Petr Čepek
Actor
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.
Filmography
Faust
as Faust 1994
Morgiana
as Glenar 1972
The Elementary School
as Rádži Tamil 1991
Cutting It Short
as mistr kominický de Giorgi, člen správní rady 1981
The Valley of the Bees
as Ondřej z Vlkova 1968
The Three Veterans
as Bimbác 1984
Ferat Vampire
as Kriz 1982
The Snowdrop Festival
as řezník 1984
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
as Albert Einstein 1970
The Fall of the House of Usher
as Narrator (voice) 1982
Adelheid
as Viktor Chotovický 1970
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
as arcivévoda / Nývlt 1983
The Secret of Steel City
as Filbank 1979
Dissolved and Effused
as Policejní ředitel 1985
The Brave Blacksmith
as Black King 1984
The End of Agent W4C
1967