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Karl Stepanek

Karl Stepanek
  • Name: Karl Stepanek
  • Birthday: 1899-10-27
  • Also known as: Karl Stepanek,Karel Štěpánek,Karel Stepanek
  • Place of birth: Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
  • Popularity: 1.302
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... Read More

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Title Release date
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway 2003-10-31
The Games   as  Kubitsek 1970-08-07
The File of the Golden Goose   as  Mueller 1969-10-13
Before Winter Comes   as  Count Kerassy 1969-01-17
Murderers Club of Brooklyn   as  Dyers 1967-03-17
The Frozen Dead   as  General Lubeck 1966-10-15
Sperrbezirk   as  Inspector Wagner 1966-06-02
The Heroes of Telemark   as  Hartmuller 1965-11-12
Licensed to Kill   as  Henrik Jacobsen 1965-07-05
Operation Crossbow   as  Prof. Hoffer 1965-04-01
Devil Doll   as  Dr. Heller 1964-09-01
Aufstand der Gehorsamen   as  Jawor Stranski 1963-04-20
Brainwashed   as  Baranow 1960-09-02
Sink the Bismarck!   as  Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck' 1960-02-11
Our Man in Havana   as  Dr. Braun 1960-01-27
Operation Amsterdam   as  Diamond Merchant 1959-01-12
The Traitor   as  Friederich Suderman 1957-03-01
West of Suez   as  Langford 1957-03-01
Anastasia   as  Mikhail Vlados 1956-12-13
The Man in the Road   as  Dmitri Balinkev 1956-03-01
The Cockleshell Heroes   as  Assistant Gestapo Officer 1955-11-16
Secret Venture   as  Zelinsky 1955-11-10
A Prize of Gold   as  Dr. Zachmann 1955-10-14
Man of the Moment   as  Lom 1955-01-01
Dangerous Cargo   as  Pliny 1954-05-01
Tale of Three Women   as  Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story) 1954-01-01
City Beneath the Sea   as  Dwight Trevor 1953-04-21
Rough Shoot   as  Diss 1953-03-30
Never Let Me Go   as  Commissar 1953-03-18
Affair in Trinidad   as  Walters 1952-07-29
Walk East on Beacon   as  Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders 1952-06-01
No Highway in the Sky 1951-06-28
The Third Visitor   as  Richard Carling 1951-01-31
State Secret   as  Dr. Revo 1950-09-11
Cairo Road   as  Edouardo Pavlis 1950-06-21
Golden Arrow   as  Schroeder 1949-12-31
Give Us This Day   as  Jaroslav 1949-10-14
The Third Man   as  Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited) 1949-08-31
Conspirator   as  Radek 1949-07-28
The Fallen Idol   as  First Secretary 1948-09-30
Counterblast   as  Professor Inman 1948-05-18
Broken Journey   as  Swiss Officer (uncredited) 1948-04-14
The Captive Heart   as  Forster 1946-04-29
Escape to Danger   as  Franz von Brinkman 1943-10-18
They Met in the Dark   as  Riccardo 1943-08-11
Tomorrow We Live   as  Seitz 1943-04-05
Secret Mission   as  Major Lang 1942-10-05
Our Film   as  Soviet Visitor 1942-08-03
The Leghorn Hat   as  Felix, Diener bei Farina 1939-04-04
Hotel Sacher   as  Franz 1939-03-15
War es der im 3. Stock?   as  Georg Kilby 1939-01-06
Narren im Schnee   as  Rolf Pinkenkötter 1938-08-16
Klatovští dragouni 1938-02-25
Die Fledermaus   as  Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky 1937-10-30
The Unknown   as  Manager at Regina's 1936-11-12
Der Außenseiter   as  Otto Burian 1935-11-14
Pozdní láska 1935-06-07
Na růžích ustláno 1935-01-25
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men   as  Ruckstuhl 1935-01-11
Waltz War   as  Kellner Leopold 1933-10-03
A Song for You   as  Theo Bruckner 1933-04-14
Spione im Savoy-Hotel   as  Jackson 1932-11-04
Five from the Jazzband   as  Jean 1932-03-19
Here's Berlin   as  Max 1932-03-14
Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf 1931-10-07