Trivia

Retired from acting in 1976.

Had three children, Adelheid, Adalberta and Michael.

Worked as a bank clerk to attend acting lessons at the Max Reinhardt Seminary.

Born to Rudolf Prack, a postman, and his wife Melanie Elisabeth.

He appeared in four different film versions of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's novella, "Krambambuli": In 1940, he played the main character "Thomas Werndl" in Krambambuli (1940), then in 1955, he played as "Thomas Heimberg" in the lose remake Heimatland (1955). Prack was also in the 1965 version Ruf der Wälder (1965) as "Ingenieur Prachner", and in 1972 he returned in a cameo part for the fourth time in Was geschah auf Schloß Wildberg (1972).

He cemented his fame with movies like "Die goldene Stadt" (1942), "Reise in die Vergangenheit" (1943) and "Orientexpress" (1945).

After the war the need of the public has changed completely. In a time of fight against doubt, unemployment and a restricted view to the future, the Heimatfilm arose. These movies abducted the audience into the alleged world of nature.Together with the actress Sonja Ziemann he formed the dream couple of the Heimatfilm.

He worked for a bank in order to be able to finance his goal of an acting study at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Schönbrunn. Eventually he was engaged at the Theater in der Josefstadt by Hans Thimig.

His activities for the film dropped off in the 60's.

Nowadays Rudolf Prack is mainly connected with his films in the 50's with a regional background (also called Heimatfilm), which influenced the the time then. But his career already began in the middle of the 30's where he already was popular.