Karl Stepanek
Acting
Born 1899-10-27
Died 1980-12-25
Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
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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).
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Filmography
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No Hiding Place
The Third Man
Das Kriminalmuseum
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
The Heroes of Telemark
Operation Crossbow
Na růžích ustláno
Sink the Bismarck!
The Fallen Idol
Affair in Trinidad
Our Man in Havana
Anastasia
State Secret
Armchair Theatre
Conspirator
Pozdní láska
No Highway in the Sky
Three Fathers for Anna
Brainwashed
The File of the Golden Goose
The Cockleshell Heroes
City Beneath the Sea
Never Let Me Go
The Bat
Operation Amsterdam
Devil Doll
Another Experience
The Games
Counterblast
Man of the Moment
Cairo Road
Give Us This Day
The Frozen Dead
The Captive Heart
A Prize of Gold
Broken Journey
Secret Mission
War es der im 3. Stock?
Hotel Sacher
Before Winter Comes
Walk East on Beacon
Alles Schwindel
The Traitor
Escape to Danger
Tomorrow We Live
Rough Shoot
Murderers Club of Brooklyn
They Met in the Dark
Secret Venture
Golden Arrow
Licensed to Kill
The Man in the Road
Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
Dangerous Cargo
Waltz War
Sperrbezirk
West of Suez
The Unknown
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
The Third Visitor
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