Karel Dobrý

Karel Dobrý (born 2 May 1969) is a Czech film, television and stage actor. He is known for playing Liet-Kynes in the Dune 2000 miniseries, and Korba in the 2003 sequel Children of Dune, and as Matthias in Mission: Impossible. He also appeared in the award-winning film The Girl of Your Dreams by Fernando Trueba.

Karel Dobrý
Born	(1969-05-02) 2 May 1969 Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1991–present

Biography

He was born 2 May 1969 in Karlovy Vary. He was raised in Prague and spent part of his childhood living in Syria. He speaks Czech, Russian, German, and English.

Selected filmography

• Elektro, má lásko (1991, TV Movie) – Orestes
• La patience de Maigret (1993, TV Series) – Serveur Tropical
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen (1995, TV Movie) – Göring
• Sacred Cargo (1995) – Barishvili
• Jak si zasloužit princeznu (1995) – The Strongest
• UŽ (1995) – Butch
• Mission: Impossible (1996) – Matthias
• Let's Make an Opera (1996) – Burglar
• La niña de tus ojos (1998, Short) – Leo
• Plunkett & Macleane (1999) – Lewd Young Man
• Spring of Life - Der Lebensborn (2000) – Odillo
• Jabloňová panna (2000, TV Movie) – Prince
• Frank Herbert's Dune (2000, TV Mini-Series) – Liet-Kynes
• Kytice (2000) – King (segment "Zlatý kolovrat")
• A Knight's Tale (2001) – Flanders King of Arms
• Cabriolet (2001)
• Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001, TV Mini-Series) – Commandment
• The Mists of Avalon (2001, TV Mini-Series) – Rhiannon
• Ratten - sie werden dich kriegen (2001, TV Movie) – Reporter
• Szach (2001) – Jakub
• Černí andělé, episode "Červená karta" (2002, TV Series) – Panenka
• Doctor Zhivago (2002, TV Mini-Series) – Mayakovsky
• Četnické humoresky, episode "Dědic" (2002, TV Series) – Josef Kalousek
• Nezvěstný (2003, TV Movie) – Hušner
• Krysař (2003) – Devil / Destiny
• Tajemný svícen (2003, TV Movie) – Devil
• Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003, TV Mini-Series) – Korba
• Trosečníci (2003) – Sailor (segment "Kráska a netvor")
• NaPolA (2004) – SS-Arzt
• Der neunte Tag (2004) – Reporter Bertram
• Krev zmizelého (2005)– Brand
• Hui Bůh (2006) – Ritter Ottokar
• Maharal - tajemstvi talismanu (2007) – Receptionist
• Skeletoni (2007, Short) – Pokálený pán
• Flammen & Citronen (2008) – Seibold
• Báthory (2008) – Royal Guard Commander
• The Counterpart (2008, Short) – Italian Captain
• Ocas ještěrky (2009) – Čihák
• Jménem krále (2009) – Adalbert of Jestřebí
• Strážce duší (2009, TV Series) – Richard
• Janosik. Prawdziwa historia (2009) – Plavčík
• We Shoot with Love (2009) – Bad Guy (segment "Pulse Beat")
• Joséphine, ange gardien (2010, TV Series) – Lieutenant
• Utomlennye solntsem 2 (2010) – Nemetskiy letchik
• Klub osamělých srdcí (2010, TV Movie) – Jagol
• Vyprávěj (2010-2012, TV Series) – Matěj Stránský
• 4teens (2011, TV series) – Láďa Kocman, lieutenant
• Faust (2011) – Soldier
• Znamení koně (2011, TV Series) – Karel Dejmek
• Borgia (2011-2014, TV Series) – Giovanni Colonna
• Missing (2012, TV Series) – Coffee Man
• L'olimpiade nascosta (2012, TV Movie) – Pavel Kubík
• In the Shadow (2012) – Muz z rozhlasu
• Tigre v meste (2012) – Kužnikov
• Bullet for Heydrich (The Czech Century) (2013, TV Series) – General lev prchala
• České století, episode "Den po Mnichovu" (2013, TV Series) – Lev Prchala, general
• Cirkus Bukowsky (2013-2014, TV Series) – Hartman, lawyer
• Child 44 (2015) – Photographer
• Lída Baarová (2016) – Gerhard Lamprecht, film director
• Strasidla (2016) – Ignác
• Zahradnictví: Rodinný prítel (2017) – Karel
• The Adventurers (2017) – Yelyuk (The Buyer)
• Zahradnictví: Dezertér (2017) – Karel
• Milada (2017) – NKVD Agent Lichacev
• Zahradnictví: Nápadník (2017) – Karel
• Certoviny (2017) – Lucifer
• The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) – Cold-Eyed German
• Hastrman (2018) – Baron Johann Salmon de Caus
• May the Lord Be with Us (2018) – Jindrich Matyás Thurn
• A War Within (2018) – Doctor
• The Glass Room (2019) – Láník
• Carnival Row (2023) – Pact Ambassador Anrep (6 episodes)

Theatre

National Theatre (Prague)

• Tartuffe Impromptu (2014) – Tartuffe (musical performance)
• Strakonický dudák (2014) – Vocilka
• The Deafening Smell of White (2013) – Vincent van Gogh
• Troilus and Cressida (2012) – Odysseus

Divadlo Komedie (Prague)

• Kabaret Ivan Blatný (2007) – Man (musical performance)
• Solingen (Rána z milosti) (2004) – Horatio
• Třetí Řím (2004) – Saška
• Ukřižovaná (2004) – Doctor
• The Cannibals (2003) – Klaub, medicine student

Divadlo Na zábradlí (Prague)

• JE SUiS (2001) – Pastor
• Terasa (2001) – Maurice
• Výnosné místo (2000) – Žadov
• Malý Říjen (1999) – Slovák Juraj Slovák
• Histrionics (1999) – Ferruccio, son
• Ivanov (1998) – Eugene Lvov, young doctor (Alfréd Radok Awards for Best Play)
• Táňa, Táňa (1997) – Ivanov
• Cabaret (1997) – Rudolf Schultz (musical performance)
• The Seagull (1994) – Boris Trigorin, novelist (Alfréd Radok Awards for Best Play)
• Naši Naši furianti (1994) – Filip Dubský
• Pokojíček (1993) – Jiří

Kašpar Theatre Company (Prague)

• The Green Cockatoo (1992) – Baltasar
• Käthchen of Heilbronn (1992) – Bedřich Veter
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1991) – Christian & De Valvert

Nordic Black Theatre (Oslo, Norway)

• Mr. Bojangles (1992) – Joe

Other stage works

• Day of the Oprichnik (2013) – Andrej Danilovič (Studio Hrdinů), Alfréd Radok Awards for Best Actor, Cena Divadelních novin for Best Actor, nominated for Thalia Awards for Best Actor
• The Church (L'Église) (2012) – Bardamu & Céline (Studio Hrdinů), nominated for Alfréd Radok Awards for Best Actor
• Richard III (2012) – Duke of Buckingham (Summer Shakespeare Festival)
• Buzní kříž (2012) – Lucrecia (MeetFactory, Prague)
• Vánoční zázrak (2011) – Radan (Divadlo Broadway in Prague, musical performance)
• Kudykam (2009) – Kudykam (Prague State Opera, musical performance)
• Skočná (2009) – Louis-Ferdinand Céline (MeetFactory, Prague)
• Muži malují (2009) – Hubínek (MeetFactory, Prague)
• Horníci (Muži tmy) (2008) – (A Studio Rubín, Prague)
• Jeanne D'Arc (2007) – Judge (Divadlo Miriam, Prague, musical performance)
• Na Fidela mi nesahej! (2007) – Rene Ernesto Ariza (Experimentální prostor NoD - Klub Roxy, Prague)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (2006) – Lord Henry Wotton (Divadlo TaFantastika, Prague, musical performance)
• In the Penal Colony (2005) – The Condemned Man (Divadlo Archa, Divadlo La Fabrika, Klub Roxy, acting role in opera by Philip Glass)
• Sud prachu (2003) – Policeman & Mane (Činoherní studio Ústí nad Labem)
• E.F.B. - Kladivo na divadlo (2004) – (Divadlo Archa, musical performance)
• King Lear (2002) – Edmund, illegitimate son of Gloucester (Summer Shakespeare Festival)
• Dalibor (2001) – Zdeněk (National Theatre in Prague, acting role in opera by Bedřich Smetana)
• Summit Conference (1991) – Soldier (Divadlo Rokoko, Prague)

External links

• Karel Dobrý unofficial website (in Czech)
• Karel Dobrý at IMDb
• Karel Dobrý at the Czechoslovak Film Database (in Czech)