Karl Stepanek
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).
Acting
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The Third Man
as Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
1949
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The Fallen Idol
as First Secretary
1948
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Anastasia
as Mikhail Vlados
1956
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The Heroes of Telemark
as Hartmuller
1965
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Our Man in Havana
as Dr. Braun
1960
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Sink the Bismarck!
as Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
1960
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Operation Crossbow
as Prof. Hoffer
1965
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No Highway in the Sky
1951
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Affair in Trinidad
as Walters
1952
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Devil Doll
as Dr. Heller
1964
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The Cockleshell Heroes
as Assistant Gestapo Officer
1955
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The Frozen Dead
as General Lubeck
1966
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The Captive Heart
as Forster
1946
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Conspirator
as Radek
1949
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City Beneath the Sea
as Dwight Trevor
1953
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Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
1931
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Walk East on Beacon
as Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
1952
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Never Let Me Go
as Commissar
1953
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The File of the Golden Goose
as Mueller
1969
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State Secret
as Dr. Revo
1950
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Man of the Moment
as Lom
1955
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Operation Amsterdam
as Diamond Merchant
1959
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Give Us This Day
as Jaroslav
1949
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They Met in the Dark
as Riccardo
1943