Karl Merkatz
Actor
Biography
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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Filmography
Move On
as Anton 2012
Der Bockerer II - Österreich ist frei
as Karl Bockerer 1996
The Secret of Loch Ness
as Opa Bender 2008
Lethal Obsession
as Josef Blach 1987
Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga
as Edmund „Mundl” Sackbauer 2008
Little Big Voice
as Siegried 2015
Der Bockerer IV - Prager Frühling
as Karl Bockerer 2003
The Unfish
as Herr Johler 1997
Der Bockerer III - Die Brücke von Andau
as Karl Bockerer 2000
Drei Herren
as Ezechiel Dölken 1998
Echte Wiener 2 - Die Deppat'n und die Gspritzt'n
as Edmund Sackbauer („Mundl“) 2010
Summer With The Ghosts
as Otto 2003
Totstellen
as Capo 1975
Das ewige Lied
as Angerer Wirt 1997
Young Dr. Freud
as Dr. Josef Breuer 1976
Der Blunzenkönig
as Blunzenkönig“ Franz König senior 2015