Karl Stepanek
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).
74 acting credits
Acting · 74
No Hiding Place
1959
Das Kriminalmuseum
1963
The Third Man
1949
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
1957
Armchair Theatre
1956
The Heroes of Telemark
1965
Sink the Bismarck!
1960
Operation Crossbow
1965
The Fallen Idol
1948
Anastasia
1956
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955
Our Man in Havana
1960
State Secret
1950
No Highway in the Sky
1951
Affair in Trinidad
1952
Operation Amsterdam
1959
Brainwashed
1960
Conspirator
1949
The Captive Heart
1946
The Games
1970
City Beneath the Sea
1953
Devil Doll
1964
They Met in the Dark
1943
Never Let Me Go
1953
Murderers Club of Brooklyn
1967
Walk East on Beacon
1952
Broken Journey
1948
Before Winter Comes
1969
Secret Venture
1955
Cairo Road
1950
Rough Shoot
1953
Counterblast
1948
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
Waltz War
1933
Man of the Moment
1955
Tomorrow We Live
1943
A Prize of Gold
1955
The File of the Golden Goose
1969
Secret Mission
1942
Dangerous Cargo
1954
Escape to Danger
1943
Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
1931
The Traitor
1957
Sperrbezirk
1966
Give Us This Day
1949
Hotel Sacher
1939
The Man in the Road
1956
Golden Arrow
1949
Here's Berlin
1932
The Frozen Dead
1966
Alles Schwindel
1940
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men
1935
The Unknown
1936
The Third Visitor
1951
Tale of Three Women
1954
Three Fathers for Anna
1939
Five from the Jazzband
1932
Aufstand der Gehorsamen
1963
Stronger Than Paragraphs
1936
The Grey Pikes Wharf
1935
A Song for You
1933
Licensed to Kill
1965
The Leghorn Hat
1939
Klatovští dragouni
1938
Our Film
1942
Another Experience
1939
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
1932
The Bat
1937
West of Suez
1957
War es der im 3. Stock?
1939
Na růžích ustláno
1935
Pozdní láska
1935
Narren im Schnee
1938
Der Außenseiter
1935