Petr Čepek
Known For
Acting
Born
1940-09-16 in Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]
Died
1994-09-20
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.
Most Known For
Bakaláři
Morgiana
as Glenar
Pan Tau
Dobrodružství kriminalistiky
as William Ryan
The Secret of Steel City
as Filbank
Příběhy slavných
as Self (archive footage)
Synové a dcery Jakuba skláře
as Krupka
The Physician of a Dying Time
as Ján Jessenius
Malý pitaval z velkého města
Rok má šesť dní
Byl jednou jeden dům
My Sweet Little Village
as Josef Turek
Straty a nálezy
Bambinot
as Frank Williams
Druhý dech
The Elementary School
as Rádži Tamil
Faust
as Faust
Ferat Vampire
as Kriz
Honorární konzul
The Fall of the House of Usher
as Narrator (voice)