Karl Merkatz
Birthday: Born in 1930-11-17 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Deathday: 2022-12-04
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
TV Credits
Aus dem Archiv
Character: Self
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Tatort
Character: Oberinspektor Glauber
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland....
Tatort
Character: Berti Hawratil
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland....
Der Bulle von Tölz
Character: Hofrat Rudolf Matuschek
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Polizeifunk ruft
Character: Kurt Narwitz
Polizeifunk ruft is a German television series....
Lasko – Die Faust Gottes
Character: Bruder Magnus
Lasko – Die Faust Gottes is a German action television series, an RTL co-production with ORF. First aired on 18 June 2009, it is set in a monastery and involves martial arts. Fifteen 45 minute episodes have been produced as of October 2011 in two series. The series was shot in the Naumburg an der Saale area, Pforta, Schloss Neuenburg and Königstein Fortress....
Ein Fall für zwei
Character: Karl Lohse
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series....
Der Bergdoktor
Character: Ludwig Breinfalk
Der Bergdoktor is a German-Austrian medical drama television series, broadcast in 96 episodes between 1992 and 1997....
Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter
Character: Edmund „Mundl“ Sackbauer
Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter is a classic Austrian television series. It was produced by Österreichischer Rundfunk, Austrian Television, and ran for 24 episodes from 1975 to 1979. The script writer was Ernst Hinterberger; the series was based on his 1966 novel Das Salz der Erde. The producer was Hans Preiner, who initiated the project in his series Impulse, which centered on development of new program formats and training of new, young directors. Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter starred...
Stockinger
Character: Gendarm Alois Schefel
Stockinger is an Austrian-made police television drama, with fourteen 45-minute episodes first aired from 1996 to 1997. The series is a spin-off from the popular Austrian television drama Inspector Rex, and focuses on Ernst Stockinger, one of the original members of the Homicide division or Mordkommission in German. Stockinger leaves the series to return to Salzburg where his wife has inherited a dental practice from her late father . He is appointed a Bezirksinspektor at the Landes Gendarmeri...
Die Neue - Eine Frau mit Kaliber
Character: Archivar
Die Neue – Eine Frau mit Kaliber is a German television series....
Im Auftrag von Madame
Character:
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Irgendwie und Sowieso
Character: Kerschbaumer
Irgendwie und Sowieso is a German television series....
Klinik unter Palmen
Character: Nestor Gomez
Klinik unter Palmen is a German television series....
Schlosshotel Orth
Character: Hubert Prohaska
Schlosshotel Orth is an Austrian television series....
Der Ochsenkrieg
Character: Runotter
Miniseries based on a 1914 historical novel by the German writer Ludwig Ganghofer - The War of the Oxen - set against the backdrop of the War of the Oxen in the 1420s....
Movie Credits
Bockerer
Character: Karl Bockerer
A politically naive Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war....
Der Bockerer II - Österreich ist frei
Character: Karl Bockerer
Vienna, 1947. Bockerer and his wife Binerl have survived the war, though his butcher's shop was destroyed by bombs. Karl Bockerer opens up a new establishment in the center of the city. Post-war Vienna is divided into four zones in which the Allies run things and ensure that law and order prevails. This is the story of two lovers: Gustl, just returned form a POW camp, and the Russian interpreter Elena. Bockerer becomes the patron of their love. Elena's father was executed by Stalin, and the onl...
Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga
Character: Edmund „Mundl” Sackbauer
It's 30 years later and the Sackbauers have estranged themselves from everyone; only mother "Toni" tries to re-establish the old happy family....
Echte Wiener 2 - Die Deppat'n und die Gspritzt'n
Character: Edmund Sackbauer („Mundl“)
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Der Bockerer IV - Prager Frühling
Character: Karl Bockerer
In the year 1968, the “Bockerer” has decided, after many attempts, to marry his long-time widowed housekeeper, Anna. Gustl, whom he as taken in like a son after the war, will open a butchery in the Czech small town Kostelec and invites the Bockerers to spend their wedding journey with him and his Elena. The “Prague Spring”, of which everywhere is talked so much about, promises a nice honeymoon, and their friend Hatzinger is taken along on the journey as well. Soon after their arrival, the Bocker...
Lethal Obsession
Character: Josef Blach
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Zapping-Alien@Mozart-Balls
Character: Einstein
Advertising designer Joe is having financial trouble. His girlfriend Mary convinces him to accept a job from her aunt, Mrs. Devil. Joe's assignment: to develop an interactive computer game that introduces the new drug Peps'. Jack, a henchman of Mrs. Devil, is entrusted with overseeing this diabolical undertaking. In Joe's game, Ali - an alien - goes searching for Mozart and the drug, Peps' in Salzburg in the year 2026 with the help of the inventor Einstein and Frau Müller. Throughout his quest t...
Drei Herren
Character: Ezechiel Dölken
Dölken, Ivo and Sichel, three amiable and harmless inmates of a mental asylum are off to spend the summer in an open institution in the country. The trip they have been looking forward to for so long ends abruptly when the driver of their bus suffers a heart attack. The three men quite naturally assume that they have reached their destination and find somewhere to stay in the nearest village....
The Unfish
Character: Herr Johler
Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish, causing chaos and hatred in the village....
Move On
Character: Anton
Move On is a road movie like no other, because it is inspired by film fans from all over Europe! This breath-taking movie directed by Asger Leth features Mads Mikkelsen on a secret mission in 8 episodes, each taking place in a different European country....
Das ewige Lied
Character: Angerer Wirt
Assistant Pastor Josef Mohr arrived in Oberndorf in 1818. In a time of political upheaval and economic hardship he writes a Christmas carol together with the teacher Franz Gruber. The main roles in Franz Xaver Bogners fictive history of the most famous Christmas song in the world "Das ewige Lied" play Tobias Moretti, Heio von Stetten and Erwin Steinhauer....
The Lenz Papers
Character: Böning
Four-part german limited serial about the baden revolution in 1848 and 1849....
The Secret of Loch Ness
Character: Opa Bender
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The Living Corpse
Character: Iwan
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Ein Hund kam in die Küche
Character: Inspektor Ludwig
The teacher Senta falls in love with the award-winning chef Stefan, who rents out his romantic winegrower's house in southern Styria to her during the summer holidays. She soon notices that a quirky gendarmerie inspector is keeping the property under surveillance. Senta finds out too late that the policeman thinks Stefan is a multiple woman murderer and that she is trapped like bait....
Frechheit siegt
Character: Paul Weinstein
cheek wins! According to this motto, Conny Herzog is very successful in life and usually achieves her goals, which are often very high. After the successful conclusion of the "father search" operation, the cheerful woman wants to really get going. With an invention by her father Paul, great business ideas and a good deal of courage in her luggage, she dares to pull off the big coup with the help of her friends Freddy, René and Susanne....
Der Rausschmeisser
Character: Filialleiter
The story of the 18 year old prostitute Fanny who falls back into her old life after being released from a reform school run by nuns. The feeble-minded Frieder tries to liberate her, fails, and pays for it with his life....
Zwei Väter einer Tochter
Character: Paul Weinstein
The furniture manufacturer Albert and the doorman Paul could both be Conny's fathers, the result of a long-suppressed affair between both men and the same woman. This is becoming a huge problem, because Conny is demanding unpaid alimony - from 30 years. Paul's marital happiness and Albert's business future are at stake. A large-scale cover-up begins and leads to complete chaos....
Ein himmlisches Weihnachtsgeschenk
Character: Willi Unger
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Ene mene muh – und tot bist du
Character: Hubi Förster
A small retirement home on the edge of Vienna where the city's oldest residents live. Patients over the age of 100 begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The police's secret investigation concentrates on the nursing staff at first. But the new medical director, Dr. Klein, discovers that one of the patients is the culprit....
Der Bockerer III - Die Brücke von Andau
Character: Karl Bockerer
Vienna, 1956. Viennese butcher Karl Bockerer goes to Hungary to buy meat. Along with his foster son and grandchild, he is caught up in the turmoil of the Hungarian revolt against the Soviet occupiers. With some luck and a great deal of cunning, Bockerer and his family manage to escape, but the Austrian border is closed - except for the bridge to Andau......
Little Big Voice
Character: Siegried
In Austria 1955, the emotional story of a ten-year-old boy, Ben, who after the death of his mother tries to fulfill his dreams in post-war Europe, but faces many problems....
König Ottokars Glück und Ende
Character: Benesch von Diedicz
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Young Dr. Freud
Character: Dr. Josef Breuer
A portrait of Sigmund Freud as a young man....
Der Blunzenkönig
Character: Blunzenkönig“ Franz König senior
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Coming of Age
Character: Bruno
Does luck have a use by date? Both thought that at eighty they have experienced everything until, like a bolt of lightening, Rosa and Bruno come together and immediately fall head over heels. There are two obstacles to their happiness though: Bruno’s marriage, which has long been routine, and Rosa’s illness; she has cancer and not long left to live. Despite the difficult circumstances, the two decide to breakaway – Bruno from his relationship and Rosa from her retirement home. Against the advice...
On the Other Side of the Bridge
Character: Old Roland
Vienna in 1931. Fanny, the daughter of a Vienna police trainer, meets the Chinese police officer Ma Yunlong, who is completing specialist training in Vienna. The shy acquaintance quickly turns into great love. Against the will of her parents, Fanny travels to China on her 18th birthday to marry Yunlong. At his side, Fanny begins a new life in the Middle Kingdom, which is characterized by deprivation and painful turns due to the multiple political upheavals....
Jakob der Letzte
Character: Rodel
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Da wo es noch Treue gibt
Character: Pfarrer
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Totstellen
Character: Capo
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Mord im Wald
Character: Sandler
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Feuer!
Character: Anzenberg
A historical drama about the revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian empire....
Der Bienenkönig
Character: uncle Rudi
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Junger Frühling
Character: David O. Bluhm
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Mundl - Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter
Character: Edmund Sackbauer
A faithful family has gathered around "Mundl": his wife Toni, who says little but always has the last word; his son Karli, who marries Irmi, a woman from "higher circles", and his parents-in-law, the Werners, who have some difficulty in getting accustomed to the coarse tones of the Sackbauer family. Then Mundl's daughter Hanni brings home a bespectacled intellectual, of all people, and altogether, everyday life in Vienna can be rather exciting....
Summer With The Ghosts
Character: Otto
A young girl and her new friend investigate a series of supernatural happenings in the Austrian children's film SUMMER WITH THE GHOSTS. Caroline departs from her home in Montreal to join her father a famous film director on the set of his latest film in Austria. When she arrives however she learns of a series of accidents and problems on the film set with everyone at odds to explain how they happened. Suspecting that someone means to sabotage the film she begins to investigate the ancient castle...