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).
Man of the Moment
(Lom)
Murderers Club of Brooklyn
(Dyers)
The Fallen Idol
(First Secretary)
Devil Doll
(Dr. Heller)
Operation Crossbow
(Prof. Hoffer)
Affair in Trinidad
(Walters)
Anastasia
(Mikhail Vlados)
The Cockleshell Heroes
(Assistant Gestapo Officer)
Never Let Me Go
(Commissar)
City Beneath the Sea
(Dwight Trevor)
Sink the Bismarck!
(Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck')
The File of the Golden Goose
(Mueller)
Die Fledermaus
(Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky)
The Captive Heart
(Forster)
They Met in the Dark
(Riccardo)
Conspirator
(Radek)
Walk East on Beacon
(Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders)
The Frozen Dead
(General Lubeck)
Secret Venture
(Zelinsky)
Sperrbezirk
(Inspector Wagner)
A Prize of Gold
(Dr. Zachmann)
Before Winter Comes
(Count Kerassy)
Tale of Three Women
(Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story))
Licensed to Kill
(Henrik Jacobsen)
Dangerous Cargo
(Pliny)
Cairo Road
(Edouardo Pavlis)
West of Suez
(Langford)
Operation Amsterdam
(Diamond Merchant)
Five from the Jazzband
(Jean)
Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
Tomorrow We Live
(Seitz)
The Third Man
(Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited))
Give Us This Day
(Jaroslav)
Rough Shoot
(Diss)
Secret Mission
(Major Lang)
The Leghorn Hat
(Felix, Diener bei Farina)
The Third Visitor
(Richard Carling)
Brainwashed
(Baranow)
The Heroes of Telemark
(Hartmuller)
The Unknown
(Manager at Regina's)
Escape to Danger
(Franz von Brinkman)
Here's Berlin
(Max)
A Song for You
(Theo Bruckner)
War es der im 3. Stock?
(Georg Kilby)
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men
(Ruckstuhl)
Der Außenseiter
(Otto Burian)
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
(Jackson)
State Secret
(Dr. Revo)
Broken Journey
(Swiss Officer (uncredited))
The Man in the Road
(Dmitri Balinkev)
Aufstand der Gehorsamen
(Jawor Stranski)
The Games
(Kubitsek)
Narren im Schnee
(Rolf Pinkenkötter)
Waltz War
(Kellner Leopold)
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Our Man in Havana
(Dr. Braun)
Golden Arrow
(Schroeder)
No Highway in the Sky
Hotel Sacher
(Franz)
Klatovští dragouni
The Traitor
(Friederich Suderman)
Na růžích ustláno
Pozdní láska
Counterblast
(Professor Inman)
Our Film
(Soviet Visitor)
Das Kriminalmuseum
(Dr. Robert Großmann)