Josef Mach
Prostejov, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Josef Mach (25 February 1909, in Prostějov – 7 July 1987, in Prague) was a Czech actor, screenwriter and film director.

Josef Mach worked as a journalist and stage performer at the beginning of his career, then in 1938 was appointed assistant director of short films at Grafo Film Studio working with director Václav Kubásek. From 1946 Mach directed many feature films for Barrandov Studios in Prague. He is best known for The Sons of Great Bear, a 1966 Red Western film that he directed for the East German DEFA film studio.

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Tichý Američan v Praze (1978)
Director | Screenplay
Paleta lásky (1976)
Director | Screenplay
Tři nevinní (1974)
Director | Story | Screenplay
Člověk není sám (1972)
Director | Screenplay
A Killer on the Tracks (1970)
Director | Screenplay
Objížďka (1968)
Director | Story | Screenplay
Black Panthers (1966)
Director
The Sons of Great Bear (1966)
Director
Tři chlapi v chalupě (1963)
Director
Prosím, nebudit (1963)
Director | Screenplay
Florián (1961)
Director | Screenplay
Valčík pro milión (1961)
Director | Screenplay
Zatoulané dělo (1959)
Director | Screenplay
Bitter Love (1958)
Director | Screenplay
Florenc 13,30 (1957)
Director | Story | Screenplay
Playing with the Devil (1957)
Director | Screenplay
Muž v povětří (1956)
Screenplay | Screenstory
Homeland (1954)
Director | Story | Screenplay
Action B (1952)
Director
Racek Is Late (1950)
Director
Rodinné trampoty oficiála Tříšky (1949)
Director
Vzbouření na vsi (1949)
Director | Screenplay
The Green Notebook (1949)
Director | Screenplay
Na dobré stopě (1949)
Director
Dravci (1948)
Screenplay
Nobody Knows Anything (1947)
Director | Screenplay
Portáši (1947)
Screenplay
Velký případ (1946)
Director | Story | Screenplay
V horách duní (1946)
Screenplay | Director
13th district (1946)
Assistant Production Manager
Magical River (1946)
Story
Skalní plemeno (1944)
Assistant Director
Čtrnáctý u stolu (1943)
Screenplay
Městečko na dlani (1942)
Screenplay | Lyricist
Host do domu (1942)
Screenplay
Modrý závoj (1941)
Story
Lawyer of the Poor (1941)
Screenplay
Okénko do nebe (1940)
Screenplay
Dceruška k pohledání (1940)
Screenplay
Mořská panna (1939)
Assistant Director
Ženy u benzinu (1939)
Screenplay
Dvojí život (1939)
Assistant Director
Child of the Periphery (1930)
First Assistant Director