Karl Merkatz
Born: 1930-11-17 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Died: 2022-12-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
Karl Merkatz (17 November 1930 – 4 December 2022) was an Austrian actor. Merkatz was born on 17 November 1930 in Wiener Neustadt, the son of a toolmaker. He first wanted to become a carpenter. After World War II he was an active Boy Scout in Wiener Neustadt. However, later he started to enroll in acting lessons in Salzburg, Vienna and Zurich. Then he found employment in theatres, most notably in Munich, Salzburg, Hamburg and Vienna. During his later career he starred in several roles in television and motion pictures. In the role of Edmund Sackbauer (Mundl) in the 1970s, he became famous as the typical Viennese. Another big success came with the films "Bockerer" starring as a naive Viennese during the Second World War in Vienna (the later films are set in the subsequent years to 1945). From 1999, Merkatz was chairman of the human rights group SOS Mitmensch. Merkatz died in Straßwalchen on 4 December 2022, at the age of 92. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
2022
- Österreichische Fernsehjuwele as self
2018
- Thema as Self
2015
- Der Blunzenkönig as Blunzenkönig“ Franz König senior
- Little Big Voice as Siegried
2013
- Stöckl as Self
- Franz Antel - Meister der Unterhaltung as Himself
2012
- Move On as Anton
- Aus dem Archiv as Self
2011
- Coming of Age as Bruno
2010
- Erlesen as self
- Echte Wiener 2 - Die Deppat'n und die Gspritzt'n as Edmund Sackbauer („Mundl“)
- Karl Merkatz - Vom Tischler zum echten Wiener as self
2009
- Lasko – Die Faust Gottes as Magnus
- Zapping-Alien@Mozart-Balls as Einstein
2008
- Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga as Edmund „Mundl” Sackbauer
- The Secret of Loch Ness as Opa Bender
2007
- Da wo es noch Treue gibt as Pfarrer
2006
- König Ottokars Glück und Ende as Benesch von Diedicz
2004
- Frechheit siegt as Paul Weinstein
2003
- Summer With The Ghosts as Otto
- Der Bockerer IV - Prager Frühling as Karl Bockerer
- Zwei Väter einer Tochter as Paul Weinstein
2002
- Ein himmlisches Weihnachtsgeschenk as Willi Unger
- Ein Hund kam in die Küche as Inspektor Ludwig
- On the Other Side of the Bridge as Old Roland
2001
- Ene mene muh – und tot bist du as Hubi Förster
2000
- Der Bockerer III - Die Brücke von Andau as Karl Bockerer
1998
- Drei Herren as Ezechiel Dölken
- Die Neue - Eine Frau mit Kaliber as Archivar
1997
- The Unfish as Herr Johler
- Das ewige Lied as Angerer Wirt
1996
- Schlosshotel Orth as Hubert Prohaska
- Der Bulle von Tölz as Hofrat Rudolf Matuschek
- Stockinger as Gendarm Alois Schefel
- Klinik unter Palmen as Nestor Gomez
- Der Bockerer II - Österreich ist frei as Karl Bockerer
1995
- Der Spritzen-Karli as Spritzen-Karli
1994
- Mundl - Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter as Edmund Sackbauer
- Der Mann von La Mancha as Don Quixote / Cervantes
1993
- Rosamunde Pilcher: Stürmische Begegnung as Pettifer
- Aufgspielt wird... in Joschi's Beisl as Joschi
1992
- Der Bergdoktor as Ludwig Breinfalk
- Im Schatten der Gipfel as Vinzenz Kerschbaume
- Mord im Wald as Sandler
1990
- Romy Award as Self
- Der Bienenkönig as uncle Rudi
1989
- In Zeiten wie diesen as Herr Milanovits
- Der Rausschmeisser as Filialleiter
1987
- Lethal Obsession as Josef Blach
- Der Ochsenkrieg as Runotter
1986
- Junger Frühling as David O. Bluhm
- The Lenz Papers as Böning
- Irgendwie und Sowieso as Kerschbaumer
1983
- Der Waldbauernbub - Weihnacht in der Waldheimat as Bremer Sepp
1981
- A Case For Two as Karl Lohse
- The Butcher as Karl Bockerer
- The Living Corpse as Iwan
1979
- Feuer! as Anzenberg
- Esch oder Die Anarchie as Korn - Zolladjunkt
- Easy Radler - Abenteuer in Australien as Karl Roitinger
1976
- Club 2 as Self
- Jakob der Letzte as Rodel
- Young Dr. Freud as Dr. Josef Breuer
1975
- Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter as Edmund „Mundl“ Sackbauer
- Totstellen as Capo
1973
- Zwischen den Flügen as Krause
1971
- König Johann as Leopold, Herzog von Österreich
1970
- Scene of the Crime as Oberinspektor Glauber
1969
- Doppelagent George Blake
- Die Erben des tollen Bomberg as Der Pfarrer
1968
- Hafenkrankenhaus as Karl Schiefert
1967
1966
- Polizeifunk ruft as Kurt Narwitz
- Die hundertste Nacht as Fujima
1964
- Das Duell as 2. Sekundant
- Romeo und Julia as Erster Musikant
1951
- German Film Award as Self