Jiří Trnka

1912 - 1969

Plzeň, Rakousko-Uhersko

Actor

Animation

Art Direction

Director

Writer

Biography

A graduate of Prague's School of Arts and Crafts, in 1936 he created a puppet theater, which was disbanded after the outbreak of WWII. During the war he designed stage sets and illustrated children's books. In 1945 he set up an animation unit with several collaborators at the Prague film studio; they called the unit "Trick Brothers." Trnka speciali