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).
Acted in
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
The Games
1970
as Kubitsek
The File of the Golden Goose
1969
as Mueller
Before Winter Comes
1969
as Count Kerassy
Murderers Club of Brooklyn
1967
as Dyers
The Frozen Dead
1966
as General Lubeck
Sperrbezirk
1966
as Inspector Wagner
The Heroes of Telemark
1965
as Hartmuller
Licensed to Kill
1965
as Henrik Jacobsen
Operation Crossbow
1965
as Prof. Hoffer
Devil Doll
1964
as Dr. Heller
Aufstand der Gehorsamen
1963
as Jawor Stranski
Das Kriminalmuseum
1963
as Dr. Robert Großmann
Brainwashed
1960
as Baranow
Sink the Bismarck!
1960
as Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
Our Man in Havana
1960
as Dr. Braun
Operation Amsterdam
1959
as Diamond Merchant
West of Suez
1957
as Langford
The Traitor
1957
as Friederich Suderman
Anastasia
1956
as Mikhail Vlados
The Man in the Road
1956
as Dmitri Balinkev
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955
as Assistant Gestapo Officer
Secret Venture
1955
as Zelinsky
A Prize of Gold
1955
as Dr. Zachmann
Man of the Moment
1955
as Lom
Dangerous Cargo
1954
as Pliny
Tale of Three Women
1954
as Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)
City Beneath the Sea
1953
as Dwight Trevor
Rough Shoot
1953
as Diss
Never Let Me Go
1953
as Commissar
Affair in Trinidad
1952
as Walters
Walk East on Beacon
1952
as Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
No Highway in the Sky
1951
The Third Visitor
1951
as Richard Carling
State Secret
1950
as Dr. Revo
Cairo Road
1950
as Edouardo Pavlis
Golden Arrow
1949
as Schroeder
Give Us This Day
1949
as Jaroslav
The Third Man
1949
as Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
Conspirator
1949
as Radek
The Fallen Idol
1948
as First Secretary
Counterblast
1948
as Professor Inman
Broken Journey
1948
as Swiss Officer (uncredited)
The Captive Heart
1946
as Forster
Escape to Danger
1943
as Franz von Brinkman
They Met in the Dark
1943
as Riccardo
Tomorrow We Live
1943
as Seitz
Secret Mission
1942
as Major Lang
Our Film
1942
as Soviet Visitor
The Leghorn Hat
1939
as Felix, Diener bei Farina
Hotel Sacher
1939
as Franz
War es der im 3. Stock?
1939
as Georg Kilby
Narren im Schnee
1938
as Rolf Pinkenkötter
Klatovští dragouni
1938
Die Fledermaus
1937
as Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky
The Unknown
1936
as Manager at Regina's
Der Außenseiter
1935
as Otto Burian
Pozdní láska
1935
Na růžích ustláno
1935
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men
1935
as Ruckstuhl
Waltz War
1933
as Kellner Leopold
A Song for You
1933
as Theo Bruckner
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
1932
as Jackson
Five from the Jazzband
1932
as Jean
Here's Berlin
1932
as Max
Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
1931