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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