Jaroslav Blazek was born on August 3, 1896 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a cinematographer, known for Tezký zivot dobrodruha (1941), Na Svatém Kopecku (1934) and Varhaník u sv. Víta (1929). He died on August 9, 1976 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].