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PRAGUE | Pavel Landovsky, a Czech actor, anti-communist dissident and a friend of late president and playwright Vaclav Havel, has died.
FILE – In this Oct. 27, 2011 file picture Czech actor, dissident, a signatory of human rights manifesto Charter 77 and former member of Vienna’s Burgtheater Pavel Landovsky poses for photographers at his house in Kytin (about 40 kms south of Prague), Czech Republic. Landovsky died aged 78 on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, the server iDnes writes on Saturday. The news was confirmed by Landovsky’s family. Landovsky was one of the most popular Czechoslovak actors in the 1960s, having played in many films, such as the Oscar-winning ‘Closely Watched Trains’ by Jiri Menzel from 1966. (AP Photo/CTK, Martin Sterba, Rene Fluger, File) FILE – In this Oct. 27, 2011 file picture Czech actor, dissident, a signatory of human rights manifesto Charter 77 and former member of Vienna’s Burgtheater Pavel Landovsky poses for photographers at his house in Kytin (about 40 kms south of Prague), Czech Republic. Landovsky died aged 78 on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, the server iDnes writes on Saturday. The news was confirmed by Landovsky’s family. Landovsky was one of the most popular Czechoslovak actors in the 1960s, having played in many films, such as the Oscar-winning ‘Closely Watched Trains’ by Jiri Menzel from 1966. (AP Photo/CTK, Martin Sterba, Rene Fluger, File)
Landovsky, 78, died Friday of a heart attack, his family announced to the national CTK news agency on Saturday.
Landovsky appeared in numerous movies, including “Closely Watched Trains,” the Academy Award winner for the best foreign language film in 1967.
Many remember him for his role of a brewery official in Havel’s play “Audience.” In a famed 1976 recording he made with Havel, Landovsky tries to persuade a brewer worker-dissident to spy on himself.
After Landovsky signed the Charter 77 human rights manifesto, he faced communist persecution and emigrated to Austria. He returned home after the 1989 Velvet Revolution led by Havel ousted the communist regime.
