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.
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Full filmography
- Bakaláři (1972)
- Dobrodružství kriminalistiky (1989) as William Ryan
- Příběhy slavných (2000) as Self (archive footage)
- Pan Tau (1970)
- Malý pitaval z velkého města (1983)
- The Physician of a Dying Time (1984) as Ján Jessenius
- Byl jednou jeden dům (1975)
- Morgiana (1972) as Glenar
- Faust (1994) as Faust
- Synové a dcery Jakuba skláře (1986) as Krupka
- Bambinot (1984) as Frank Williams
- The Three Veterans (1984) as Bimbác
- Had z ráje (1981) as František Krumlovský
- Honorární konzul (1991)
- Bocianie hniezdo (1981)
- Druhý dech (1989)
- Rok má šesť dní (1976)
- Straty a nálezy (1974)
- Mandragora (1971) as Ligur
- Veselé příhody z natáčení (1988) as Himself
- The Valley of the Bees (1968) as Ondřej z Vlkova
- My Sweet Little Village (1985) as Josef Turek
- The Damned House of Hajn (1989) as Cyril
- I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970) as Albert Einstein