Cast
Karl Stepanek
Acting
Cast
Karl Stepanek
Known for
Acting
Born
1899-10-27
From
BrĂŒnn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
Died
1980-12-25
Also known as Karl Stepanek, Karel Ć tÄpĂĄnek, Karel Stepanek
Biography
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).
The Third Man
as Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
Operation Crossbow
as Prof. Hoffer
Waltz War
as Kellner Leopold
Sink the Bismarck!
as Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
The Heroes of Telemark
as Hartmuller
Operation Amsterdam
as Diamond Merchant
Broken Journey
as Swiss Officer (uncredited)
Anastasia
as Mikhail Vlados
The Cockleshell Heroes
as Assistant Gestapo Officer
The Fallen Idol
as First Secretary
Conspirator
as Radek
Secret Venture
as Zelinsky
Affair in Trinidad
as Walters
The Games
as Kubitsek
No Highway in the Sky
Brainwashed
as Baranow
The Traitor
as Friederich Suderman
Our Man in Havana
as Dr. Braun
A Prize of Gold
as Dr. Zachmann
The File of the Golden Goose
as Mueller
Before Winter Comes
as Count Kerassy
Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
State Secret
as Dr. Revo
City Beneath the Sea
as Dwight Trevor
Golden Arrow
as Schroeder
Cairo Road
as Edouardo Pavlis
Devil Doll
as Dr. Heller
The Captive Heart
as Forster
The Frozen Dead
as General Lubeck
Secret Mission
as Major Lang
Walk East on Beacon
as Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
They Met in the Dark
as Riccardo
Another Experience
as Rechtsanwalt
Man of the Moment
as Lom
A Song for You
as Theo Bruckner
Never Let Me Go
as Commissar
The Unknown
as Manager at Regina's
Give Us This Day
as Jaroslav
The Bat
as Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky
Na rĆŻĆŸĂch ustlĂĄno
Dangerous Cargo
as Pliny
Escape to Danger
as Franz von Brinkman
Counterblast
as Professor Inman
Murderers Club of Brooklyn
as Dyers
Three Fathers for Anna
as Matschek
The Man in the Road
as Dmitri Balinkev
Five from the Jazzband
as Jean
Here's Berlin
as Max
The Grey Pikes Wharf
as Ladewig
Alles Schwindel
as Clubdiener
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Rough Shoot
as Diss
Hotel Sacher
as Franz
The Leghorn Hat
as Felix, Diener bei Farina
Sperrbezirk
as Inspector Wagner
Tomorrow We Live
as Seitz
The Third Visitor
as Richard Carling
West of Suez
as Langford
Der AuĂenseiter
as Otto Burian
PozdnĂ lĂĄska
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men
as Ruckstuhl
Tale of Three Women
as Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)
Licensed to Kill
as Henrik Jacobsen
Narren im Schnee
as Rolf Pinkenkötter
Stronger Than Paragraphs
as Robert Wendland
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
as Jackson
Our Film
as Soviet Visitor
Aufstand der Gehorsamen
as Jawor Stranski
KlatovĆĄtĂ dragouni
War es der im 3. Stock?
as Georg Kilby