Josef Mach (25 February 1909, in
Prostějov
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– 7 July 1987, in
Prague
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) was a
Czech
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actor, screenwriter and film director.
Josef Mach worked as a journalist and stage performer at the beginning of his career, then in 1938 was appointed assistant director of short films at Grafo Film Studio
Josef Mach at the DEFA Film Library Catalog
Retrieved 25 July 2010. working with director Václav Kubásek. From 1946 Mach directed many feature films for Barrandov Studios
Barrandov Studios is a set of film studios in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the largest film studio in the country and one of the largest in Europe. Barrandov has made several major Hollywood productions, including ''Mission: Impossible (film), ...
in Prague. He is best known for '' The Sons of Great Bear'', a 1966 Red Western film that he directed for the East German DEFA
DEFA (''Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft'') was the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) throughout the country's existence. Since 2019, DEFA's film heritage has been made accessible and licensable on the PR ...
film studio.
Filmography
Sources
Josef Mach at České filmové nebe (Czech Film Heaven)
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References
External links
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Josef Mach at the DEFA Film Library Catalog
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1909 births
1987 deaths
Czech film directors
Czech male screenwriters
Czech male film actors
German-language film directors
20th-century Czech male actors
20th-century Czech screenwriters
Male Western (genre) film actors