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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Acting
55 credits
No Hiding Place
Das Kriminalmuseum
The Third Man
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Operation Crossbow
The Heroes of Telemark
Sink the Bismarck!
Anastasia
The Bat
The Fallen Idol
Affair in Trinidad
State Secret
Our Man in Havana
City Beneath the Sea
Conspirator
Never Let Me Go
Brainwashed
The Cockleshell Heroes
Secret Mission
The Games
Counterblast
Three Fathers for Anna
Alles Schwindel
The File of the Golden Goose
Hotel Sacher
Broken Journey
Cairo Road
The Captive Heart
Man of the Moment
Tomorrow We Live
Give Us This Day
War es der im 3. Stock?
Another Experience
Devil Doll
Before Winter Comes
Operation Amsterdam
A Prize of Gold
The Traitor
Sperrbezirk
Golden Arrow
Secret Venture
Walk East on Beacon
Licensed to Kill
Escape to Danger
The Frozen Dead
They Met in the Dark
Rough Shoot
The Man in the Road
Dangerous Cargo
The Unknown
West of Suez
A Song for You
Stronger Than Paragraphs
The Leghorn Hat
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men
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No Highway in the Sky
Na růžích ustláno
Armchair Theatre
Pozdní láska
Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
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