People
Karl 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 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
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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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 |