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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 27, 1899
Died
December 25, 1980
Place of Birth
Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
Also Known As
- Karl Stepanek
- Karel Štěpánek
- Karel Stepanek
Karl Stepanek
0.3 Popularity
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).
Known For
0.0
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
7.1
Kubitsek
The Games
1970
5.2
Mueller
The File of the Golden Goose
1969
5.9
Count Kerassy
Before Winter Comes
1969
8.7
Dyers
Murderers Club of Brooklyn
1967
5.0
General Lubeck
The Frozen Dead
1966
2.3
Inspector Wagner
Sperrbezirk
1966
6.9
Hartmuller
The Heroes of Telemark
1965
5.5
Henrik Jacobsen
Licensed to Kill
1965
6.7
Prof. Hoffer
Operation Crossbow
1965
Credits
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
0.0
The Games
as Kubitsek
1970
7.1
The File of the Golden Goose
as Mueller
1969
5.2
Before Winter Comes
as Count Kerassy
1969
5.9
Murderers Club of Brooklyn
as Dyers
1967
8.7
The Frozen Dead
as General Lubeck
1966
5.0
Sperrbezirk
as Inspector Wagner
1966
2.3
The Heroes of Telemark
as Hartmuller
1965
6.9
Licensed to Kill
as Henrik Jacobsen
1965
5.5
Operation Crossbow
as Prof. Hoffer
1965
6.7
Devil Doll
as Dr. Heller
1964
4.6
🎬
Aufstand der Gehorsamen
as Jawor Stranski
1963
0.0
Das Kriminalmuseum
as Dr. Robert Großmann
1963
8.5
Brainwashed
as Baranow
1960
6.8
Sink the Bismarck!
as Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
1960
6.8
Our Man in Havana
as Dr. Braun
1960
6.7
No Hiding Place
as Professor Remi
1959
3.7
Operation Amsterdam
as Diamond Merchant
1959
5.8
🎬
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
as Rubici
1957
0.0
The Traitor
as Friederich Suderman
1957
7.0
West of Suez
as Langford
1957
0.0
Anastasia
as Mikhail Vlados
1956
6.8
The Man in the Road
as Dmitri Balinkev
1956
6.3
Man of the Moment
as Lom
1955
6.5
The Cockleshell Heroes
as Assistant Gestapo Officer
1955
5.9
Secret Venture
as Zelinsky
1955
0.0
A Prize of Gold
as Dr. Zachmann
1955
5.4
Dangerous Cargo
as Pliny
1954
5.2
Tale of Three Women
as Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)
1954
0.0
City Beneath the Sea
as Dwight Trevor
1953
5.0
Rough Shoot
as Diss
1953
6.2
Never Let Me Go
as Commissar
1953
5.6
Affair in Trinidad
as Walters
1952
6.3
Walk East on Beacon
as Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
1952
5.2
No Highway in the Sky
1951
7.0
The Third Visitor
as Richard Carling
1951
6.0
State Secret
as Dr. Revo
1950
6.7
Cairo Road
as Edouardo Pavlis
1950
5.8
Golden Arrow
as Schroeder
1949
0.0
Give Us This Day
as Jaroslav
1949
5.6
The Third Man
as Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
1949
7.9
Conspirator
as Radek
1949
5.7
The Fallen Idol
as First Secretary
1948
7.2
Counterblast
as Professor Inman
1948
6.0
Broken Journey
as Swiss Officer (uncredited)
1948
6.0
The Captive Heart
as Forster
1946
6.2
Escape to Danger
as Franz von Brinkman
1943
0.0
They Met in the Dark
as Riccardo
1943
6.3
Tomorrow We Live
as Seitz
1943
6.0
Secret Mission
as Major Lang
1942
4.3
Our Film
as Soviet Visitor
1942
0.0
The Leghorn Hat
as Felix, Diener bei Farina
1939
8.7
Hotel Sacher
as Franz
1939
6.7
War es der im 3. Stock?
as Georg Kilby
1939
0.0
Narren im Schnee
as Rolf Pinkenkötter
1938
0.0
🎬
Klatovští dragouni
1938
0.0
Die Fledermaus
as Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky
1937
3.0
The Unknown
as Manager at Regina's
1936
6.0
Der Außenseiter
as Otto Burian
1935
0.0
Die Werft zum grauen Hecht
as Ladewig
1935
0.0
Pozdní láska
1935
9.0
Na růžích ustláno
1935
0.0
🎬
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men
as Ruckstuhl
1935
5.7
Waltz War
as Kellner Leopold
1933
7.7
A Song for You
as Theo Bruckner
1933
0.0
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
as Jackson
1932
5.0
Five from the Jazzband
as Jean
1932
7.0
Here's Berlin
as Max
1932
9.0
Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
1931
5.8