Actor
Born Aug 8, 1946
Awards: Czech Medal of Merit, 1st class, honorary citizen of Prague 2, participant in the resistance and resistance against communism, Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Václav Benda was a Czech Roman Catholic activist, intellectual and mathematician. Under Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, Benda and his wife were rare in that they were devout Roman Catholics among the leadership of the anti-communist…