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TMDB ID: 11193
IMDb ID: nm0691201
Known for: Acting
Born: May 18, 1935
Age: 90
Place of birth: Paris, France
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1966 - 2024
Years active: 59
Average TMDB rating: 6.51
Wikidata: Q3397928
Also known as
Jean Herbert • Jean Hébert • Popek • Judka Herpstu
Frequent jobs
Popeck (born Judka Herpstu; 18 May 1936) is a French actor and stand-up comedian. The son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Romania, Judka Herpstu was born in Paris. He was among the children saved from the Holocaust by the OSE, but his mother was murdered in Auschwitz. He studied acting at the Cours Simon and started his career on stage under the name Jean Herbert. In 1968, Herpstu created the character of Popeck, a grumpy Eastern-European immigrant dressed in a 3-piece suit, wearing a bowler hat and speaking French with a strong Yiddish accent. Sketches featuring Popeck made Herpstu known to the larger public, and the actor identified with his character so far as to finally adopt the name Popeck for himself in 1978. In addition to his work on stage, Popeck has acted in movies. He had a small role in Roman Polanski's The Pianist. Source: Article "Popeck" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Highest rated movies linked with Popeck.
Most viewed movie titles linked with Popeck.
as Rubenstein
as Le tailleur de crayons
as Moishe Schmoll
as Gattinara
as Sacy
as Lucien
as Ernest
as Self - Comedian
as Un policier à la gare
as (as Jean Hebert)
as Paul Laffargue
Most viewed series linked with Popeck.
as Self • 1 eps
as Self • 7 eps
as Self • 2 eps
as Self • 1 eps
as Self • 2 eps
as Self (archive footage) • 1 eps
as Joseph Durban/Frère Cheval • 7 eps
Additional movie credits for Popeck.
Movie cast credits for Popeck.
as Self
as Self - Comedian
as Self
as Lucien
as Self
as Toussaint
as Him Self
as Ernest
as Self
as Rubenstein
Series cast credits for Popeck.
as Self (archive footage) • 1 eps
as Self • 2 eps
as Self • 7 eps
as Self • 1 eps
as Self • 1 eps
as Self • 2 eps
as Joseph Durban/Frère Cheval • 7 eps