Vlasta Vrána
Vlasta Vrána is a Canadian actor of Czech descent.
Life and career
Vrána, born to Czech parents in Norway, moved to Canada at age four. He made his feature-film debut in Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg's Shivers. Vrána has appeared in television shows and films, including The New Avengers, The Littlest Hobo, Choices, Spearfield's Daughter, The Kiss, War of the Worlds, After Amy, All Souls, ', Windsor Protocol, Lobby, ', Sirens, All Souls, Mom P.I., The Hitchhiker, Press Run, Waking the Dead, Varian's War, Pachamama, and The Blue Man.In 2005 he received an Award of Excellence from ACTRA Montreal and the Richard Kind Award for Best Actor at the 2005 Trenton Film Festival for his lead role in B. P. Paquette's psychological drama, A Year in the Death of Jack Richards. Vrána played Fire Chief Wickersham in Secret Window and Booker in The Day After Tomorrow.
Voice-acting credits include Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell, Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal 2000 and The Mysterious Cities of Gold, documentaries and radio and TV commercials. He narrated the Canada Vignettes and other films for the National Film Board of Canada.
Personal life
While attending university, he boarded in a third-floor room of a house in Westmount, Quebec a few months before the owner of the house shot himself. The house would later turn out to be supposedly haunted.Filmography
- Shivers as Kresimer Sviben
- Rabid as Cop at Clinic
- One Man as Gendron's Colleague
- The New Avengers as Karavitch
- Strangers at the Door as Jan
- Back Alley Blue
- Blackout
- Canada Vignettes as Narrator
- L'homme en colère as Le gérant du club
- ' as Radio Operator
- Meet the Martians as Narrator
- No Fighting Habitat as Narrator
- The Littlest Hobo as Policeman
- Atmos as Narrator
- Happy Birthday to Me as Bartender
- Gas as Baron Stuyvesant
- Heavy Metal as Barbarian Leader
- The Amateur as Guide
- Ulysses 31 as Zeus
- Astro Boy
- Belle and Sebastian
- The Emperor of Peru as Policeman
- Hard Feelings as Mr. Holland
- End Game in Paris
- A Room Full of Energy as Narrator
- The Forbes Home as Narrator
- Illusion as Ben Grover
- The Mysterious Cities of Gold as Narrator and Kokapelt
- Candy the Striper as Guy at Bar
- ' as Murphy
- A Matter of Cunning as Ted Haskell
- Hey Babe! as Roy
- The Surrogate as Bill
- Charlie Grant's War as Police Chief
- The Adventures of the Little Koala as Weather
- Secret Weapons as Ivan
- The Hitchhiker as Mark Greenburg / Undercover Cop #2
- Breaking All the Rules as Detective
- One Step Away
- A Time to Live as Policeman Grosso
- The Blue Man as Scott
- The World Turned Upside Down as Narrator
- The World of David the Gnome as Swift
- Bumpety Boo
- Choices as Minister
- C.A.T. Squad
- The Morning Man
- Cat City as Mr. Gatto
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- He Shoots, He Scores as Popov
- Keeping Track as Chuck
- Great Collections from the Montreal Botanical Garden as Narrator
- Age of the Rivers as Narrator
- Spearfield's Daughter as Gerd
- The Lonely Passion of Brian Moore as Narrator
- Life on Ice as Narrator
- Amerika as Sergei
- ' as William Murphy
- Nowhere to Hide as Sonny Cambria
- First Offender
- ' as Katsender
- The Man Who Stole Dreams as Narrator
- Dreams of a Land as Narrator
- The Gnomes' Great Adventure as Swift
- Arctic River as Narrator
- Equatorial River Narrator
- A Safety Net as Narrator
- God Bless the Child as Harold Matthews
- '
- Edge of Ice as Narrator
- Hitting Home as Phil Grande
- The Kiss as Bishop
- Midnight Magic as Ryan Burr
- The Mills of Power
- Red Earth, White Earth as William
- Day One as Hans Bethe
- Champagne Charlie
- Jesus of Montreal as Fr. Leclerc
- ' as Frank
- ' as Narrator
- Saban's Adventures of Peter Pan
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Paul Revere
- War of the Worlds as Jonathan Laporte
- ' Webster Eby / Sheriff
- Falling Over Backwards as Drunk
- Angel Square as Logg
- Whispers as Sheriff Laurenski
- The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty The King
- Money as Mel Glatzman
- ' as Lt. Gelson
- Deadly Surveillance as Palatzo
- Saban's Adventures of the Little Mermaid
- The Jungle Book as Grizzle
- Counterstrike as Detective Samuelson and Lt. Samuelson
- Bob in a Bottle
- Saban's Adventures of Pinocchio
- Mom P.I.
- ' as Narrator
- Gulliver's Travels
- Sharky and George
- Sandokan
- A Bunch of Munsch
- The Legend of White Fang
- Urban Angel as Lieutenant Drabeck
- Christopher Columbus
- Spirou
- The Adventures of Grady Greenspace as Rafia Rat
- Around the World in 80 Dreams
- Street Legal as Howard Champion / Mario Pestano
- The Rise and Fall of English Montreal as Narrator
- Flight from Justice as Nathan
- ' as Benny
- The Lifeforce Experiment as Dr. Robbie Allman
- Brainscan as Frank
- Papa Beaver's Storytime
- Warriors as Mr. Parker
- Stalked as Sanders
- ' as Vorisek
- Relative Fear as Mr. Schulman
- Aventures dans le Grand Nord as Jacques
- Sirens as Arnold Freize
- Hiroshima as Gen. Tom Farrell
- Crosswinds as Harry
- ' as Dr. Zimmerman
- Midnight in Saint Petersburg as Hans Schreiber
- Due South as Henri Cloutier
- Hollow Point as FBI Agent in Chase
- Marked Man as Warden Jackson
- The Magical Adventures of Quasimodo as Frollo / Prison Guard
- Mother Night as August Krapptauer
- Gotti as Romual Piecyk
- Hawk's Vengeance as Duquesne
- The Busy World of Richard Scarry
- '
- While My Pretty One Sleeps as Bishop
- Night of the Demons 3 as Dewhurst
- Stranger in the House as Alex Alexander
- The Peacekeeper as General Douglas
- The Assignment as KGB Head Officer
- Windsor Protocol as Hardy's Aide
- Lobby as Jacques Baldwin
- Kayla as Lyman Snow
- Night Hood
- The Little Lulu Show
- Princess Sissi
- Ivanhoe Reginald Front-de-Boeuf
- The Hunger as Boatman / Rhys
- Glory and Hunger as Morris Jesup
- Thunder Point
- Escape from Wildcat Canyon as Tully
- The Ultimate Weapon as 'Top' Drummond
- The Girl Next Door as Howard Poolin
- Team S.O.S.
- Flight Squad
- Dog's World
- Animal Crackers
- The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures
- To a Different Beat as Narrator
- L'ombre de l'épervier as De LaRosbille
- Cold Squad as Valentin Kucharek
- ' as Franklin Roosevelt
- The Collectors as Sgt Grander
- Eye of the Beholder as Mr. Hugo Sr.
- Grey Owl as Harry Champlin
- Emily of New Moon as Wendall McKay
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as Mr. Van Tassle
- Running Home as Robinson
- The Maurice Rocket Richard Story as Voix à la radio
- Revenge of the Land
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!
- Billy and Buddy
- Bizby
- Turtle Island
- A Miss Mallard Mystery
- Waking the Dead as Priest at Sarah's Funeral
- Press Run as Sam Kettle
- Revenge as Dan McCartney
- Reaper as Sheriff Norris
- Believe as Mortimer Higgins
- Where the Money Is as Jewelry Store Employee
- Heavy Metal 2000 as Street Vendor
- The List
- Cause of Death as Al Bailey
- ' as George McBlair
- All Souls as Dr. Lyman Brisco
- Varian's War as Franz Werfel
- ' as Dr. Charles Cook
- L'or as Vlad Kovak
- After Amy
- Protection as Shimanski
- Wunschpunsch as Maledictus Maggot
- Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings
- Iron Nose
- Wombat City
- Belphegor
- The Lost World
- Fidel as Narrator
- Requiem for Fanny as Narrator
- ' as Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Redeemer as Edward Chase
- Big Wolf on Campus as Professor Flugelhoff / King Augustus
- Just a Walk in the Park as Publisher
- The Book of Eve as Steve Lock
- Scent of Danger as Dr. York
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
- Alone We Stand as Narrator
- Pig City
- Levity as Man on Parole Board
- Lucky Luke as Joe Dalton
- ' as Ray Harding
- The Human Stain as Solly Tabak
- Timeline as Monk
- Bad Apple as Fleisig
- Secret Window as Fire Chief Wickersham
- The Day After Tomorrow as Booker
- Wicker Park as Jeweller
- Baby for Sale
- A Year in the Death of Jack Richards as Jack Richards
- Manners of Dying as Doctor Lowe
- When Angels Come to Town as Franz
- Tripping the Rift
- Life and Times, John Paul II
- Ocean Tales
- The Three Pigs
- Potatoes and Dragons
- Ratz
- Winx Club
- Dragon Hunters
- The Boy
- The Tournament as Coach Jenkins
- Crimes of Passion as Malcolm McBradden
- Spookley the Square Pumpkin as Narrator
- Human Trafficking as Tommy
- Canadian Case Files as Narrator
- Black Eyed Dog as Andreas
- My Goldfish is Evil
- A Life Interrupted as Committee Chairman
- I Me Wed as Roy
- Race to Mars as Space Agency Narrator
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Judge Shoehan
- Lava Storm as Mike Wilson
- ' as Official
- ' as Ivan Prokosh
- The Christmas Choir
- ' as Gregor
- Carny as Pastor Owen
- The Last Templar as Taxi Driver
- ' as Maitre D'
- Arctic Blast as Narrator
- Territories as Sheriff White
- ' as Detective Chase
- ' as Manuel Palailogos
- Upside Down as Mr. Hunt
- Pinocchio as Mangiafuoco / The Jailer
- ' as Introductory Narrator
- Red 2 as General McKennon
- The Informant as Contrôleur Nichols
- Gurov and Anna as Audiobook Narrator
- The Perfect Husband as Gardener
- ' as Salvation Army Santa
- Race as St-John
- 19-2 as Bob's Father
- as Otar Botkoveli
- The Glass Castle as Mr. Lehocky
- The Zone as Stalker
- Pachamama as Shaman
- Les Misérables'' as Voice Director