Karl Stepanek
- Recitazione
- 27 ottobre 1899 · Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
- 25 dicembre 1980
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
- I formidabili · Kubitsek
- Quel maledetto ispettore Novak · Mueller
- Prima che venga l'inverno · Count Kerassy
- Jerry Cotton - Der Mörderclub von Brooklyn · Dyers
- I redivivi · General Lubeck
- Sperrbezirk · Inspector Wagner
- Gli eroi di Telemark · Hartmuller
- Licensed to Kill · Henrik Jacobsen
- Operazione Crossbow · Prof. Hoffer
- Il mostro e le vergini · Dr. Heller
- Aufstand der Gehorsamen · Jawor Stranski
- Das Kriminalmuseum · Dr. Robert Großmann
- Scacco alla follia · Baranow
- Alla conquista dell'infinito · Capt. Dornberger
- Affondate la Bismarck! · Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
- Il nostro agente all'Avana · Dr. Braun
- No Hiding Place · Professor Remi
- Amsterdam operazione diamanti · Diamond Merchant
- Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! · Rubici
- West of Suez · Langford
- The Traitor · Friederich Suderman
- Anastasia · Mikhail Vlados
- Armchair Theatre
- The Man in the Road · Dmitri Balinkev
- Man of the Moment · Lom
- Sopravvissuti: 2 · Assistant Gestapo Officer
- Secret Venture · Zelinsky
- Oro · Dr. Zachmann
- Dangerous Cargo · Pliny
- Tale of Three Women · Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)
- La città sommersa · Dwight Trevor
- Servizio segreto · Diss
- Arrivò l'alba · Commissar
- Trinidad · Walters
- Walk East on Beacon · Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
- Il viaggio indimenticabile
- The Third Visitor · Richard Carling
- Segreto di stato · Dr. Revo
- Cairo Road · Edouardo Pavlis
- Golden Arrow · Schroeder
- Cristo tra i muratori · Jaroslav
- Il terzo uomo · Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
- Alto tradimento · Radek
- Idolo infranto · First Secretary
- Counterblast · Professor Inman
- Broken Journey · Swiss Officer (uncredited)
- Cuore prigioniero · Forster
- Escape to Danger · Franz von Brinkman
- Incontro nel buio · Riccardo
- Tomorrow We Live · Seitz
- Missione segreta · Major Lang
- Our Film · Soviet Visitor
- Alles Schwindel · Clubdiener
- Drei Väter um Anna · Matschek
- Der Florentiner Hut · Felix, Diener bei Farina
- Hotel Sacher · Franz
- Das Abenteuer geht weiter · Rechtsanwalt
- War es der im 3. Stock? · Georg Kilby
- Narren im Schnee · Rolf Pinkenkötter
- Klatovští dragouni
- Die Fledermaus · Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky
- Die Unbekannte · Manager at Regina's
- Stärker als Paragraphen · Robert Wendland
- Der Außenseiter · Otto Burian
- Die Werft zum grauen Hecht · Ladewig
- Pozdní láska
- Na růžích ustláno
- Hermine und die sieben Aufrechten · Ruckstuhl
- Walzerkrieg · Kellner Leopold
- Ein Lied für Dich · Theo Bruckner
- Spione im Savoy-Hotel · Jackson
- Fünf von der Jazzband · Jean
- Allo Berlin? Ici Paris! · Max
- Berlin-Alexanderplatz