Martin Frič | |
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Born |
Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) |
29 March 1902
Died | 26 August 1968 Prague, Czechoslovakia |
(aged 66)
Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
Years active | 1922-1968 |
Spouse(s) | Suzanne Marwille |
Martin Frič (29 March 1902 – 26 August 1968) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor. 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. On the day of Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he committed suicide, after battling cancer. He died in hospital five days later.