Acting · Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic] · Born October 27, 1899
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).
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2003
MovieThe Games
1970
as Kubitsek
MovieThe File of the Golden Goose
1969
as Mueller
MovieBefore Winter Comes
1969
as Count Kerassy
MovieMurderers Club of Brooklyn
1967
as Dyers
MovieThe Frozen Dead
1966
as General Lubeck
MovieSperrbezirk
1966
as Inspector Wagner
MovieThe Heroes of Telemark
1965
as Hartmuller
MovieLicensed to Kill
1965
as Henrik Jacobsen
MovieOperation Crossbow
1965
as Prof. Hoffer
MovieDevil Doll
1964
as Dr. Heller
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1963
as Jawor Stranski
TVDas Kriminalmuseum
1963
as Dr. Robert Großmann
MovieBrainwashed
1960
as Baranow
MovieSink the Bismarck!
1960
as Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
MovieOur Man in Havana
1960
as Dr. Braun
TVNo Hiding Place
1959
as Professor Remi
MovieOperation Amsterdam
1959
as Diamond Merchant
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1957
as Rubici
MovieWest of Suez
1957
as Langford
MovieThe Traitor
1957
as Friederich Suderman
MovieAnastasia
1956
as Mikhail Vlados
TVArmchair Theatre
1956
MovieThe Man in the Road
1956
as Dmitri Balinkev
MovieMan of the Moment
1955
as Lom
MovieThe Cockleshell Heroes
1955
as Assistant Gestapo Officer
MovieSecret Venture
1955
as Zelinsky
MovieA Prize of Gold
1955
as Dr. Zachmann
MovieDangerous Cargo
1954
as Pliny
MovieTale of Three Women
1954
as Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)
MovieCity Beneath the Sea
1953
as Dwight Trevor
MovieRough Shoot
1953
as Diss
MovieNever Let Me Go
1953
as Commissar
MovieAffair in Trinidad
1952
as Walters
MovieWalk East on Beacon
1952
as Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
MovieNo Highway in the Sky
1951
MovieThe Third Visitor
1951
as Richard Carling
MovieState Secret
1950
as Dr. Revo
MovieCairo Road
1950
as Edouardo Pavlis
MovieGolden Arrow
1949
as Schroeder
MovieGive Us This Day
1949
as Jaroslav
MovieThe Third Man
1949
as Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
MovieConspirator
1949
as Radek
MovieThe Fallen Idol
1948
as First Secretary
MovieCounterblast
1948
as Professor Inman
MovieBroken Journey
1948
as Swiss Officer (uncredited)
MovieThe Captive Heart
1946
as Forster
MovieEscape to Danger
1943
as Franz von Brinkman
MovieThey Met in the Dark
1943
as Riccardo
MovieTomorrow We Live
1943
as Seitz
MovieSecret Mission
1942
as Major Lang
MovieOur Film
1942
as Soviet Visitor
MovieAlles Schwindel
1940
as Clubdiener
MovieThree Fathers for Anna
1939
as Matschek
MovieThe Leghorn Hat
1939
as Felix, Diener bei Farina
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1939
as Franz
MovieAnother Experience
1939
as Rechtsanwalt
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1939
as Georg Kilby
MovieNarren im Schnee
1938
as Rolf Pinkenkötter
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1938
MovieThe Bat
1937
as Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky
MovieThe Unknown
1936
as Manager at Regina's
MovieStronger Than Paragraphs
1936
as Robert Wendland
MovieDer Außenseiter
1935
as Otto Burian
MovieThe Grey Pikes Wharf
1935
as Ladewig
MoviePozdní láska
1935
MovieNa růžích ustláno
1935
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1935
as Ruckstuhl
MovieWaltz War
1933
as Kellner Leopold
MovieA Song for You
1933
as Theo Bruckner
MovieSpione im Savoy-Hotel
1932
as Jackson
MovieFive from the Jazzband
1932
as Jean
MovieHere's Berlin
1932
as Max
MovieBerlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
1931
