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