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
The Butcher
1981
Der Rausschmeisser
1989
The Living Corpse
1981
Zwei Väter einer Tochter
2003
Der Bockerer III - Die Brücke von Andau
2000
Move On
2012
Totstellen
1975
Echte Wiener 2 - Die Deppat'n und die Gspritzt'n
2010
Der Bockerer IV - Prager Frühling
2003
The Secret of Loch Ness
2008
Lethal Obsession
1987
Zapping-Alien@Mozart-Balls
2009
Der Waldbauernbub - Weihnacht in der Waldheimat
1983
The Unfish
1997
On the Other Side of the Bridge
2002
Der Blunzenkönig
2015
Mundl - Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter
1994
Der Bockerer II - Österreich ist frei
1996
Da wo es noch Treue gibt
2007
The Lenz Papers
1986
Little Big Voice
2015
Feuer!
1979
Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga
2008
Drei Herren
1998
Frechheit siegt
2004
Doppelagent George Blake
1969
Coming of Age
2011
Das ewige Lied
1997
Ene mene muh – und tot bist du
2001
Ein himmlisches Weihnachtsgeschenk
2002
Ein Hund kam in die Küche
2002
Summer With The Ghosts
2003