Juraj Herz (4 September 1934 - 8 April 2018) was a Slovak film director, actor, and scene designer, associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s.[2][3] He is best known for his 1969 horror/black comedy The Cremator, often cited as one of the best Czechoslovak films of all time,[2][3] although many of his other films achieved cult status.[5] He directed for both film and television, and in the latter capacity he directed episodes of a French-Czech television series based on George Simenon's Maigret novels.
