Stock Photo - In this January 6, 2010, file picture former Czech President Vaclav Havel, center, actor Pavel Landovsky, right, and bishop Vaclav Maly, left, leave after passing on a protest against imprisonment of Chinese opposite activist Liu Xiaobo to the mailbox of the Chinese embassy in Prague. Czech actor, dissident, a signatory of human rights manifesto Charter 77 and former Burgtheater member Pavel Landovsky died aged 78 on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, the server iDnes writes today. 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. He was one of the first signatories of Charter 77. In 1978, the Communist authorities forced him to leave Czechoslovakia. Landovsky stayed in Austria where he continued his career as an actor in the prestigious Burgtheater in Vienna. After the Communist regime was ousted in 1989, he returned to Czechoslovakia. Landovsky was one of the friends of late former president and playwright Vaclav Havel. (CTK Photo/Michal Krumphanzl)