lit a candle 14h agoMy wife's people are Czech, and every few months a cousin in Brno would mail us VHS tapes of Cetnicke humoresky. We watched them Sunday nights after church, the four of us on the couch in Roanoke. Pulec was in so many of those episodes he felt like family. 63 is no age at all.
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Kamil Pulec was a Czech stage, television and film actor whose name was bound for decades to Slovácké divadlo in Uherské Hradiště. Born on 1 September 1963 in Prešov (then Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia), he moved with his parents to Hluboká nad Vltavou in 1969 and trained as a building technician…
Kamil Pulec was a Czech stage, television and film actor whose name was bound for decades to Slovácké divadlo in Uherské Hradiště. Born on 1 September 1963 in Prešov (then Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia), he moved with his parents to Hluboká nad Vltavou in 1969 and trained as a building technician at the construction secondary school in České Budějovice from 1978 to 1982. After completing basic military service he joined Slovácké divadlo as an élève and, apart from a two-year spell at Jihočeské divadlo in České Budějovice from 1989 to 1991, remained a company member until he left of his own accord in 2017.
On the Uherské Hradiště stage he built a reputation for intensity and a wide emotional range. Early recognition came in 1985, when he won a Czech Literary Fund award for best male performance as Miloš Hrma in Ostře sledované vlaky. A decade later his Lenny in Of Mice and Men earned the local Slovácký Oskar (1995), and in 2000 his Samko in Gazdina roba brought him the Největší z pierotů prize. Colleagues and the theatre later recalled other signature turns: Othello, Macduff in Macbeth, Winston Churchill in The King's Speech, and Vztekloně in Cena facky. He worked with leading directors including J. A. Pitínský and was known as an actor who could not be overlooked.
Screen work was more selective but memorable. He appeared as Machačka in the family film Artuš, Merlin a Prchlíci (1995), as the prisoner Zdeněk in Klíček (2009), and in the political drama Výjimečný stav (2024). Television audiences knew him from Četnické humoresky, Černá sanitka, Případy prvního oddělení, Náhradníci and the crime series Místo zločinu Zlín. Away from the stage he practised his original trade as a draughtsman and site worker in construction, and in 2022 he published a volume of verse, Nevyzpytatelné vlny lásky.
Pulec died on 1 October 2026 after a long and serious illness. He was 63. Slovácké divadlo, Czech news outlets including iDNES, Novinky and Slovácký deník, and his family announced the death the same day. A farewell was arranged for 6 October 2026 at the funeral hall in Mařatice, Uherské Hradiště.
Biography adapted from Czech Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); Slovácký deník; iDNES; Novinky; Blesk; Slovácké divadlo statements.
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That show got my whole family through some hard winters too.