Petr Čepek
Born: 1940-09-16 in Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]
Died: 1994-09-20
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2000
- Příběhy slavných as Self (archive footage)
1994
- Faust as Faust
- Thanks for Every New Morning as Famous Writer
1993
- Život a dílo skladatele Foltýna
- Mystery of the Puzzle as Narrator (voice)
1992
- Šťastlivec Sulla as Furius
1991
- Honorární konzul
- Dlouhá míle as trenér Hanák
- The Elementary School as Rádži Tamil
- Svědek umírajícího času as Jan Jesenius
- Byli jsme to my?
- Lhát se nemá, princezno!
- Sokratův podzim as Kubeš
1990
- Nudity as Drsnák
- Muka obraznosti as Artl, slepý krajský inspektor
- Skřivánčí ticho as funkcionář Venda, Josefův bratr
- Křížová vazba as Grulich
1989
- Dobrodružství kriminalistiky as William Ryan
- Druhý dech
- The Damned House of Hajn as Cyril
- Mark of Cain as Capt. Truxa
- Cesta na jihozápad as O'Brian
- Dobří holubi se vracejí as Strýc Karel
- Ohňostroj v Aspern
1988
- Veselé příhody z natáčení as Himself
- Magician as Ledvina
- Nine Circles of Hell as Tomáš David (voice)
- Zrcadlo nenávisti as chiromant Janza
1987
- Kdo se bojí, utíká as Mižikár
- Landscape with Furniture as Artist Douda
- Zatmění všech sluncí as vyšetřovatel
- Smích se lepí na paty as hajný Fanda
- Etudes for Piano Students as tatínek
- Fanynka
- Bitva na kopci as Jarin
1985
- My Sweet Little Village as Josef Turek
- Revue za šest korun
- Všichni musí být v pyžamu as Bohouš Fibich
- Dissolved and Effused as Policejní ředitel
- Věčný Faust as Faust
- Extended Time as Antoš
1984
- The Physician of a Dying Time as Ján Jessenius
- Bambinot as Frank Williams
- The Three Veterans as Bimbác
- The Snowdrop Festival as řezník
- Polka viva
- The Brave Blacksmith as Black King
1983
1982
- Portrait as Alfréd Kalvoda
- Ferat Vampire as Kriz
- The Fall of the House of Usher as Narrator (voice)
- Kamenný orchestr as Kadlík
1981
- Had z ráje as František Krumlovský
- Bocianie hniezdo
- The Hit as Šus, Producer
- Cutting It Short as mistr kominický de Giorgi, člen správní rady
- Jasnovidec
- Sluníčko na houpačce as Stibor
- Night Riders as Janousek
- Tři v tom as Horatio
- Loupežnická pohádka
1980
- Hordubal as Štěpán Manya (voice)
- Najatý klaun as Michal Caban
1979
- The Secret of Steel City as Filbank
- The Cat Prince as Albert (voice)
- Pracka v láhvi as Wesley
- Diagnóza smrti as Bártl
- Pohádka o ebenovém koni
- Ráno pod mesiacom
1977
1975
- Byl jednou jeden dům
- The Motive for Murder as Benda (segment "Kapsář")
- Škaredá dědina
1973
1972
- Bakaláři
- Morgiana as Glenar
- The Death of Black King as Vili Berger
- Návraty
- A Touch of a Butterfly as Cizinec
- Cestující se připraví k odletu
1971
- Granny as Black Gamekeeper
- Mandragora as Ligur
- Prince Bajaja as Black Prince (voice)
- Oil Lamps as Pavel
- Revizor
1970
- Pan Tau
- I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen as Albert Einstein
- Adelheid as Viktor Chotovický
- Naďa Urbánková's Nightmares
- Aesop as Amazis
1969
- Looking Back as František Černý
1968
- The Valley of the Bees as Ondřej z Vlkova
1967
- Hotel for Strangers as Petr Hudec
- The End of Agent W4C