Karl Stepanek

Actor Oct 27 (died age 81) Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic] 1931–2003 (72 year career)

6.2 avg rating

Biography

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 St…

Known For

Film

The Third Man

Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)

Film

The Fallen Idol

First Secretary

Film

The Heroes of Telemark

Hartmuller

Film

Anastasia

Mikhail Vlados

Film

Sink the Bismarck!

Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'

Film

Our Man in Havana

Dr. Braun

Film

Operation Crossbow

Prof. Hoffer

Film

No Highway in the Sky

7.0 1951

Filmography

Acting (70)

Movies (66)

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

2003

The Games

1970

as Kubitsek

7.1

The File of the Golden Goose

as Mueller

Before Winter Comes

as Count Kerassy

Murderers Club of Brooklyn

as Dyers

The Frozen Dead

as General Lubeck

Sperrbezirk

as Inspector Wagner

Licensed to Kill

as Henrik Jacobsen

The Heroes of Telemark

as Hartmuller

Operation Crossbow

as Prof. Hoffer

Devil Doll

as Dr. Heller

Aufstand der Gehorsamen

1963

as Jawor Stranski

Sink the Bismarck!

1960

as Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'

Our Man in Havana

as Dr. Braun

Brainwashed

as Baranow

Operation Amsterdam

as Diamond Merchant

West of Suez

as Langford

The Traitor

1957

as Friederich Suderman

Anastasia

as Mikhail Vlados

The Man in the Road

as Dmitri Balinkev

Man of the Moment

as Lom

A Prize of Gold

as Dr. Zachmann

The Cockleshell Heroes

1955

as Assistant Gestapo Officer

5.9

Secret Venture

1955

as Zelinsky

Tale of Three Women

1954

as Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)

Dangerous Cargo

as Pliny

City Beneath the Sea

as Dwight Trevor

Never Let Me Go

as Commissar

Rough Shoot

as Diss

Affair in Trinidad

as Walters

Walk East on Beacon

as Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders

5.2

No Highway in the Sky

The Third Visitor

as Richard Carling

State Secret

as Dr. Revo

Cairo Road

as Edouardo Pavlis

The Third Man

as Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)

Conspirator

as Radek

Give Us This Day

as Jaroslav

Golden Arrow

as Schroeder

Counterblast

as Professor Inman

The Fallen Idol

as First Secretary

Broken Journey

as Swiss Officer (uncredited)

The Captive Heart

as Forster

Tomorrow We Live

as Seitz

They Met in the Dark

as Riccardo

Escape to Danger

as Franz von Brinkman

Our Film

1942

as Soviet Visitor

Secret Mission

as Major Lang

Hotel Sacher

as Franz

The Leghorn Hat

as Felix, Diener bei Farina

8.7

War es der im 3. Stock?

1939

as Georg Kilby

Klatovští dragouni

1938

Narren im Schnee

1938

as Rolf Pinkenkötter

Die Fledermaus

1937

as Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky

3.0

The Unknown

1936

as Manager at Regina's

Na růžích ustláno

Pozdní láska

Der Außenseiter

as Otto Burian

Die Werft zum grauen Hecht

1935

as Ladewig

Hermine and the Seven Upright Men

1935

as Ruckstuhl

5.7

A Song for You

1933

as Theo Bruckner

Waltz War

1933

as Kellner Leopold

7.7

Five from the Jazzband

1932

as Jean

7.0

Spione im Savoy-Hotel

as Jackson

Here's Berlin

as Max

Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf

1931

5.8

Television (4)

Das Kriminalmuseum

1963

as Dr. Robert Großmann

8.5

No Hiding Place

1959

as Professor Remi

3.7

Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!

1957

as Rubici

Armchair Theatre

1956

5.8