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