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