- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- October 27, 1899
- Place of Birth
- Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
- Died
- December 25, 1980
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…
Filmography
movieThe Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
movieThe Games
1970 · Kubitsek
movieThe File of the Golden Goose
1969 · Mueller
movieBefore Winter Comes
1969 · Count Kerassy
movieMurderers Club of Brooklyn
1967 · Dyers
movieThe Frozen Dead
1966 · General Lubeck
movieSperrbezirk
1966 · Inspector Wagner
movieThe Heroes of Telemark
1965 · Hartmuller
movieLicensed to Kill
1965 · Henrik Jacobsen
movieOperation Crossbow
1965 · Prof. Hoffer
movieDevil Doll
1964 · Dr. Heller
Aufstand der Gehorsamen
1963 · Jawor Stranski
tvDas Kriminalmuseum
1963 · Dr. Robert Großmann
movieBrainwashed
1960 · Baranow
movieSink the Bismarck!
1960 · Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
movieOur Man in Havana
1960 · Dr. Braun
tvNo Hiding Place
1959 · Professor Remi
movieOperation Amsterdam
1959 · Diamond Merchant
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1957 · Rubici
movieWest of Suez
1957 · Langford
movieThe Traitor
1957 · Friederich Suderman
movieAnastasia
1956 · Mikhail Vlados
tvArmchair Theatre
1956
movieThe Man in the Road
1956 · Dmitri Balinkev
movieMan of the Moment
1955 · Lom
movieThe Cockleshell Heroes
1955 · Assistant Gestapo Officer
movieSecret Venture
1955 · Zelinsky
movieA Prize of Gold
1955 · Dr. Zachmann
movieDangerous Cargo
1954 · Pliny
movieTale of Three Women
1954 · Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)
movieCity Beneath the Sea
1953 · Dwight Trevor
movieRough Shoot
1953 · Diss
movieNever Let Me Go
1953 · Commissar
movieAffair in Trinidad
1952 · Walters
movieWalk East on Beacon
1952 · Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
movieNo Highway in the Sky
1951
movieThe Third Visitor
1951 · Richard Carling
movieState Secret
1950 · Dr. Revo
movieCairo Road
1950 · Edouardo Pavlis
movieGolden Arrow
1949 · Schroeder
movieGive Us This Day
1949 · Jaroslav
movieThe Third Man
1949 · Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
movieConspirator
1949 · Radek
movieThe Fallen Idol
1948 · First Secretary
movieCounterblast
1948 · Professor Inman
movieBroken Journey
1948 · Swiss Officer (uncredited)
movieThe Captive Heart
1946 · Forster
movieEscape to Danger
1943 · Franz von Brinkman
movieThey Met in the Dark
1943 · Riccardo
movieTomorrow We Live
1943 · Seitz
movieSecret Mission
1942 · Major Lang
movieOur Film
1942 · Soviet Visitor
movieAlles Schwindel
1940 · Clubdiener
movieThree Fathers for Anna
1939 · Matschek
movieThe Leghorn Hat
1939 · Felix, Diener bei Farina
movieHotel Sacher
1939 · Franz
movieAnother Experience
1939 · Rechtsanwalt
movieWar es der im 3. Stock?
1939 · Georg Kilby
movieNarren im Schnee
1938 · Rolf Pinkenkötter
Klatovští dragouni
1938
movieThe Bat
1937 · Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky
movieThe Unknown
1936 · Manager at Regina's
movieStronger Than Paragraphs
1936 · Robert Wendland
movieDer Außenseiter
1935 · Otto Burian
movieThe Grey Pikes Wharf
1935 · Ladewig
moviePozdní láska
1935
movieNa růžích ustláno
1935
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men
1935 · Ruckstuhl
movieWaltz War
1933 · Kellner Leopold
movieA Song for You
1933 · Theo Bruckner
movieSpione im Savoy-Hotel
1932 · Jackson
movieFive from the Jazzband
1932 · Jean
movieHere's Berlin
1932 · Max
movieBerlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
1931