Oldřich Lipský

Oldřich Lipský
Born	(1924-07-04)4 July 1924 Pelhřimov, Czechoslovakia
Died	19 October 1986(1986-10-19) (aged 62) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Occupation(s)	Film director, Actor, Screenwriter
Years active	1946–1984

Oldřich Lipský (4 July 1924 – 19 October 1986) was a Czech film director and screenwriter, brother of actor Lubomír Lipský.

All his films were comedies, frequently employing themes of Dadaism, farce and magical realism. He was a frequent collaborator with actor Miloš Kopecký, who appeared in most of his works.

He was creating film before, during and after the Prague Spring.

Selected filmography

• Thunder in the Hills (1946)
• The Hen and the Sexton (1951)
• Haškovy povídky ze starého mocnářství (1952)
• Cirkus bude! (1954)
• Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph (1955)
• Hvězda jede na jih (1958)
• Man in Outer Space (1962)
• Lemonade Joe (1964)
• Happy End (1967)
• I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1969)
• Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1971)
• Straw Hat (1971)
• Circus in the Circus (1974)
• Jáchyme, hoď ho do stroje! (1974)
• Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
• Dinner for Adele (1977)
• Long Live Ghosts! (1977)
• The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981)
• Srdečný pozdrav ze zeměkoule (1983)
• The Three Veterans (1984)

External links

• Oldřich Lipský at IMDb
• Biography (in Czech)