Petr Čepek

Acting

Born Sep 16, 1940

From Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]

Died Sep 20, 1994

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.

Petr Čepek

Known For

Faust

The Three Veterans

The Elementary School

Morgiana

Cutting It Short

Hordubal

Kdo se bojí, utíká

My Sweet Little Village

The Damned House of Hajn

Adelheid

Filmography — Acting

Faust

The Three Veterans

The Elementary School

Morgiana

Cutting It Short

Hordubal

Kdo se bojí, utíká

My Sweet Little Village

The Damned House of Hajn

Adelheid

The Hit

Tři v tom

The Snowdrop Festival

Aesop

Night Riders

Nudity

Byli jsme to my?

I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen

Putování Jana Amose

Magician

The End of Agent W4C

Svědek umírajícího času

Život a dílo skladatele Foltýna

The Death of Black King

Etudes for Piano Students

Revizor

Granny

Ferat Vampire

Dobří holubi se vracejí

The Secret of Steel City

Landscape with Furniture

Křížová vazba

Muka obraznosti

Pracka v láhvi

The Fall of the House of Usher

Sluníčko na houpačce

Prince Bajaja

The Valley of the Bees

Nikola Šuhaj loupežník

Cesta na jihozápad

The Brave Blacksmith

A Touch of a Butterfly

Concert for the survivors

The Motive for Murder

Tulakóna

The Cat Prince

Návraty

Smích se lepí na paty

Súkromná vojna

Fanynka

Hotel for Strangers

Škaredá dědina

Past na kachnu

Thanks for Every New Morning

Looking Back

Nine Circles of Hell

Mark of Cain

Polka viva

Diagnóza smrti

Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping

Jak zničit vlastní mužstvo

Jasnovidec

Všichni musí být v pyžamu

Zrcadlo nenávisti

Portrait

Oil Lamps

Ráno pod mesiacom