George Pravda

Highest Rated: 80% Hopscotch (1980)

Lowest Rated: 14% The Next Man (1976)

Birthday: Jun 19, 1918

Birthplace: Prague, Czechoslovakia

George Pravda was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Pravda began his acting career with roles in such films as the Victor Mature drama "No Time to Die" (1958), "The Password Is Courage" (1962) and "Hide and Seek" (1964). He also appeared in the comedic adaptation "Where the Spies Are" (1965) with Francoise Dorleac, the Dirk Bogarde comedy adaptation "Agent 8 3/4" (1965) and the Sean Connery action picture "Thunderball" (1965). He kept working in film throughout the sixties and the seventies, starring in the drama "The Shoes of the Fisherman" (1968) with Anthony Quinn, "Submarine X-1" (1969) and the Robert Goulet action flick "Underground" (1970). He also appeared in the horror feature "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed" (1970) with Peter Cushing. During the latter part of his career, he tackled roles in the Donald Sutherland comedy "Spys" (1974), the Sean Connery thriller "The Next Man" (1976) and the comedy "The Omega Connection" (1979) with Jeffrey Byron. He also appeared in the action film "Hanover Street" (1979) with Harrison Ford and "Hopscotch" (1980) with Walter Matthau. Pravda more recently appeared in "Gulag" (HBO, 1984-85).