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Petr Čepek

Actor
Born September 16, 1940Died September 20, 1994 (54 years)
Petr Čepek was a Czech actor associated with The Drama Club in Prague. His final film was Faust, directed by Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer. Cepek attended the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) along with many notable Czech actors of the time, before appearing in Ostrava’s first theater, DPB until 1965.  After joining with fellow colleagues in Prague’s Činoherní Klub, where he contributed to the formation of numerous famous theatre productions such as Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Gogo’s Revizor (The Government Inspector).   Čepek turned to politics in the late 1980s, participating in political rallies and negotiations before returning to the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) to teach until his death in 1994.  Čepek was honored posthumously for his double role in the Švankmajers film Faust.
Known For
  • Faust
  • The Valley of the Bees
  • My Sweet Little Village
  • Adelheid
  • The Three Veterans
  • Cutting it Short
  • The Snowdrop Festivities
  • Morgiana
  • Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
  • Oil Lamps
  • Ferat Vampire
  • I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
  • Hotel for Strangers
  • Dissolved and Effused
  • O statecném kovári
  • The Hit
  • The Secret of Steel City
  • Uncle Cyril
  • Landscape with Furniture
  • Smích se lepí na paty
  • Mág

Filmography

1994
Díky za kazdé nové ráno · as Famous Writer
1994
Faust · as Faust
1993
Záhada hlavolamu · as Vypravěč
1991
Wolfgang A. Mozart · as Ignaz Born
1991
The Elementary School · as Rádži Tamil
1990
Muka obraznosti · as Artl, Slepý Krajský Inspektor
1989
The Adventure Of Criminology (TV Series) · as William Ryan
1989
Uncle Cyril · as Cyril
1989
Dobrí holubi se vracejí · as Strýc Karel
1988
Druhý dech (TV Series)
1988
Devet kruhu pekla · as Tomás
1988
Mág · as Ledvina
1987
Smích se lepí na paty · as Hajný Fanda
1987
Landscape with Furniture · as Artist Douda
1986
1985
Vsichni musí být v pyzamu · as Bohouš Fibich
1985
My Sweet Little Village · as Josef Turek
1985
Dissolved and Effused · as Policejní Ředitel
1984
Prodlouzený cas · as Antoš
1984
Bambinot (TV Series) · as Frank Williams
1984
The Three Veterans · as Bimbác
1984
1983
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping · as Arcivévoda / Nývlt
1983
O statecném kovári · as Black King
1982
1982
The Fall of the House of Usher · as Narrator (voice)
1982
Ferat Vampire · as Kriz
1981
Nocní jazdci · as Janousek
1981
The Hit · as Šus, Producer
1981
Cutting it Short · as Mistr Kominický De Giorgi, Člen Správní Rady
1979
Diagnóza smrti · as Bártl
1979
Poplach v oblacích · as Orlando
1979
Kocicí princ · as Albert (voice)
1979
1978
1975
The Motive for Murder · as Benda (segment "kapsář")
1974
1972
Morgiana · as Glenar
1972
The Death of Black King · as Vili Berger
1971
Prince Bajaja · as Black Prince (voice)
1971
Oil Lamps · as Pavel
1971
Granny · as Black Gamekeeper
1970
Pan Tau (TV Series)
1970
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen · as Albert Einstein
1969
Adelheid · as Viktor Chotovický
1968
The Valley of the Bees · as Ondřej Z Vlkova
1967
1967
Hotel for Strangers · as Petr Hudec

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