Karl Stepanek

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: Acting

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

Died: 1980-12-25

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1931	Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf		61
2	1932	Here's Berlin	Max	90
3	1932	Five from the Jazzband	Jean	70
4	1932	Spione im Savoy-Hotel	Jackson	50
5	1933	A Song for You	Theo Bruckner	0
6	1933	Waltz War	Kellner Leopold	77
7	1935	Hermine and the Seven Upright Men	Ruckstuhl	57
8	1935	Na růžích ustláno		0
9	1935	Pozdní láska		90
10	1935	Der Außenseiter	Otto Burian	0
11	1936	The Unknown	Manager at Regina's	60
12	1937	Die Fledermaus	Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky	40
13	1938	Klatovští dragouni		0
14	1938	Narren im Schnee	Rolf Pinkenkötter	0
15	1939	War es der im 3. Stock?	Georg Kilby	0
16	1939	Hotel Sacher	Franz	67
17	1939	The Leghorn Hat	Felix, Diener bei Farina	87
18	1942	Our Film	Soviet Visitor	0
19	1942	Secret Mission	Major Lang	43
20	1943	Tomorrow We Live	Seitz	60
21	1943	They Met in the Dark	Riccardo	63
22	1943	Escape to Danger	Franz von Brinkman	0
23	1946	The Captive Heart	Forster	64
24	1948	Broken Journey	Swiss Officer (uncredited)	60
25	1948	Counterblast	Professor Inman	60
26	1948	The Fallen Idol	First Secretary	72
27	1949	Conspirator	Radek	59
28	1949	The Third Man	Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)	79
29	1949	Give Us This Day	Jaroslav	59
30	1949	Golden Arrow	Schroeder	0
31	1950	Cairo Road	Edouardo Pavlis	58
32	1950	State Secret	Dr. Revo	65
33	1951	The Third Visitor	Richard Carling	60
34	1951	No Highway in the Sky		69
35	1952	Walk East on Beacon	Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders	52
36	1952	Affair in Trinidad	Walters	63
37	1953	Never Let Me Go	Commissar	56
38	1953	Rough Shoot	Diss	62
39	1953	City Beneath the Sea	Dwight Trevor	50
40	1954	Tale of Three Women	Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)	0
41	1954	Dangerous Cargo	Pliny	52
42	1955	Man of the Moment	Lom	65
43	1955	A Prize of Gold	Dr. Zachmann	54
44	1955	Secret Venture	Zelinsky	0
45	1955	The Cockleshell Heroes	Assistant Gestapo Officer	60
46	1956	The Man in the Road	Dmitri Balinkev	63
47	1956	Anastasia	Mikhail Vlados	68
48	1957	West of Suez	Langford	0
49	1957	The Traitor	Friederich Suderman	70
50	1959	Operation Amsterdam	Diamond Merchant	58
51	1960	Our Man in Havana	Dr. Braun	67
52	1960	Sink the Bismarck!	Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'	68
53	1960	Brainwashed	Baranow	68
54	1963	Aufstand der Gehorsamen	Jawor Stranski	0
55	1964	Devil Doll	Dr. Heller	47
56	1965	Operation Crossbow	Prof. Hoffer	68
57	1965	Licensed to Kill	Henrik Jacobsen	55
58	1965	The Heroes of Telemark	Hartmuller	69
59	1966	Sperrbezirk	Inspector Wagner	30
60	1966	The Frozen Dead	General Lubeck	50
61	1967	Murderers Club of Brooklyn	Dyers	87
62	1969	Before Winter Comes	Count Kerassy	59
63	1969	The File of the Golden Goose	Mueller	55
64	1970	The Games	Kubitsek	71
65	2003	The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway		0

Karl Stepanek

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