Karl Stepanek
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1899-10-27 (81 years old)
Deathday
1980-12-25
Place of Birth
Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
Also known As
Karl Stepanek
Karel Štěpánek
Karel Stepanek
Karl Stepanek
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 Stepanek's screen characters. One of his most typical characterizations could be found in the 1946 POW drama, The Captive Heart; Stepanek also registere...
Acting
1955
as Lom
1967
as Dyers
1948
as First Secretary
1964
as Dr. Heller
1965
as Prof. Hoffer
1952
as Walters
1956
as Mikhail Vlados
1955
as Assistant Gestapo Officer
1953
as Commissar
1953
as Dwight Trevor
1960
as Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
1969
as Mueller
1937
as Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky
1946
as Forster
1943
as Riccardo
1949
as Radek
1952
as Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
1966
as General Lubeck
1955
as Zelinsky
1966
as Inspector Wagner
1955
as Dr. Zachmann
1969
as Count Kerassy
1954
as Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)
1965
as Henrik Jacobsen
1954
as Pliny
1950
as Edouardo Pavlis
1957
as Langford
1959
as Diamond Merchant
1932
as Jean
1943
as Seitz
1949
as Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
1949
as Jaroslav
1953
as Diss
1942
as Major Lang
1939
as Felix, Diener bei Farina
1951
as Richard Carling
1960
as Baranow
1965
as Hartmuller
1936
as Manager at Regina's
1943
as Franz von Brinkman
1932
as Max
1933
as Theo Bruckner
1939
as Georg Kilby
1935
as Ruckstuhl
1935
as Otto Burian
1932
as Jackson
1950
as Dr. Revo
1948
as Swiss Officer (uncredited)
1956
as Dmitri Balinkev
1963
as Jawor Stranski
1970
as Kubitsek
1938
as Rolf Pinkenkötter
1933
as Kellner Leopold
1960
as Dr. Braun
1949
as Schroeder
1939
as Franz
1957
as Friederich Suderman
1935
1948
as Professor Inman
1942
as Soviet Visitor
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