Czech actor and voice actor Jan Pohan he played dozens of mostly secondary film and television roles. Thanks to his masculine appearance, he often played soldiers and criminals. His last acting act was the TV crime series Policie Modrava under the baton of director Jaroslav Soukup, writes the website.
The creators entrusted him with the role of a retired policeman in the well-known series, who spends most of his time at his small cabin near Ottawa. And it is there that the main character goes to him for advice. It was supposed to be like that in other parts as well, but fate intervened.
“In 2014, he injured his spine, fell from a ladder onto the concrete at the cottage. When he got over the worst, he filmed with us again, but it wasn’t the same anymore because he couldn’t walk. Then he couldn’t do it anymore because of the pain and apologized from filming. Mirko Vaic and I had to hastily edit the written parts in which he was to play. We even filmed his funeral at the cemetery in Kašperské Hory. And a few months later, in February 2015, Jan actually died,” director Soukup recalled.
Pahan first appeared in a film in 1958, in the psychological drama Here Are the Lions. Since then, he has made approximately one hundred films. Among the most famous are I’ll get up tomorrow and get scalded with tea, Markéta Lazarová, The star called Wormwood or Honor and Glory. For example, he also appeared in the films Prače, Reportage written on a noose, If a thousand clarinets.
Criminalists or security officers were also embodied by the actor in films Who Wants to Kill Jessie?, Flirt with Miss Stříbrna, A killer is waiting in the dormitories, Diagnosis of death and in the mentioned Bíla spona. Since the 1960s, he regularly appeared in television productions and films. He is best remembered by the audience as the ranger Antoš from the trilogy with Tomáš Holý – Under Jezevčí skála, Na pytlácké stezce and Behind the thorn bush.
The actor, real name Kurt Jüstl, came from Karlovy Vary from a German family. In 1933, the family moved to Prague, but immediately both his parents died. He spent two years in an orphanage, and was later adopted by lieutenant colonel František Pohan. As a native German, he excelled in perfect German, and thanks to this he appeared in foreign films, for example Night in the Border Forest, Kaspar Hauser and in several series.
He was one of the top dubbing artists. He narrated classic works East of Paradise, Stalingrad, Bedári, Pink Panther, Assassination in Paris, Jackal, but also several crime series such as Matlock and Commissioner Navarro. In 2001, he was awarded the František Filipovský Award for lifelong excellence in dubbing. He died on February 13, 2015, two months after his 84th birthday.
