Petr Čepek
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: September 16, 1940
Place of Birth: Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]
Known For
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Famous Writer
as Faust
as Narrator (voice)
as Rádži Tamil
as Drsnák
as Artl, slepý krajský inspektor
as Capt. Truxa
as William Ryan
as Cyril
as Strýc Karel
as Tomáš David (voice)
as chiromant Janza
as Ledvina
as vyšetřovatel
as hajný Fanda
as tatínek
as Artist Douda
as Krupka
as Antoš
as Bohouš Fibich
as Josef Turek
as Policejní ředitel
as Black King
as Bimbác
as Ján Jessenius
as řezník
as arcivévoda / Nývlt
as Narrator (voice)
as Kriz
as Kadlík
as Stibor
as Janousek
as Šus, Producer
as mistr kominický de Giorgi, člen správní rady
as Štěpán Manya (voice)
as Bártl
as Albert (voice)
as Filbank
as Rub
as Anti
as Benda (segment "Kapsář")
as Glenar
as Vili Berger
as Black Prince (voice)
as Pavel
as Black Gamekeeper
as Ligur
as Amazis
as Albert Einstein
as Viktor Chotovický
as Ondřej z Vlkova
as Petr Hudec