The Third Man1949
As Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
TMDb 7.9 / 10
Karl Stepanek
Born
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).
Filmography (70)
The Heroes of Telemark1965
As Hartmuller
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Sink the Bismarck!1960
As Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Anastasia1956
As Mikhail Vlados
TMDb 6.8 / 10
No Highway in the Sky1951
TMDb 7.0 / 10
State Secret1950
As Dr. Revo
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Operation Crossbow1965
As Prof. Hoffer
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Affair in Trinidad1952
As Walters
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Conspirator1949
As Radek
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The File of the Golden Goose1969
As Mueller
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Our Man in Havana1960
As Dr. Braun
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Give Us This Day1949
As Jaroslav
TMDb 5.7 / 10
A Prize of Gold1955
As Dr. Zachmann
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Fallen Idol1948
As First Secretary
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Brainwashed1960
As Baranow
TMDb 7.1 / 10
City Beneath the Sea1953
As Dwight Trevor
TMDb 5.1 / 10
Secret Mission1942
As Major Lang
TMDb 4.5 / 10
The Games1970
As Kubitsek
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Never Let Me Go1953
As Commissar
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Pozdní láska1935
TMDb 8.5 / 10
The Bat1937
As Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky
TMDb 4.3 / 10
Cairo Road1950
As Edouardo Pavlis
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Devil Doll1964
As Dr. Heller
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Walk East on Beacon1952
As Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Tomorrow We Live1943
As Seitz
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Traitor1957
As Friederich Suderman
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Before Winter Comes1969
As Count Kerassy
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Operation Amsterdam1959
As Diamond Merchant
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Cockleshell Heroes1955
As Assistant Gestapo Officer
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Rough Shoot1953
As Diss
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Na růžích ustláno1935
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Man of the Moment1955
As Lom
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Alles Schwindel1940
As Clubdiener
TMDb 7.0 / 10
They Met in the Dark1943
As Riccardo
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Waltz War1933
As Kellner Leopold
TMDb 8.2 / 10
The Man in the Road1956
As Dmitri Balinkev
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Three Fathers for Anna1939
As Matschek
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Murderers Club of Brooklyn1967
As Dyers
TMDb 8.8 / 10
Counterblast1948
As Professor Inman
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Licensed to Kill1965
As Henrik Jacobsen
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway2003
Five from the Jazzband1932
As Jean
TMDb 7.5 / 10
War es der im 3. Stock?1939
As Georg Kilby
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Secret Venture1955
As Zelinsky
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Another Experience1939
As Rechtsanwalt
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Sperrbezirk1966
As Inspector Wagner
TMDb 4.3 / 10
The Frozen Dead1966
As General Lubeck
TMDb 5.2 / 10
The Third Visitor1951
As Richard Carling
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Tale of Three Women1954
As Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)
TMDb 10.0 / 10
A Song for You1933
As Theo Bruckner
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Broken Journey1948
As Swiss Officer (uncredited)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Captive Heart1946
As Forster
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Golden Arrow1949
As Schroeder
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf1931
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Dangerous Cargo1954
As Pliny
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Spione im Savoy-Hotel1932
As Jackson
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Hotel Sacher1939
As Franz
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Escape to Danger1943
As Franz von Brinkman
TMDb 8.0 / 10
West of Suez1957
As Langford
TMDb 9.0 / 10
The Unknown1936
As Manager at Regina's
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Stronger Than Paragraphs1936
As Robert Wendland
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Our Film1942
As Soviet Visitor
Here's Berlin1932
As Max
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men1935
As Ruckstuhl
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Grey Pikes Wharf1935
As Ladewig
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Narren im Schnee1938
As Rolf Pinkenkötter
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Leghorn Hat1939
As Felix, Diener bei Farina
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Klatovští dragouni
Klatovští dragouni1938
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Der Außenseiter1935
As Otto Burian
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Aufstand der Gehorsamen
Aufstand der Gehorsamen1963
As Jawor Stranski
Filmography and biography: TMDb