Karl Stepanek
Though born in Czechoslovakia, actor Karel Stepanek was generally regarded as a German actor due to his extensive film work in Germany (as Karl Stepanek) in the years before World War II. Stepanek fled to England in 1940, where, like many European refugee actors, he specialized in portraying Teutonic villains. He tried to stay away from out-and-out Nazi roles, but his predilection for wearing black uniforms and barking out guttural commands left little doubt as to the political preferences of Stepanek's screen characters. One of his most typical characterizations could be found in the 1946 POW drama, The Captive Heart; Stepanek also registered well as a friendlier foreigner in The Fallen Idol (1949). Commuting between London and Hollywood, Karel Stepanek continued to fight World War II, usually on the wrong side, into such '60s films as Sink the Bismarck! (1960), I Aim at the Stars (1960) and Operation Crossbow (1965).
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Movies (71)
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
The Games
1970 · Kubitsek
The File of the Golden Goose
1969 · Mueller
Before Winter Comes
1969 · Count Kerassy
Murderers Club of Brooklyn
1967 · Dyers
The Frozen Dead
1966 · General Lubeck
Sperrbezirk
1966 · Inspector Wagner
The Heroes of Telemark
1965 · Hartmuller
Licensed to Kill
1965 · Henrik Jacobsen
Operation Crossbow
1965 · Prof. Hoffer
Devil Doll
1964 · Dr. Heller
Aufstand der Gehorsamen
1963 · Jawor Stranski
Brainwashed
1960 · Baranow
I Aim at the Stars
1960 · Capt. Dornberger
Sink the Bismarck!
1960 · Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
Our Man in Havana
1960 · Dr. Braun
Operation Amsterdam
1959 · Diamond Merchant
West of Suez
1957 · Langford
The Traitor
1957 · Friederich Suderman
Anastasia
1956 · Mikhail Vlados
The Man in the Road
1956 · Dmitri Balinkev
Man of the Moment
1955 · Lom
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955 · Assistant Gestapo Officer
Secret Venture
1955 · Zelinsky
A Prize of Gold
1955 · Dr. Zachmann
Dangerous Cargo
1954 · Pliny
Tale of Three Women
1954 · Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)
City Beneath the Sea
1953 · Dwight Trevor
Rough Shoot
1953 · Diss
Never Let Me Go
1953 · Commissar
Affair in Trinidad
1952 · Walters
Walk East on Beacon
1952 · Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
No Highway in the Sky
1951
The Third Visitor
1951 · Richard Carling
State Secret
1950 · Dr. Revo
Cairo Road
1950 · Edouardo Pavlis
Golden Arrow
1949 · Schroeder
Give Us This Day
1949 · Jaroslav
The Third Man
1949 · Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
Conspirator
1949 · Radek
The Fallen Idol
1948 · First Secretary
Counterblast
1948 · Professor Inman
Broken Journey
1948 · Swiss Officer (uncredited)
The Captive Heart
1946 · Forster
Escape to Danger
1943 · Franz von Brinkman
They Met in the Dark
1943 · Riccardo
Tomorrow We Live
1943 · Seitz
Secret Mission
1942 · Major Lang
Our Film
1942 · Soviet Visitor
Alles Schwindel
1940 · Clubdiener
Three Fathers for Anna
1939 · Matschek
The Leghorn Hat
1939 · Felix, Diener bei Farina
Hotel Sacher
1939 · Franz
Another Experience
1939 · Rechtsanwalt
War es der im 3. Stock?
1939 · Georg Kilby
Narren im Schnee
1938 · Rolf Pinkenkötter
Klatovští dragouni
1938
The Bat
1937 · Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky
The Unknown
1936 · Manager at Regina's
Stronger Than Paragraphs
1936 · Robert Wendland
Der Außenseiter
1935 · Otto Burian
The Grey Pikes Wharf
1935 · Ladewig
Pozdní láska
1935
Na růžích ustláno
1935
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men
1935 · Ruckstuhl
Waltz War
1933 · Kellner Leopold
A Song for You
1933 · Theo Bruckner
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
1932 · Jackson
Five from the Jazzband
1932 · Jean
Here's Berlin
1932 · Max
Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
1931
