George Voskovec
Born: 1905-06-19 in Sázava, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Died: 1981-07-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jiří Voskovec (born Jiří Wachsmann; June 19, 1905 – July 1, 1981), known in the United States as George Voskovec, was a Czech-American actor. Throughout much of his career, he was associated with actor and playwright Jan Werich. In the U.S., he is known for his role as the polite Juror #11 in the 1957 film 12 Angry Men.
Filmography
2012
2005
- Tři strážníci as self
1982
- Barbarosa as Herman Pahmeyer
1981
- Nero Wolfe as Fritz Brenner
1980
- Skag as Peter Skagska
- Somewhere in Time as Dr. Gerald Finney
- Happy Days as Willie
1979
- Roots: The Next Generations as Mr. Goldstein
1978
- The Nativity as Joachim
1975
- Switch as Lehman
1974
- Nicky's World as Paul Kaminios
- Man on a Swing as Dr. Nicholas Holnar
1973
- The Iceman Cometh as Piet Wetjoen
1972
- The Streets of San Francisco as Angus Ferguson
- Particular Men
1971
- Great Performances as Willie
- Paradise Lost as Gus Michaels
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Norman Cargill
- The Boston Strangler as Peter Hurkos
1967
- Mannix
- Golem ... (Theatre Play)
- The Desperate Ones as Doctor
1966
- Mission: Impossible
- Mister Buddwing as Shabby Old Man
- An Enemy of the People
1965
- The F.B.I. as Dr. Holman
- Run for Your Life as Colonel Zabian
- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold as East German Defense Attorney
1964
- 12 O'Clock High as Nicolas Yellich
- Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre as Player King
1963
- The Fugitive as Max Bodin
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Dr. Bensinger
- Arrest and Trial as George Kazar
- Channing as Prof. Thielman
- Espionage
1962
- Arsenic & Old Lace as Dr. Herman Einstein
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Dr. Charles Hodiak
- The Defenders as Louis Astor
- Cain's Hundred as Willy Brower
1960
- BUtterfield 8 as Dr. Tredman
- Balada z hadrů ... (Theatre Play)
- Těžká Barbora ... (Theatre Play)
1959
- The Untouchables as Charles Tarasovich
- The Third Man as Anton Radek
- Johnny Staccato
- The Velvet Alley as Steve Pandish
- Play of the Week as Elek Odry
1958
- Naked City as Prof. Johann von Bunow
- Wind Across the Everglades as Aaron Nathanson
- The Bravados as Gus Steimmetz
1957
- 12 Angry Men as Juror 11
- Uncle Vanya as Voinitsky (Uncle Vanya)
- The 27th Day as Prof. Klaus Bechner
1954
- Twelve Angry Men as Juror #11
1953
- General Electric Theater as Max
1952
- Anything Can Happen as Pavli
- The Iron Mistress as John James Audubon
- Affair in Trinidad as Doctor Franz Huebling
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dr. Einstein
1948
- Studio One as Juror #11
1939
1937
- The World Belongs to Us as kamelot
1936
- The Golem ... (Theatre Play)
1934
- Heave-Ho!
- Here in Kocourkov ... (Lyricist)
1932
- Your Money or Your Life as Pepík
- Powder and Petrol