Raoul Schránil

Raoul Schránil (24 March 1910 – 20 September 1998) was a Czech film actor.

Life

He was born in Most on 24 March 1910. His father Rudolf Schránil was a government secretary, his mother Alexandra Poláková was a singer. Shortly after his birth he moved to Vienna with his parents. After the World War I they moved to Prague. Schránil was expelled from high school in Prague and went to study in Germany and later in Dijon, France.

His first role was in the film Milan Rastislav Štefánik, where he played a French officer.
He died in Prague on 20 September 1998.

His daughter Xandra Schránilová was an actress in Semafor theatre. His cousin was a film director Karl Anton.

Selected filmography
 Vzdušné torpédo 48 (1937)
 Cause for Divorce (1937)
 Battalion (1937 film) (1937)
 Christian (1939)
 Eva Fools Around (1939)
 A Charming Man (1941)
 The Second Shot (1943)
 Fourteen at the Table (1943)
 In the Still of the Night (1941)
 The Catacombs (1940)
 How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1974)
 Love Between the Raindrops (1979)
 Big Beat (1993)

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Category:1910 births
Category:1998 deaths
Category:Czech male film actors
Category:20th-century Czech male actors