At the age of 91, a Slovak actor, entertainer, screenwriter, musician and moderator Oldo Hlaváček died on Sunday in Bratislava. Oldo Hlaváček died in Sunday morning after a longer illness in one of Bratislava’s hospitals.
Oldo Hlaváček was born on January 26, 1934 in Bratislava. The first acting opportunity was given to beetles in the school performance. During his studies he played in the amateur ensemble of the folk scene of the city of Žilina and in the grammar school ring of Maxim Gorky. He then graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava.
He considered his greatest success to meet his wife, who was also a lifelong model. “In the first place, meeting my wife Božka is many years ago. She was for me, she will remain the greatest role forever. As far as work is concerned, she often helped me write and also interpret. These are domestic success, but I advise you before all the other successes I have achieved, ”he confessed to TASR Hlaváček at his 90th anniversary, which he celebrated last year.
In 1963 he became a member of the Drama of the Slovak National Theater (SND). For years he dressed in the hell’s costume in a musical on the glass painted. There was fear of hell in the games, the Karamaz brothers, the beetle in the head, the servant of two gentlemen, the adventure at the Obžinky, the women’s law, the attempt to fly or the tavern under the green tree and in many others.
“I got to the theater in an interesting way, right after the military service. I played very often, especially on the small scene of the SND. Here I experienced the most positive response from the audience, and I considered it one of the greatest successes in my work”Hlaváček revealed.
He found space for his comics, a sense of parody and cartoon mainly on radio and television. He has performed in countless entertainment programs, including the New Year’s Eve. He and his colleague Ivan Krajíček portrayed unforgettable farms in the scenes in the inn Pod Gaštan.
It was in the framework of work success that he appreciated the most of the work on the radio. “When I asked myself what I did well, it was writing texts for various shows on the radio and TV. That comforted me, I calmed down with it,“In 2024, the artist approached.
However, the rocket rise of popularity in Old Hlaváček in the 1970s of the 20th century brought the television competition a more funny wins winsin which the famous actors told jokes and their success measured “applause”. Hlaváček not only introduced the show, but also prepared. Actors such as František Dibarbora, Marián Labuda, Eva Krížiková, Ivan Rajniak, Magda Paveleková, Ivan Krivosudský or Ivan Krajíček, who later replaced the head later replaced the highest level of 100 points.
He made his film debut in 1966 in Tango for bear. The audience could also see him in the film drama tomorrow (1972), in the comedy Hroch (1973), Rača, Love My (1977), in the fairy tale Wise Gabriela (1983) and in the television film Bankinghouse Khuwich and Comp. (1985). He and his son Ivo Hlaváček performed upside down in the program and moderated the program Kurnicholubník. He also performed in television series as secret lives (2015) and ZOO (2016).
In addition to his wife, Hlaváček also had a model from the acting industry. “The friends who were willing to do and do everything possible, and I do not want to say that even sacrificing life for his friend, so it was Jozef Kroner. When I started and was literally in its infancy, I did not mean anything, I did not achieve anything in Slovakia, I had no chance to work in something that people would be excited and satisfied primarily. Was a role model for me and a very good friend“Hlaváček said.
“First of all, because he was a fisherman, he liked nature. Every day we were together, we walked on the globe, then, of course, in various institutions such as radio, theater, television and especially then there were very topical establishments”He added.
President of the Slovak Republic Rudolf Schuster, President of the Slovak Republic on February 20, 2004, awarded the actor of the Cross of the President of the Slovak Republic II. degree of degree.
In October 2013, Hlaváček participated in the revelation of the board in the memory of political prisoners, who held the Communist regime in the building of the Institute for Custody and the Institute for Performing Freedom in Bratislava in 1948 – 1989. He himself was imprisoned for one year in 1957 for the outburst against the Republic. After returning from the prison, he was accepted to Slovnaft in Bratislava to the place of the steam cylinder driver, but eventually the offer from the Jonáš Záborský Theater in Prešov allowed the artist to continue the acting career.
He ended his professional career at the SND theater boards, where he studied the last role in a funeral or wedding – what earlier? (premiere in 2019). In the game by Chanoch Levin, he portrayed Hlaváček’s character Lichtenstein, an aging yogger. The last time in the production, charged with resounding names such as Dušan Jamrich, Martin Huba, Ľuboš Kostelný, Gabriela Dzuríková and Zuzana Kocúriková, played in June 2021.
The actor in private also excelled as an excellent cook and craftsman. Two sons remained after him – Oldo and Ivo, he was a proud grandfather and great -grandfather.
