Michal Dočolomanský

Born: 1942-03-25

Michal Dočolomanský (* March 25, 1942, Nedeca, Slovak state, today Poland - † August 26, 2008, Bratislava) was a Slovak actor, singer, moderator and imitator. His father Rudolf (1899 - 1954) worked as a teacher in Transylvania, Romania, among Slovaks there. There he married Florian (1915-1995), a Romanian woman who was sixteen years younger than him. They had a total of 10 children. In 1942, they moved to the village of Nedeca, which then belonged to the Slovak state, where the son Michal was born in the same year. At the end of the Second World War, the family moved to Slovakia. Initially they lived in Mlynčeky (Kežmarok district), then in the village of Nebojsa (now part of Galanta, where his father worked as a primary school principal. They moved to Svätý Jur after his death in 1954. The mother died in 1995 and is buried with her husband at the cemetery in Slávič Valley. After graduating from elementary school, Michal Dočolomanský trained as a car mechanic. As a child, he devoted himself to amateur theater in Svätý Jur, and his hobbies were also gymnastics, and later gliding. He graduated in acting in 1964 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and has been a member of the Slovak National Theater since then. He died on August 26, 2008 in the morning at the Department of Pneumology and Phthisiology of the University Hospital with a polyclinic in Ružinov, Bratislava. He succumbed to lung cancer at the age of 66. He has acted in many Slovak and Czech films, in television series such as Sváko Ragan (1976), The Eleventh Commandment (1977), The Engineering Odyssey (1979), Insurgent History (1984), Elizabeth's Court (1986), Mountain Service (1998) and films Three Chestnut Horses (1966), Generation (1969), Copper Button (1970), Zypa Cupák (1976), Studio (1990) and many other television productions. In the successful play Na skle maľované, he played the title role of Jánošík from 1974 to 2002 (the performance recorded 642 reruns). In the Slovak version, he spoke all the characters of the Polish evening film Macko Uško. - 1982 - Deserved Artist Award - 31 August 2007 - Ľudovít Štúr 1st Class Council - for extraordinary services to the development of Slovakia and the spread of goodwill abroad Memorial plaque at the birth house in Nedec, July 10, 2010, in memoriam


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Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet

as Detective Nick Carter / Larry Matejka
Released: 1978-08-04

When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a...

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Days of Betrayal

as uncredited
Released: 1973-04-27

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the...

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The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians

as Count Teleke of Tölökö
Released: 1981-10-02

In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged...

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Súkromná vojna

as Rub (voice)
Released: 1978-05-05

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Stratená dolina

as uncredited
Released: 1977-08-05

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Corpus delicti

as uncredited
Released: 1991-11-14

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The Copper Tower

as Physician
Released: 1970-08-28

A dramatic story of three friends happily spending time on their own in a mountain cottage in...

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The Millennial Bee

as Valent
Released: 1984-02-01

A family saga taking place mostly in a small Slovak village over a period of thirty years...

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The Sun in a Net

as Fajolo (voice)
Released: 1963-02-15

Oldrich "Fajolo" Fajták (Marián Bielik), a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse...

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Hriech Kataríny Padychovej

as uncredited
Released: 1973-01-01

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Penelopa

as uncredited
Released: 1978-01-20

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Skrytý prameň

as uncredited
Released: 1974-01-18

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Plavčík a Vratko

as King Svetoslav
Released: 1982-05-28

The son of a charcoal burner was once prophesied as a child to marry the daughter of a king. The...

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Night Riders

as Marek Oban
Released: 1981-06-26

Two men of principle face each other. One is backed by a whole, however poor village, the other...

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Coal Tower

as otec Jakuba
Released: 2002-03-28

Jakub, a young, small time drug dealer, wakes up to find the police storming the apartment...

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Riders in the Sky

as George (voice)
Released: 1968-12-20

The story of Czech pilots in RAF service during the Battle of Britain, and the ongoing aerial...

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Bestiář

as uncredited
Released: 2007-04-18

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Horúčka

as uncredited
Released: 1975-12-10

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Vítězný lid

as uncredited
Released: 1978-02-17

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The Lawyer

as Ing. Pavol Javorský (voice)
Released: 1978-03-17

The story of a young lawyer who finds herself in a difficult situation when she encounters...

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Pávie pierko

as König
Released: 1987-01-01

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A Face in the Window

as uncredited
Released: 1963-12-25

A movie built up of three stories about life in a small Slovak town. The Prosecutor: the...

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Werther

as Albert
Released: 1985-06-06

Jules Massanet's lyrical opera is transformed into a superb film production by Petr Weigl, shot...

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Poéma o svedomí

as uncredited
Released: 1979-08-24

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Zajtra bude neskoro

as Brauniss
Released: 1972-12-14

1943. Captain Ian Nalepke, Chief of Staff of the Slovak regiment, bearing protection of military...

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In The Hour Of Fear...

as uncredited
Released: 1968-01-01

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Колония Ланфиер

as uncredited
Released: 1968-08-11

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Sneh pod nohami

as uncredited
Released: 1979-06-15

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Bakaláři

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-02-19

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Slovácko sa nesúdí

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-11-24

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Vivat Beňovský!

as Corbi (voice)
First aired: 1975-10-06

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Tisícročná včela

as Valent Pichanda
First aired: 1983-01-01

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Sváko Ragan

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-12-24

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Okna vesmíru dokořán

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-10-21

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Pltník Paľko a vodník Venček

as Cypro (voice)
First aired: 1983-01-01

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Red Wine

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-12-22

An epic saga of the Habdza family of vineyard keepers set in western Slovakian countryside at...

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Indiánske rozprávky

as Narrator
First aired: 1982-01-01

fairy tales about little american native boy's adventures.

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