Karl Stepanek
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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).
Known for
Credits
The Third Man (1949)
as Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
as Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
Operation Crossbow (1965)
as Prof. Hoffer
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
as Hartmuller
Anastasia (1956)
as Mikhail Vlados
No Highway in the Sky (1951)
Actor
The Fallen Idol (1948)
as First Secretary
State Secret (1950)
as Dr. Revo
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
as Assistant Gestapo Officer
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
as Walters
Our Man in Havana (1960)
as Dr. Braun
The Games (1970)
as Kubitsek
Conspirator (1949)
as Radek
Cairo Road (1950)
as Edouardo Pavlis
The Traitor (1957)
as Friederich Suderman
The Captive Heart (1946)
as Forster
Never Let Me Go (1953)
as Commissar
City Beneath the Sea (1953)
as Dwight Trevor
Secret Mission (1942)
as Major Lang
Broken Journey (1948)
as Swiss Officer (uncredited)
Alles Schwindel (1940)
as Clubdiener
Brainwashed (1960)
as Baranow
Tomorrow We Live (1943)
as Seitz
Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)
Actor
A Prize of Gold (1955)
as Dr. Zachmann
Before Winter Comes (1969)
as Count Kerassy
Operation Amsterdam (1959)
as Diamond Merchant
Devil Doll (1964)
as Dr. Heller
Rough Shoot (1953)
as Diss
The Man in the Road (1956)
as Dmitri Balinkev
Licensed to Kill (1965)
as Henrik Jacobsen
The Bat (1937)
as Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky
Give Us This Day (1949)
as Jaroslav
The File of the Golden Goose (1969)
as Mueller
Three Fathers for Anna (1939)
as Matschek
Waltz War (1933)
as Kellner Leopold
Golden Arrow (1949)
as Schroeder
Another Experience (1939)
as Rechtsanwalt
They Met in the Dark (1943)
as Riccardo
Man of the Moment (1955)
as Lom
Murderers Club of Brooklyn (1967)
as Dyers
The Frozen Dead (1966)
as General Lubeck
A Song for You (1933)
as Theo Bruckner
Escape to Danger (1943)
as Franz von Brinkman
Counterblast (1948)
as Professor Inman
Walk East on Beacon (1952)
as Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
Secret Venture (1955)
as Zelinsky
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway (2003)
Actor
Here's Berlin (1932)
as Max
Five from the Jazzband (1932)
as Jean
Na růžích ustláno (1935)
Actor
War es der im 3. Stock? (1939)
as Georg Kilby
Klatovští dragouni (1938)
Actor
Stronger Than Paragraphs (1936)
as Robert Wendland
The Unknown (1936)
as Manager at Regina's
Tale of Three Women (1954)
as Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)
Pozdní láska (1935)
Actor
Sperrbezirk (1966)
as Inspector Wagner
West of Suez (1957)
as Langford
Hotel Sacher (1939)
as Franz
The Third Visitor (1951)
as Richard Carling
Dangerous Cargo (1954)
as Pliny
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men (1935)
as Ruckstuhl
The Grey Pikes Wharf (1935)
as Ladewig
The Leghorn Hat (1939)
as Felix, Diener bei Farina
Our Film (1942)
as Soviet Visitor
Aufstand der Gehorsamen (1963)
as Jawor Stranski
Spione im Savoy-Hotel (1932)
as Jackson
Der Außenseiter (1935)
as Otto Burian
Narren im Schnee (1938)
as Rolf Pinkenkötter