
Karl Stepanek
Known for ActingBorn 1899-10-27Died 1980-12-25Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
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).Read more
Movies & web series
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Tale of Three Women
1954 · Movie
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West of Suez
1957 · Movie
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
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Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
1957 · Series
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Murderers Club of Brooklyn
1967 · Movie
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War es der im 3. Stock?
1939 · Movie
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Here's Berlin
1932 · Movie
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Pozdní láska
1935 · Movie
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Das Kriminalmuseum
1963 · Series
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Waltz War
1933 · Movie
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Escape to Danger
1943 · Movie
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The Third Man
1949 · Movie
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A Song for You
1933 · Movie
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The Traitor
1957 · Movie
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The Games
1970 · Movie
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The Leghorn Hat
1939 · Movie
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The Unknown
1936 · Movie
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Five from the Jazzband
1932 · Movie
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Spione im Savoy-Hotel
1932 · Movie
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Brainwashed
1960 · Movie
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The Fallen Idol
1948 · Movie
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Licensed to Kill
1965 · Movie
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The Man in the Road
1956 · Movie
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The Heroes of Telemark
1965 · Movie
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No Highway in the Sky
1951 · Movie
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Sink the Bismarck!
1960 · Movie
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Golden Arrow
1949 · Movie
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State Secret
1950 · Movie
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Alles Schwindel
1940 · Movie
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Hotel Sacher
1939 · Movie
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Another Experience
1939 · Movie
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Narren im Schnee
1938 · Movie
Klatovští dragouni
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Klatovští dragouni
1938 · Movie
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Anastasia
1956 · Movie
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Stronger Than Paragraphs
1936 · Movie
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Operation Crossbow
1965 · Movie
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Der Außenseiter
1935 · Movie
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Na růžích ustláno
1935 · Movie
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The Grey Pikes Wharf
1935 · Movie
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Our Man in Havana
1960 · Movie
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Rough Shoot
1953 · Movie
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Man of the Moment
1955 · Movie
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Secret Venture
1955 · Movie
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Tomorrow We Live
1943 · Movie
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Dangerous Cargo
1954 · Movie
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Cairo Road
1950 · Movie
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Affair in Trinidad
1952 · Movie
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men
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Hermine and the Seven Upright Men
1935 · Movie
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The Captive Heart
1946 · Movie