Petr Čepek

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

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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.

Timeline

1994Aged 54

  • Poster for Faust

    Faust

  • Poster for Thanks for Every New Morning

    Famous Writer

1993Aged 53

1992Aged 52

1991Aged 51

1990Aged 50

1989Aged 49

1988Aged 48

1987Aged 47

1986Aged 46

1985Aged 45

1984Aged 44

1983Aged 43

1982Aged 42

1981Aged 41

1980Aged 40

  • Poster for Hordubal

    Štěpán Manya (voice)

1979Aged 39

1978Aged 38

1977Aged 37

1976Aged 36

1975Aged 35

  • Poster for The Motive for Murder

    Benda (segment "Kapsář")

  • Poster for Škaredá dědina

    (Unknown)

1974Aged 34

  • Poster for Jak přijít o život

    (Unknown)

1973Aged 33

1972Aged 32

1971Aged 31

  • Poster for Revizor

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Mandragora

    Ligur

  • Poster for Granny

    Black Gamekeeper

  • Poster for Oil Lamps

    Pavel

  • Poster for Prince Bajaja

    Black Prince (voice)

1970Aged 30

  • Poster for Naďa Urbánková's Nightmares

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Adelheid

    Viktor Chotovický

  • Poster for I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen

    Albert Einstein

  • Poster for Aesop

    Amazis

1969Aged 29

1968Aged 28

  • Poster for The Valley of the Bees

    Ondřej z Vlkova

1967Aged 27

  • Poster for Hotel for Strangers

    Petr Hudec

  • Poster for The End of Agent W4C

    (Unknown)

1963Aged 23

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