Viliam Gruska was born on September 24, 1936 in Ruzomberok, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He was a production designer and art director, known for The Feather Fairy (1985), Field Lilies (1972) and Hriech Kataríny Padychovej (1973). He died on September 23, 2019 in Bratislava, Slovakia.