Biography

Vladimír Ráž was born on July 1, 1923 in Nejdek, Czechoslovakia. He was an actor, known for Revolucni rok 1848 (1949), Taková láska (1959) and Gottwald (1986). He died on July 4, 2000 in Prague, Czech Republic.

[on why he and Alena Vránová refused a potential sequel to The Proud Princess (1952)]: "They sent me the script, but it was far from having the value, the wisdom, the pure fairy-tale humor of the first one. On the contrary, there were dramatic scenes, some of them even took place in tombs. King Miroslav and Krasomila live in estrangement and have a daughter who does whatever she wants, and so she begins to experience a story strikingly similar to the fate of her mother Krasomila. I wrote to Bořivoj Zeman that I didn't think this version was a good idea, that it would damage the original film."