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