Karol Machata
Known for: Acting
Karol Machata was born into a working-class family in Malacky. He started on the radio at the age of twelve and devoted himself to amateur theater. In the end, he preferred theater to economics. From 1948 to 1950 he studied acting at the State Conservatory in Bratislava and from 1952 to 1953 he worked at the Army Theater in Martin. Karol Machata is one of the most important representatives of Slovak acting of the post-war generation. He performed his first roles on theater boards in Martin. He appeared in the production of Sládkovičová Marina (1948), in The Assassination (the character of a member of the group of assassins on Heydrich, 1949), he played the character of Fortinbras in Shakespeare's Hamlet (1950). His title characters Geľa Sebechlebský (1952) and Jánošík (1953) enjoyed a penetrating success. For the next forty-five years he was a member of the Drama of the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava, where he worked from 1953 to 1998. He became a versatile actor. He was able to play heroic roles, but he also excelled in comedic or lyrical positions. He made his film debut as a Slovak aviator in the Czech film Vítezná křídla 1950 and has been one of the busiest film and television actors ever since. He has acted in dozens of Slovak films that belong to the golden fund of Slovak cinema: Zemianska honor, St. Peter's Umbrella, Interrupted Song, Song of the Gray Pigeon, Midnight Mass, Miss Bacilpýška's Crime, Sin of Katarína Padychová, Hidden Spring, Gold, Salt or Geľo Sebechlebský and many others. For significant merits in the field of theater, film and radio production, the President awarded him the Pribin Cross II in 2003. classes. In 2005 he received the Tatrabanka Award for Art and in 2008 he won the OTO Award and was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Filmography
Series
Frankenstein's Aunt
Vypravěč
1987
Series
Vivat Beňovský!
Du Ternay
1975
Povstalecká história
Alfréd Schram
1984
Zaprášené histórie Ema Bohúňa
1970
Naši synovia
1975
Film
Interrupted Song
1960
Series
Sám vojak v poli
1964
The Struggle Will End Tomorrow
1951
Series
Pltník Paľko a vodník Venček
Venček (voice)
1983
Unploughed Field
1954
Anička Jurkovičová
Samuel Jurkovič
1983
Midnight Mass
Marián Kubis
1962
Series
Red Wine
1972
Film
Salt & Gold
King Pravoslav
1983
Film
The Song of the Grey Pigeon
1961
The Portrait of Dorian Gray
1970
Snehuľkovia
1971
Prípad jasnovidca Hanussena
1970
Bratislavské rozprávky
1991
Telefón Agafón
Narrator (voice)
1975
Vyznavač snov
Narrator (voice)
1970
Dobrá novina, šťastná hodina...
narrator
1990
Film
Brothers
Jozef Haviar (voice)
1962
Film
Prípad pre obhajcu
1964
Teraz sa už nehráme...
1987
National Artist Professor Karol Plicka
Commentary (voice)
1970
Spomienky na lúčenie
1993
Film
St. Peter's Umbrella
Wibra Gyuri, ügyvéd
1958
Koníček Hrbáčik
(voice)
1978
Tri poviedky s Karolom Machatom
1993
Muž ktorý sa nevrátil
1959
Vždy možno začať
1962
Film
Shadows of a Hot Summer
1978
Janko mydlo a voda
Narrator (voice)
1957
Film
The False Prince
Narrator (voice)
1985
„Od štvrtka do zmŕtvychvstania...“
1969
Ivanov
1964
Pomsta starej dámy alebo Na každého raz dôjde
1968
Film
Angel in the Mountains
Zdenek Soukup
1955
Tvár v rose
1989
Čierny gróf
1972
Film
Skrytý prameň
1974
Dosť dobrí chlapi
1972
Keď chybí trombón
1962
Mariša
Vávra
1984
Film
Not Far From Heaven
1987
Bludička
1977
Vejár
Crespino
1965
Film
The Last Witch
Gaspar Sedmík
1957
Dobrý skutok
1972
Trofej neznámeho strelca
1974
Dúha nad Slovenskom
Commentary (voice)
1952
Rozprávky pod stromček
1981
Film
Hriech Kataríny Padychovej
1973
Veselé panie z Windsoru
Doctor Caius
1980
Film
Tri poviedky so Zdenou Gruberovou
1994
Drotár
1966
Predjarie
1961
Zojka a Valerija
1971
Film
Páni sa zabávajú
1972
Ivan
1960
Film
Trip on the Danube
pán Belan
1963
Konečne bude mier!
Karol (voice)
1985
Srdce na lane
1973
Najdúch
1992
Náš pán doktor
Narrator (voice)
1983
Earthly Honor
1958
Mladé srdcia
1953
Film
Pieseň o bardejovskom Egídiovi
Narrator
1968
Igor a výmyselníci
1972
Ľahučký dych
1971
Koník z ebenu
(uncredited)
1987
Film
Labyrint srdce
agent Just alias Vilém Jonas
1961
Koniec a začiatok
1968
Pavilón číslo 6
1992
Film
Lazy sa pohly
Jozef Rendko
1952
Čisté ruky
1968
Na počiatku bola pieseň
Self - Narrator
1970
Film
Don't Be Afraid
Ondro's Father
1989
Cid
1974
Zločin slečny Bacilpýšky
1971
Film
Hody
starý Nádaský
1988
Oneskorené kvety
1992
Horoucí srdce
1963
Stretnutie
Peter Dobrík (45 years old)
1975
Vdova
1993
Lorenzaccio
1991
Geľo Sebechlebský
1963
Kamaráti
1973
The Wooden Village
Pavo Sechnár
1955
Gottšalk
1988
Film
Victorious Wings
Slovak Aviator
1951
Geľo Sebechlebský
1954
Dvaja
1971
Hľadači svetla
1971