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Petr Čepek

Petr Čepek

Birthday: 1940-09-16 | Place of Birth: Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1994
Faust

as    Faust

1989
The Damned House of Hajn

as    Cyril

1985
My Sweet Little Village

as    Josef Turek

1984
O statečném kováři

as    Black King

1984
Dissolved and Effused

as    Policejní ředitel

1982
Ferat Vampire

as    Kriz

1982
The Fall of the House of Usher

as    Narrator (voice)

1979
The Secret of Steel City

as    Filbank

1972
Morgiana

as    Glenar