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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1932-10-25 (92 years old)

Place of Birth

Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)

Theodor Pištěk

Biography:

Theodor Pištěk (born 25 October 1932 in Prague) is a Czech artist known for creating photo-realistic drawings and paintings, movie costumes and decorations. He won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for the film Amadeus, and received an Academy Award nomination in the same category for the film Valmont.

He is the son of actor Theodor Pištěk and Marie Ženíšková. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague as a pupil of Vratislav Nejezchleba. In 1967, he designed the art concept for the pavilion Člověk a jeho svět (Man and his World) at the Expo Montreal. In the 1970s, after he left the career of a car racer, he focused more on painting and art installation.

He participated in around 105 films, his works were exhibited at dozens of exhibitions around the world. In the 1970s, Pištěk created cartoons for the children's magazine Ohníček. He is the creator of the Prague Castle Guard uniforms.

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Known For

Acting

2020

2002

The Making of 'Amadeus' as Self - Costume & Make-up

1957

Costume & Make-Up

2003

1996

The People vs. Larry Flynt as Costume Design

1989

Valmont as Costume Design

1986

Shades of Fern as Costume Design

1984

Rumburak as Costume Design
Amadeus as Costume Design

1983

Salt & Gold as Costume Design
The Visitors as Costume Design

1982

Serpent's Poison as Costume Design
Dostih as Costume Design
The Balad of Mamelouk as Costume Design
Zelená vlna as Costume Design
Ferat Vampire as Costume Design

1981

Cutting It Short as Costume Design
Concert as Costume Design
Mature Wine as Costume Design

1980

Brontosaurus as Costume Design
Arabela as Costume Design

1979

House Call as Costume Design
The Cat Prince as Costume Design
Death of Hitch-Hikers as Costume Design
Postavení mimo hru as Costume Design
Prince and the Evening Star as Costume Designer

1978

Alarm in the Clouds as Costume Design
How to Wake a Princess as Costume Design
Shadows of a Hot Summer as Costume Design
On the Great River as Costume Design
Settlement of Crows as Costume Design

1977

Long Live Ghosts! as Costume Design
A Nice Plate of Spinach as Costume Design
Přikázaný směr jízdy as Costume Design

1976

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! as Costume Design
Wine Working as Costume Design
Summer with a Cowboy as Costume Design
Boys Will Be Boys as Costume Design

1975

Kto odchádza v daždi... as Costume Design
Dva muži hlásí příchod as Costume Design
Na konci světa as Costume Design
Zbraně pro Prahu as Costume Design
This Is How Love Begins... as Costume Design
Hotel Pacific as Costume Design

1974

Robinson Girl as Costume Designer
Siroty as Costume Design
The Fair Is Here as Costume Design
Jakou barvu má láska as Costume Design
Tři nevinní as Costume Design
Pavlínka as Costume Design
Vodník a Zuzana as Costume Design

1973

Legenda, the Robber as Costume Design
Love as Costume Design
Three Wishes for Cinderella as Costume Design
Three Men Travelling as Costume Design
Death Chooses as Costume Design

1972

The Girl on the Broomstick as Makeup Designer
Vím, že jsi vrah... as Costume Design
Touha Sherlocka Holmese as Costume Design
About Show-White as Costume Design
The Girl on the Broomstick as Costume Design
Six Bears and a Clown as Costume Design
We, the Lost Girls as Costume Design
Vlak do stanice Nebe as Costume Design

1971

You Are a Widow, Sir as Costume Design
Luk královny Dorotky as Costume Design
Hry lásky šálivé as Costume Design

1970

Case for a Rookie Hangman as Costume Design
Adelheid as Costume Designer
Pan Tau as Costume Design

1969

Prague Nights as Costume Design

1968

The Valley of the Bees as Costume Design

1967

Poklad byzantského kupce as Costume Design
Marketa Lazarová as Costume Design
Happy End as Costume Design

1965

Bubny as Costume Design

1963

Tarzanova smrt as Costume Design
Blbec z Xeenemünde as Costume Design

1962

The Devil's Trap as Costume Design

1960

The White Dove as Costume Designer

Art

1982

Ferat Vampire as Title Designer
Ferat Vampire as Special Props

1967

Marketa Lazarová as Art Designer

1960

The White Dove as Art Designer