Famous People with Name Zdenek

Zdenek Štepánek            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Zdenek Štepánek: was a Czech actor. He appeared in 65 films between 1922 and 1968.

Zdenek Liška            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Zdenek Liška: was a Czech composer who produced a large of number film scores across a prolific career that started in the 1950s. He worked notably with animator Jan Švankmajer, scoring several of his earlier short films: Punch and Judy (1966), Et Cetera (1966), Historia Naturae (Suita) (1967), The Flat (1968), Don Juan (1969), The Ossuary (1970), Jabberwocky (1971), and Leonardo's Diary (1972), and later The Castle of Otranto (1979). Liška's music for Švankmajer's Historia Naturae (Suita), The Flat, and The Ossuary was also featured in the 1984 short film by American animators the Brothers Quay entitled The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer.

Zdenek Lukáš            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Zdenek Lukáš: was a prolific Czech composer having composed over 330 works. He graduated from a teachers' college and worked as a teacher from 1953 to 1963. He was a musical editor and program director at the National Broadcasting Company in Pilsen and conducted the Ceská písen, one of the most famous choirs in the Czechoslovakia.

Zdenek Podskalský            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Zdenek Podskalský: was a Czech film director and screenwriter. He directed 32 films between 1950 and 1987.

Zdenek Škrland            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Zdenek Škrland: was a Czechoslovak sprint canoer who competed in the late 1930s. He won a gold medal in the C-2 10000 m event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.Škrland also won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1938 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Vaxholm.