Karl Stepanek
Birthday
1899/10/27
Day of death
1980/12/25 (81 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
Also know 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 St...Read more
Acting
(1955) Man of the Moment
as Lom
(1967) Murderers Club of Brooklyn
as Dyers
(1948) The Fallen Idol
as First Secretary
(1964) Devil Doll
as Dr. Heller
(1965) Operation Crossbow
as Prof. Hoffer
(1952) Affair in Trinidad
as Walters
(1956) Anastasia
as Mikhail Vlados
(1955) The Cockleshell Heroes
as Assistant Gestapo Officer
(1953) Never Let Me Go
as Commissar
(1953) City Beneath the Sea
as Dwight Trevor
(1960) Sink the Bismarck!
as Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
(1969) The File of the Golden Goose
as Mueller
(1937) Die Fledermaus
as Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky
(1946) The Captive Heart
as Forster
(1943) They Met in the Dark
as Riccardo
(1949) Conspirator
as Radek
(1952) Walk East on Beacon
as Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
(1966) The Frozen Dead
as General Lubeck
(1955) Secret Venture
as Zelinsky
(1966) Sperrbezirk
as Inspector Wagner
(1955) A Prize of Gold
as Dr. Zachmann
(1969) Before Winter Comes
as Count Kerassy
(1954) Tale of Three Women
as Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)
(1965) Licensed to Kill
as Henrik Jacobsen
(1954) Dangerous Cargo
as Pliny
(1950) Cairo Road
as Edouardo Pavlis
(1957) West of Suez
as Langford
(1959) Operation Amsterdam
as Diamond Merchant
(1932) Five from the Jazzband
as Jean
(1931) Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
as ---
(1943) Tomorrow We Live
as Seitz
(1949) The Third Man
as Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
(1949) Give Us This Day
as Jaroslav
(1953) Rough Shoot
as Diss
(1942) Secret Mission
as Major Lang
(1939) The Leghorn Hat
as Felix, Diener bei Farina
(1951) The Third Visitor
as Richard Carling
(1960) Brainwashed
as Baranow
(1965) The Heroes of Telemark
as Hartmuller
(1936) The Unknown
as Manager at Regina's
(1943) Escape to Danger
as Franz von Brinkman
(1932) Here's Berlin
as Max
(1933) A Song for You
as Theo Bruckner
(1939) War es der im 3. Stock?
as Georg Kilby
(1935) Hermine and the Seven Upright Men
as Ruckstuhl
(1935) Der Außenseiter
as Otto Burian
(1932) Spione im Savoy-Hotel
as Jackson
(1950) State Secret
as Dr. Revo
(1948) Broken Journey
as Swiss Officer (uncredited)
(1956) The Man in the Road
as Dmitri Balinkev
(1963) Aufstand der Gehorsamen
as Jawor Stranski
(1970) The Games
as Kubitsek
(1938) Narren im Schnee
as Rolf Pinkenkötter
(1933) Waltz War
as Kellner Leopold
(2003) The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
as ---
(1960) Our Man in Havana
as Dr. Braun
(1949) Golden Arrow
as Schroeder
(1951) No Highway in the Sky
as ---
(1939) Hotel Sacher
as Franz
(1938) Klatovští dragouni
as ---
(1957) The Traitor
as Friederich Suderman
(1935) Na růžích ustláno
as ---
(1935) Pozdní láska
as ---
(1948) Counterblast
as Professor Inman
(1942) Our Film
as Soviet Visitor
(1963) Das Kriminalmuseum
as Dr. Robert Großmann