Juraj Herz

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Juraj Herz
Born	(1934-09-04)4 September 1934 Kežmarok, Czechoslovakia (now Kežmarok, Slovakia)
Died	8 April 2018(2018-04-08) (aged 83) Prague,[1] Czech Republic
Occupation(s)	Film director Screenwriter Actor
Years active	1961–2018

Juraj Herz (4 September 1934 – 8 April 2018) was a Slovak film director, actor, and scene designer, associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s.^[2][3] He is best known for his 1969 horror/black comedy The Cremator, often cited as one of the best Czechoslovak films of all time,^[2][4] though many of his other films achieved cult status.^[5] He directed for both film and television, and in the latter capacity he directed episodes of a French-Czech television series based on George Simenon's Maigret novels.