Pavel Vondruška

Pavel Vondruška (15 November 1925 – 5 February 2011) was a Czech actor and musician, and from 1969 was a member of the Jára Cimrman Theatre (named after Jára Cimrman, the spurious character) in Žižkov, Prague.

[1] He was born in České Budějovice, and mastered a number of foreign languages (French, Italian, Spanish, English, Russian, German, Croatian, Latin and Esperanto).

He is known as an author and adapted music for some stagings (for example, Paličova dcera by Josef Kajetán Tyl).

In the years 1969–2010 he was a member of the company at the Jára Cimrman Theatre – named after a non-existent playwright.

On 28 December 2010 he suffered a serious fall from the podium of the Estates Theatre while guiding tourists.