Karel Effa
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 (97 Appearances)
Věčná Slavia
Náhodou je príma!
Paní Liška
Figurky ze šmantů
Růžový Hubert
A co ten ruksak, králi?
The Feather Fairy
The False Prince
Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval
S Pydlou v zádech
...and again that Lucy!
The Flying Cestmir
Amadeus
Byt je vykraden, maminko...
Ze staré drogerie
Bulldogs and Cherries
Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem
Dnes v jednom domě
The Ninth Heart
Nemocnice na kraji města
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
Good-for-Nothing
Long Live Ghosts!
Almost King
Pozor, ide Jozefína...
Koncert pro mantinely
Circus in the Circus
Thirty Cases of Major Zema
Sám proti městu
A Night at Karlstein
Three Men Travelling
Affairs of my Wife
Zlatá svatba
Straw Hat
Bakaláři
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling
You Are a Widow, Sir
Zpívající přístavy
Marcelka
Pan Tau
On the Comet
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
Pražská romance
The Wishing Machine
The Terribly Sad Princess
Klapzubova jedenáctka
The Stolen Airship
Svatební cesta aneb Ještě ne, Evžene!
The Pipes
Who Wants to Kill Jessie?
Martin and Nine Fools
The Borrowed Face
The Jester's Tale
Lemonade Joe
Secret of the Chinese Carnation
A Star Travels South
When the Cat Comes
Ticho! Ticho! Ticho!
A Great Road Ahead
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
Tlouštík
Florián
Every Penny Counts
The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
Pochodně
Black Saturday
Ztracená revue
The Lost Photography
The Princess with the Golden Star
May Stars
Of Things Supernatural
Florenc 13,30
Sons of the Mountains
Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph
Muž v povětří
Hudba z Marsu
The Circus Will Be
Setkání s Hansem Sachsem
Nad námi svítá
Kidnapped
Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy
The Proud Princess
Rodinné trampoty oficiála Tříšky
Pan Novák
Distant Journey
Red Lizard
Zrcadlo na vesnici 3
Zrcadlo byrokratické 2
Old Ironside
The Musician
Ves v pohraničí
Nobody Knows Anything
Sign of the Anchor
Portáši
Parohy
The Last of the Mohicans
The Stolen Border