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