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Karl Stepanek

Karl Stepanek

Actor · Born 1899-10-27 · Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]

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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).

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Third Man (1949) — Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
  2. The Fallen Idol (1948) — First Secretary
  3. Anastasia (1956) — Mikhail Vlados
  4. The Heroes of Telemark (1965) — Hartmuller
  5. Our Man in Havana (1960) — Dr. Braun
  6. Sink the Bismarck! (1960) — Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
  7. Operation Crossbow (1965) — Prof. Hoffer
  8. No Highway in the Sky (1951)
  9. Affair in Trinidad (1952) — Walters
  10. Devil Doll (1964) — Dr. Heller
  11. The Cockleshell Heroes (1955) — Assistant Gestapo Officer
  12. The Frozen Dead (1966) — General Lubeck
  13. The Captive Heart (1946) — Forster
  14. Conspirator (1949) — Radek
  15. City Beneath the Sea (1953) — Dwight Trevor
  16. Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)
  17. Walk East on Beacon (1952) — Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
  18. Never Let Me Go (1953) — Commissar
  19. The File of the Golden Goose (1969) — Mueller
  20. State Secret (1950) — Dr. Revo
  21. Man of the Moment (1955) — Lom
  22. Operation Amsterdam (1959) — Diamond Merchant
  23. They Met in the Dark (1943) — Riccardo
  24. Give Us This Day (1949) — Jaroslav
  25. Before Winter Comes (1969) — Count Kerassy
  26. Brainwashed (1960) — Baranow
  27. Secret Mission (1942) — Major Lang
  28. A Prize of Gold (1955) — Dr. Zachmann
  29. The Games (1970) — Kubitsek
  30. The Third Visitor (1951) — Richard Carling
  31. Broken Journey (1948) — Swiss Officer (uncredited)
  32. Cairo Road (1950) — Edouardo Pavlis
  33. Tomorrow We Live (1943) — Seitz
  34. Counterblast (1948) — Professor Inman
  35. Rough Shoot (1953) — Diss
  36. The Leghorn Hat (1939) — Felix, Diener bei Farina
  37. Armchair Theatre (1956)
  38. The Traitor (1957) — Friederich Suderman
  39. Murderers Club of Brooklyn (1967) — Dyers
  40. The Bat (1937) — Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky