
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 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).
Acting (61 movies)

Man of the Moment
1955

Murderers Club of Brooklyn
1967

The Fallen Idol
1948

Devil Doll
1964

Operation Crossbow
1965

Affair in Trinidad
1952

Anastasia
1956

The Cockleshell Heroes
1955

Never Let Me Go
1953

City Beneath the Sea
1953

Sink the Bismarck!
1960

The File of the Golden Goose
1969

Die Fledermaus
1937

The Captive Heart
1946

They Met in the Dark
1943

Conspirator
1949

Walk East on Beacon
1952

The Frozen Dead
1966

Secret Venture
1955

Sperrbezirk
1966

A Prize of Gold
1955

Before Winter Comes
1969

Tale of Three Women
1954

Licensed to Kill
1965

Dangerous Cargo
1954

Cairo Road
1950

West of Suez
1957

Operation Amsterdam
1959

Five from the Jazzband
1932

Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
1931

Tomorrow We Live
1943

The Third Man
1949

Give Us This Day
1949

Rough Shoot
1953

Secret Mission
1942

The Leghorn Hat
1939

The Third Visitor
1951

Brainwashed
1960

The Heroes of Telemark
1965

The Unknown
1936

Escape to Danger
1943

Here's Berlin
1932

A Song for You
1933

War es der im 3. Stock?
1939

Der Außenseiter
1935

Spione im Savoy-Hotel
1932

State Secret
1950

Broken Journey
1948

The Man in the Road
1956

The Games
1970

Narren im Schnee
1938

Waltz War
1933

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003

Our Man in Havana
1960

Golden Arrow
1949

No Highway in the Sky
1951

Hotel Sacher
1939

The Traitor
1957

Pozdní láska
1935

Counterblast
1948

Our Film
1942
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