Vladimír Pucholt
Vladimír Pucholt is a Czech-Canadian physician and former actor. His specialization are pediatrics and neonatology.
Life
Vladimír Pucholt was born in Prague in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. His father was an attorney, who after the Soviet-backed communist putch in 1948 refused to serve the regime. So his son, Vladimír, was not allowed to study medicine, had to spend a year in a factory and was allowed to the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague to formally qualify as an actor.After first roles as a child film actor, beginning at the age of nine and acting in supporting roles in a few films he gained fame as Čenda in Miloš Forman's Black Peter. His next roles as Filip in Rychman's Starci na chmelu and as Milda in Forman's Loves of a Blonde, with quite a some success abroad, together with Hana Brejchová as Andula, turned him, and her, to one of the most famous young actors in Czechoslovakia.
After graduating DAMU in 1965, he joined the newly founded The Drama Club / Činoherní klub in Prague. Jan Kačer, who searched for suitable members for the ensemble, said of the selection of actors: "I wanted them to be people who hated totalitarianism, while full with imagination, creativity, and freedom."
In 1967 at the height of his popularity he decided to emigrate to the United Kingdom to study medicine. He was admitted to study at the University of Sheffield, Medical School thanks to a recommendation letter by the film director Lindsay Anderson. The writer John Le Carré lent him money for tuition. He graduated with a degree in medicine, and with the gold medal, from Sheffield in 1974.
In 1981 he, his wife Rosemary and their young daughter Camilla and son Lindsay, moved to Toronto, Canada, where, after a stopover year in North Bay, Pucholt worked as a paediatrician in Toronto hospital and in his own practice, together with his wife, until their retirement.
He returned to acting only in Vojtěch Jasný's film Return of the Paradise Lost / Návrat ztraceného ráje.
He sharply observes the situation, totalitarian heritage, in his first homeland:
Filmography
;Czechoslovakia- 1952 Konec strašidel
- 1955 Hastrman
- 1955 Návštěva z oblak
- 1955 Punťa a čtyřlístek
- 1955 Vzorný kinematograf Haška Jaroslava
- 1956 Dobrodružství Toma Sawyera
- 1956 Nezlob, Kristino
- 1957 Brankář bydlí v naší ulici
- 1958 Kasaři
- 1958 O věcech nadpřirozených
- 1960 Žalobníci
- 1961 Malý Bobeš
- 1962 Měšťáci
- 1962 Oranžový měsíc
- 1962 Pozdní láska
- 1962 Šestý do party
- 1963 Černý Petr / Black Peter, director Miloš Forman, as Čenda
- 1963 Kdyby ty muziky nebyly, director Miloš Forman
- 1964 Démanty noci / Diamonds of the Night, director Jan Němec, voice Druhý
- 1964 První den mého syna, director Ladislav Helge, as Žluťásek / Jiří Kouba
- 1964 Starci na chmelu / The Hop Pickers, director Ladislav Rychman, as Filip
- 1964 Konkurs / Audition, director Miloš Forman, as Vláďa
- 1965 Souhvězdí Panny / Constellation of the Virgo, director Zbyněk Brynych, as Veleba
- 1965 Lásky jedné plavovlásky / Loves of a Blonde, director Miloš Forman, as Milda
- 1967 Svatba jako řemen, director Jiří Krejčík, as junior policeman
- 1970 Malatesta, director Peter Lilienthal, as Gardstein, German Film Award / Best Supporting Actor 1970
- 1999 Návrat ztraceného ráje, director Vojtěch Jasný
- 2014 V klidu a naplno, director Josef Abrhám
Theater
Činoherní klub – actor in the productions- 1967 Nikolaj Vasiljevič Gogol: Revizor / The Government Inspector, direction Jan Kačer, as Chlestakov, official from Petersburg
- 1966 Ladislav Smoček: Podivné odpoledne dr. Zvonka Burkeho / Dr. Burke's Strange Afternoon, direction Ladislav Smoček, as Burke
- 1965 Albert Camus: Spravedliví / The Just, direction Jan Kačer, as Alexej Vojnov
- 1965 Sean O'Casey: Pension pro svobodné pány / Pension for Single Gentlemen, direction Jiří Krejčík, as ''Halibud''