Czech actor Pavel Landovsky dies at 78

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Published October 11, 2014 10:31am ET

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Czech actor Pavel Landovsky dies at 78 — FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2011 file picture Czech actor, dissident, a signatory of human rights manifesto Charter 77 and former member of Vienna's Burgtheater Pavel Landovsky poses for photographers at his house in Kytin (about 40 kms south of Prague), Czech Republic. Landovsky died aged 78 on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, the server iDnes writes on Saturday. The news was confirmed by Landovsky's family. Landovsky was one of the most popular Czechoslovak actors in the 1960s, having played in many films, such as the Oscar-winning 'Closely Watched Trains' by Jiri Menzel from 1966. (AP Photo/CTK, Martin Sterba, Rene Fluger, File) | Martin Sterba, Rene Fluger

PRAGUE (AP) — Pavel Landovsky, a Czech actor, anti-communist dissident and a friend of late president and playwright Vaclav Havel, has died.

Landovsky, 78, died Friday of a heart attack, his family announced to the national CTK news agency on Saturday.

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