Karol Machata

Karol Machata was born into a working-class family in Malacky. As dvanásťročný he started in radio and he ochotníckemu theatre. Finally, he preferred before the ekonómiou just drama. In the years 1948 - 1950 he studied acting at the State conservatory in Bratislava and in 1952 -1953 he worked in the Armádnom theatre in Martin. Karol Machata is among the most significant representatives of Slovak drama of the post-war generation. The first task depicted by the theatrical boards in Martin. He introduced himself in the staging of Sládkovičovej Maríny (1948), Assassination (character member of a group of bombers to Heydricha, 1949), trying to play a character Fortinbrasa in Shakespearovom Hamletovi (1950). Its title character Geľa Sebechlebského (1952), and Janosik (1953) zožali a sweeping success. A further forty-five years he was a member of Činohry of the Slovak national theatre in Bratislava, he worked in it in the years 1953 - 1998. He became a versatile actor. He managed to portray heroic roles, but excelled in komediálnych whether lyrických positions. In the film debuted the character of the Slovak glider in the Czech film Vítezná's 1950, and since then he was among the najobsadzovanejších film and tv actors. He played in dozens of Slovak films, which belong to the golden fund of Slovak cinematography: Zemianska honor, st. Peter's Umbrella, the Interrupted song, the Song of the grey holubovi, Polnočná the mass, the Crime of miss Bacilpýšky, Sin Catherine Padychovej, Hidden spring, Red wine, Salt over gold, whether Geľo Sebechlebský, and many more. For significant merit in the field of theatre, film and radio, making him the president in the year 2003, granted the state vyznamenie Pribinov cross II. class. In 2005, he took the price of the Tatrabanka art and in 2008 he received the price of the OTO and was inducted into the Hall of fame.