Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 16, 1940
Died
Sep 20, 1994
Place of Birth
Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]
Credits
115 titles
Petr Čepek
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.
Known For
Filmography
Příběhy slavných
Self (archive footage)
Thanks for Every New Morning
Famous Writer
Faust
Faust
Mystery of the Puzzle
Narrator (voice)
Život a dílo skladatele Foltýna
Šťastlivec Sulla
Furius
Sokratův podzim
Kubeš
The Elementary School
Rádži Tamil
Honorární konzul
Lhát se nemá, princezno!
Byli jsme to my?
Svědek umírajícího času
Jan Jesenius
Dlouhá míle
trenér Hanák
Nudity
Drsnák
Křížová vazba
Grulich
Skřivánčí ticho
funkcionář Venda, Josefův bratr
Muka obraznosti
Artl, slepý krajský inspektor
Mark of Cain
Capt. Truxa
Dobrodružství kriminalistiky
William Ryan
Cesta na jihozápad
O'Brian
Druhý dech
The Damned House of Hajn
Cyril
Dobří holubi se vracejí
Strýc Karel
Ohňostroj v Aspern
Nine Circles of Hell
Tomáš David (voice)
Zrcadlo nenávisti
chiromant Janza
Magician
Ledvina
Veselé příhody z natáčení
Himself
Bitva na kopci
Jarin
Zatmění všech sluncí
vyšetřovatel
Smích se lepí na paty
hajný Fanda
Kdo se bojí, utíká
Mižikár
Etudes for Piano Students
tatínek
Landscape with Furniture
Artist Douda
Fanynka
Mít někoho do deště
Křídlovka pro Majoránka
Synové a dcery Jakuba skláře
Krupka
Tulakóna
Věčný Faust
Faust
Revue za šest korun
Extended Time
Antoš
Všichni musí být v pyžamu
Bohouš Fibich
My Sweet Little Village
Josef Turek
Dissolved and Effused
Policejní ředitel
Bambinot
Frank Williams
The Brave Blacksmith
Black King
The Three Veterans
Bimbác
The Physician of a Dying Time
Ján Jessenius
The Snowdrop Festival
řezník