Karl Merkatz
Known for ActingBorn 1930-11-17 — died 2022-12-04Wiener Neustadt, Austria
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.
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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.
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Known for
Move On
2012 · as Anton
Rosamunde Pilcher: Stürmische Begegnung
1993 · as Pettifer
Feuer!
1979 · as Anzenberg
Der Bockerer IV - Prager Frühling
2003 · as Karl Bockerer
Totstellen
1975 · as Capo
Lethal Obsession
1987 · as Josef Blach
Egmont
1967
Das ewige Lied
1997 · as Angerer Wirt
The Unfish
1997 · as Herr Johler
König Johann
1971 · as Leopold, Herzog von Österreich
The Butcher
1981 · as Karl Bockerer
Mord im Wald
1992 · as Sandler
Esch oder Die Anarchie
1979 · as Korn - Zolladjunkt
Young Dr. Freud
1976 · as Dr. Josef Breuer
In Zeiten wie diesen
1989 · as Herr Milanovits
The Secret of Loch Ness
2008 · as Opa Bender
Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga
2008 · as Edmund „Mundl” Sackbauer
Der Blunzenkönig
2015 · as Blunzenkönig“ Franz König senior