Stock Photo - Famous Czech-American actor Jan Triska attends the premiere of Czech film Po strnisti bos (Barefoot) in Prague, Czech Republic, August 16, 2017. Jan Triska, who was living in the United States, died at the age of 80 years in the night, actor and director Jiri Madl told the iDnes.cz server today, September 25, 2017. Triska was hospitalised in a serious condition after falling down from Charles Bridge in Prague centre on Saturday. ""This is unfortunately true,"" the server cites Madl, who will direct the film Na strese (On the Roof) in which Triska was to play the leading role. The shooting was postponed. The police are investigating the unclear circumstances of Triska's fall from the bridge. Triska, a good friend of the late president and dissident Vaclav Havel, was one of the most talented actors of the young generation in the 1960s when he was dubbed Czech Marlon Brando. He fled the communist Czechoslovakia for the West in 1977. Later, he moved with his family to the United States and they settled down in Hollywood in 1982. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)