Ivan Jandl

Ivan Jandl 24 January 1937 21 November 1987 was a Czech child actor He appeared in the 1948 film The Search as a nineyearold 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 From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia