By profession, Ivan Jandl is an actor, though few details of his career have been documented. His filmography opens in 1947. His name appears on 3 credits. 'The Search' is the title most often attached to his name, where he plays Karel Malik aka 'Jim'/'Jimmy'.
Ivan Jandl
50 years (Jan 24, 1937 – Nov 21, 1987)Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
3 Movies
By profession, Ivan Jandl is an actor, though few details of his career have been documented. His filmography opens in 1947. His name appears on 3 credits. 'The Search' is the title most often attached to his name, where he plays Karel Malik aka 'Jim'/'Jimmy'.
Ivan Jandl (24 January 1937 – 21 November 1987) was a Czech child actor. He appeared in the 1948 film The Search as a nine-year-old Czech boy who had survived Auschwitz and was searching for his mother in postwar Germany. The boy spoke no English and had to learn his lines phonetically. He was awarded an Academy Juvenile Award for his work, but was not permitted to travel to the USA to accept it. He appeared in some Czech films in 1949 and 1950, then left acting to continue his studies. He tried unsuccessfully to continue his acting career in his late teens, and eventually found work in radio.