Petr Čepek
ActingAlso Known As
Petr Cepek, P. Cepek, Peter 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.
Movies
(98 total)
Faust
as Faust
My Sweet Little Village
as Josef Turek
The Elementary School
as Rádži Tamil
Morgiana
as Glenar
Cutting It Short
as mistr kominický de Giorgi, člen správní rady
The Valley of the Bees
as Ondřej z Vlkova
The Three Veterans
as Bimbác
Ferat Vampire
as Kriz
The Snowdrop Festival
as řezník
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
as Albert Einstein
The Fall of the House of Usher
as Narrator (voice)
Adelheid
as Viktor Chotovický
The Secret of Steel City
as Filbank
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
as arcivévoda / Nývlt
Dissolved and Effused
as Policejní ředitel
The Brave Blacksmith
as Black King
Oil Lamps
as Pavel
The Damned House of Hajn
as Cyril
The Hit
as Šus, Producer
TV Shows
(17 total)
Dobrodružství kriminalistiky
as William Ryan
Příběhy slavných
as Self (archive footage)
The Physician of a Dying Time
as Ján Jessenius
Synové a dcery Jakuba skláře
as Krupka