Martin Frič (29 March 1902 – 26 August 1968) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor.

[1] He had more than 100 directing credits between 1929 and 1968, including feature films, shorts and documentary films.

Throughout his life, Frič struggled with alcoholism.

[2] On the day of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he attempted suicide, after battling cancer.

He died in the hospital five days later.