Karel Heřmánek (17 October 1947 – 24 August 2024) was a Czech actor.

He appeared in more than forty films between 1976 and 2008, including the role of Lucifer in 1984's S čerty nejsou žerty (Give the Devil His Due).

[1] Heřmánek died on 24 August 2024, at the age of 76, when he committed suicide by gunshot at the shooting range in Příbram.

During the previous spring, he had been suffering from trigeminal neuralgia, which causes episodes of paralysis and excruciating pain, and has depression as a complication.

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