Movie • 1980
On the Comet
Movie • 1970
kaprál Ben
S Pydlou v zádech
Movie • 1985
komorník
Who Wants to Kill Jessie?
Movie • 1966
Pistolník
May Stars
Movie • 1959
The Princess with the Golden Star
Movie • 1959
pobočník Kazisvěta
Věčná Slavia
Movie • 2016
Black Saturday
Movie • 1961
cestující ve vlaku
The Jester's Tale
Movie • 1964
Captain Varga
Long Live Ghosts!
Movie • 1977
Mládek
The Pipes
Movie • 1966
The Wishing Machine
Movie • 1968
Hudba z Marsu
Movie • 1955
Kulhánek, hráč na cello a kytaru
Pražská romance
Movie • 1969
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
Movie • 1970
Sám proti městu
Movie • 1974
Straw Hat
Movie • 1972
Paní Liška
Movie • 1988
otec
Zpívající přístavy
Movie • 1971
Affairs of my Wife
Movie • 1973
A Night at Karlstein
Movie • 1974
Almost King
Movie • 1977
Tlouštík
Movie • 1961
The Stolen Border
Movie • 1947
závodčí
The Borrowed Face
Movie • 1965
lupič Hmaták
...and again that Lucy!
Movie • 1984
Electrician
Distant Journey
Movie • 1949
Gas Chamber Builder (uncredited)
Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval
Movie • 1985
Self - Actor
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling
Movie • 1971
majitel baru Kovarski
Bulldogs and Cherries
Movie • 1981
Amadeus
Movie • 1984
Leporello
The Feather Fairy
Movie • 1985
Troupe Principal
Byt je vykraden, maminko...
Movie • 1984
The False Prince
Movie • 1985
Vizier
Růžový Hubert
Movie • 1986
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
Movie • 1962
důstojník pevnostní stráže
The Lost Photography
Movie • 1960
When the Cat Comes
Movie • 1964
Janek
A Great Road Ahead
Movie • 1963
archduke
Marcelka
Movie • 1971
Florenc 13,30
Movie • 1957
Karel Koníček
Circus in the Circus
Movie • 1976
Veterinary
The Stolen Airship
Movie • 1967
Agent 13
Muž v povětří
Movie • 1956
listonoš
Of Things Supernatural
Movie • 1959
(segment "Tajemství písma")
You Are a Widow, Sir
Movie • 1971
zřízenec na patologii
The Terribly Sad Princess
Movie • 1968
nápadník
Rodinné trampoty oficiála Tříšky
Movie • 1949
sedlák
The Ninth Heart
Movie • 1979
Lackey
Florián
Movie • 1961
kostelník Kalina
Zlatá svatba
Movie • 1972
drobný chovatel Choleva
The Circus Will Be
Movie • 1954
Every Penny Counts
Movie • 1961
A Star Travels South
Movie • 1964
Egon Zejda - guitarist
Pan Novák
Movie • 1949
Vašek Kunc
Good-for-Nothing
Movie • 1978
Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy
Movie • 1952
Porotce
Kidnapped
Movie • 1953
american journalist
Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph
Movie • 1956
Sons of the Mountains
Movie • 1956
A co ten ruksak, králi?
Movie • 1986
Ticho! Ticho! Ticho!
Movie • 1963
Martin and Nine Fools
Movie • 1966
Nobody Knows Anything
Movie • 1947
Parohy
Movie • 1947
Portáši
Movie • 1947
The Last of the Mohicans
Movie • 1947
The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
Movie • 1961
Svatební cesta aneb Ještě ne, Evžene!
Movie • 1966
The Musician
Movie • 1948
Ves v pohraničí
Movie • 1948
Jarda
Sign of the Anchor
Movie • 1947
Red Lizard
Movie • 1949
Old Ironside
Movie • 1948
Ztracená revue
Movie • 1961
Zrcadlo na vesnici 3
Movie • 1949
Zrcadlo byrokratické 2
Movie • 1949
Nad námi svítá
Movie • 1953
Pochodně
Movie • 1961
Warden in prison
...and again that Lucy!
Movie • 1984
Three Men Travelling
Movie • 1973
Secret of the Chinese Carnation
Movie • 1964
Blinky
Figurky ze šmantů
Movie • 1988
Náhodou je príma!
Movie • 1988
Setkání s Hansem Sachsem
Movie • 1954
Bakaláři
TV • 1972
Dnes v jednom domě
TV • 1980
Mánek
Pan Tau
TV • 1970
Klapzubova jedenáctka
TV • 1968
Thirty Cases of Major Zema
TV • 1976
The Flying Cestmir
TV • 1984
Nemocnice na kraji města
TV • 1978
Ze staré drogerie
TV • 1983
Tauben Sr.