Karl Merkatz

Karl Merkatz

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Born 1930-11-17 Wiener Neustadt, Austria 8 credit(s) Popularity 0.4
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, Ha...
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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.

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Known For

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Stöckl poster
Stöckl
as Self
2013-01-28
Erlesen poster
Erlesen
as self
2010-11-03
Lasko – Die Faust Gottes poster
Lasko – Die Faust Gottes
as Magnus
2009-06-18
Schlosshotel Orth poster
Schlosshotel Orth
as Hubert Prohaska
1996-11-25
Der Bergdoktor poster
Der Bergdoktor
as Ludwig Breinfalk
1992-10-26
Romy Award poster
Romy Award
as Self
1990-01-01
A Case For Two poster
A Case For Two
as Karl Lohse
1981-09-11
Scene of the Crime poster
Scene of the Crime
as Berti Hawratil
1970-11-29

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