Cast
Karl Stepanek
Acting
Cast
Karl Stepanek
Known for
Acting
Born
1899-10-27
From
Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
Died
1980-12-25
Also known as Karl Stepanek, Karel Štěpánek, 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).
★7.9
MOVIE1949
The Third Man
as Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1935
Na růžích ustláno
★6.9
MOVIE1965
The Heroes of Telemark
as Hartmuller
★4.3
MOVIE1937
The Bat
as Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky
★5.8
MOVIE1949
Conspirator
as Radek
★6.8
MOVIE1960
Sink the Bismarck!
as Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
★6.4
MOVIE1952
Affair in Trinidad
as Walters
★6.3
MOVIE1948
Counterblast
as Professor Inman
★7.2
MOVIE1948
The Fallen Idol
as First Secretary
★8.5
MOVIE1935
Pozdní láska
★7.0
MOVIE1951
No Highway in the Sky
★6.8
MOVIE1956
Anastasia
as Mikhail Vlados
★5.9
MOVIE1955
The Cockleshell Heroes
as Assistant Gestapo Officer
★6.7
MOVIE1965
Operation Crossbow
as Prof. Hoffer
★6.9
MOVIE1950
State Secret
as Dr. Revo
★7.0
MOVIE1940
Alles Schwindel
as Clubdiener
★6.7
MOVIE1960
Our Man in Havana
as Dr. Braun
★5.7
MOVIE1969
The File of the Golden Goose
as Mueller
★7.1
MOVIE1960
Brainwashed
as Baranow
★4.5
MOVIE1942
Secret Mission
as Major Lang
★5.1
MOVIE1953
City Beneath the Sea
as Dwight Trevor
★6.0
MOVIE1969
Before Winter Comes
as Count Kerassy
★6.0
MOVIE1939
Three Fathers for Anna
as Matschek
★5.9
MOVIE1953
Never Let Me Go
as Commissar
★6.4
MOVIE1946
The Captive Heart
as Forster
★7.0
MOVIE1939
Another Experience
as Rechtsanwalt
★10.0
MOVIE1954
Tale of Three Women
as Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)
★5.7
MOVIE1949
Give Us This Day
as Jaroslav
★7.4
MOVIE1970
The Games
as Kubitsek
★5.7
MOVIE1955
A Prize of Gold
as Dr. Zachmann
★6.4
MOVIE1943
They Met in the Dark
as Riccardo
★6.1
MOVIE1959
Operation Amsterdam
as Diamond Merchant
★9.0
MOVIE1939
War es der im 3. Stock?
as Georg Kilby
★5.3
MOVIE1952
Walk East on Beacon
as Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
★4.7
MOVIE1964
Devil Doll
as Dr. Heller
★5.2
MOVIE1966
The Frozen Dead
as General Lubeck
★7.0
MOVIE1956
The Man in the Road
as Dmitri Balinkev
★6.6
MOVIE1955
Man of the Moment
as Lom
★8.8
MOVIE1967
Murderers Club of Brooklyn
as Dyers
★6.4
MOVIE1950
Cairo Road
as Edouardo Pavlis
★6.7
MOVIE1953
Rough Shoot
as Diss
★4.3
MOVIE1966
Sperrbezirk
as Inspector Wagner
★6.1
MOVIE1948
Broken Journey
as Swiss Officer (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1931
Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
★7.6
MOVIE1957
The Traitor
as Friederich Suderman
★6.4
MOVIE1954
Dangerous Cargo
as Pliny
MOVIE2003
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
★6.6
MOVIE1943
Tomorrow We Live
as Seitz
★6.5
MOVIE1955
Secret Venture
as Zelinsky
★7.5
MOVIE1939
The Leghorn Hat
as Felix, Diener bei Farina
★7.5
MOVIE1936
The Unknown
as Manager at Regina's
★7.0
MOVIE1939
Hotel Sacher
as Franz
★7.0
MOVIE1965
Licensed to Kill
as Henrik Jacobsen
★6.3
MOVIE1951
The Third Visitor
as Richard Carling
★7.0
MOVIE1949
Golden Arrow
as Schroeder
★8.0
MOVIE1933
A Song for You
as Theo Bruckner
★8.2
MOVIE1933
Waltz War
as Kellner Leopold
★7.5
MOVIE1932
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
as Jackson
★7.5
MOVIE1932
Five from the Jazzband
as Jean
★7.0
MOVIE1935
Der Außenseiter
as Otto Burian
★8.0
MOVIE1943
Escape to Danger
as Franz von Brinkman
MOVIE1942
Our Film
as Soviet Visitor
★9.0
MOVIE1957
West of Suez
as Langford
★7.0
MOVIE1935
The Grey Pikes Wharf
as Ladewig
★9.0
MOVIE1932
Here's Berlin
as Max
MOVIE1963
Aufstand der Gehorsamen
as Jawor Stranski
★7.0
MOVIE1938
Narren im Schnee
as Rolf Pinkenkötter
★6.5
MOVIE1935
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men
as Ruckstuhl
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Stronger Than Paragraphs
as Robert Wendland
★7.0
MOVIE1938