George Voskovec

Acting

George Voskovec

Born 1905-06-19 Sázava, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic] 38 films

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.

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Filmography

38 films
Barbarosa poster

Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose…

Barbarosa

★ 5.9 1982

Happy Days poster

Winnie, a woman in her fifties, is buried waist-deep in a mound of scorched earth, with just a larg…

Happy Days

★ 8.0 1980

Skag poster

Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling str…

Skag

★ 0.0 1980

The Nativity poster

The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.

The Nativity

★ 7.5 1978

Nicky's World poster

A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks…

Nicky's World

★ 9.0 1974

Man on a Swing poster

When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chie…

Man on a Swing

★ 5.9 1974

Particular Men poster

A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows sever…

Particular Men

★ 8.0 1972

Paradise Lost poster

Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home o…

Paradise Lost

★ 9.0 1971