9.0
9.0
Here's Berlin
1932
as Max
Karl Stepanek
Acting
Born:October 27, 1899
Died:December 25, 1980(aged 81)
Birthplace:Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
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CommunityBiography
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).
Filmography (54 movies)
8.7
8.7
Murderers Club of Brooklyn
1967
as Dyers
8.7
8.7
The Leghorn Hat
1939
as Felix, Diener bei Farina
7.7
7.7
Waltz War
1933
as Kellner Leopold
7.1
7.1
The Fallen Idol
1948
as First Secretary
7.0
7.0
Five from the Jazzband
1932
as Jean
7.0
7.0
The Traitor
1957
as Friederich Suderman
6.8
6.8
Anastasia
1956
as Mikhail Vlados
6.8
6.8
Brainwashed
1960
as Baranow
6.8
6.8
Sink the Bismarck!
1960
as Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
6.7
6.7
State Secret
1950
as Dr. Revo
6.7
6.7
Hotel Sacher
1939
as Franz
6.7
6.7
Our Man in Havana
1960
as Dr. Braun
6.5
6.5
Man of the Moment
1955
as Lom
6.3
6.3
Affair in Trinidad
1952
as Walters
6.3
6.3
The Man in the Road
1956
as Dmitri Balinkev
6.3
6.3
They Met in the Dark
1943
as Riccardo
6.2
6.2
Rough Shoot
1953
as Diss
6.0
6.0
The Unknown
1936
as Manager at Regina's
6.0
6.0
Counterblast
1948
as Professor Inman
6.0
6.0
The Third Visitor
1951
as Richard Carling
6.0
6.0
Tomorrow We Live
1943
as Seitz
5.9
5.9
Before Winter Comes
1969
as Count Kerassy
5.9
5.9
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955
as Assistant Gestapo Officer
5.8
5.8
Cairo Road
1950
as Edouardo Pavlis
5.8
5.8
Operation Amsterdam
1959
as Diamond Merchant
5.7
5.7
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men
1935
as Ruckstuhl
5.7
5.7
Conspirator
1949
as Radek
5.6
5.6
Never Let Me Go
1953
as Commissar
5.6
5.6
Give Us This Day
1949
as Jaroslav
5.5
5.5
Licensed to Kill
1965
as Henrik Jacobsen
5.4
5.4
A Prize of Gold
1955
as Dr. Zachmann
5.3
5.3
The File of the Golden Goose
1969
as Mueller
5.2
5.2
Dangerous Cargo
1954
as Pliny
5.2
5.2
Walk East on Beacon
1952
as Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
5.0
5.0
The Frozen Dead
1966
as General Lubeck
5.0
5.0
City Beneath the Sea
1953
as Dwight Trevor
5.0
5.0
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
1932
as Jackson
4.6
4.6
Devil Doll
1964
as Dr. Heller
4.3
4.3
Secret Mission
1942
as Major Lang
3.0
3.0
Die Fledermaus
1937
as Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky
2.3
2.3
Sperrbezirk
1966
as Inspector Wagner
A Song for You
1933
as Theo Bruckner
Aufstand der Gehorsamen
1963
as Jawor Stranski
Our Film
1942
as Soviet Visitor
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Secret Venture
1955
as Zelinsky
West of Suez
1957
as Langford
Tale of Three Women
1954
as Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)
Der Außenseiter
1935
as Otto Burian
War es der im 3. Stock?
1939
as Georg Kilby
Narren im Schnee
1938
as Rolf Pinkenkötter
Golden Arrow
1949
as Schroeder
Escape to Danger
1943
as Franz von Brinkman
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