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