Karel Štěpánek

Czech actor (1899–1980)

Karel Štěpánek
in Secret Mission (1942)
Born	(1899-10-29)29 October 1899 Brno, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	25 December 1980(1980-12-25) (aged 81) London, England
Nationality	Czech
Other names	Karel Stepanek
Occupation	Film actor
Years active	1928 – 1971

Karel Štěpánek (29 October 1899 – 25 December 1980) was a Czech actor who spent many years in Austria and generally played German roles onscreen.^[1] In 1940 he moved to the UK and spent much of the rest of his career acting there.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Partial filmography

A Love, A Thief, A Department Store (1928)
Berlin-Alexanderplatz (1931)
Here's Berlin (1932) as Max
Five from the Jazz Band (1932) as Jean
Spione im Savoy-Hotel (1932) as Jackson
A Song for You (1933) as Theo Bruckner
Waltz War (1933) as Kellner Leopold
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men (1935) as Ruckstuhl, Grundstückspekulant
Die Werft zum Grauner Hecht (1935) as Ladewig
Der Auβenseiter (1935) as Otto Burian
Stronger Than Regulations (1936) as Robert Wendland
The Unknown (1936) as Manager at Regina's
Signal in the Night (1937) as Korporal Tschepski
Die Fledermaus [it] (1937) as Attaché / Orlovsky

Klatovsti dragouni (1937) as Dance Master
The Stars Shine (1938) as Oberbeleuchter Brandt
Fools in the Snow (1938) as Rolf Pinkenkötter
War es der im 3. Stock? (1939) as Georg Kilby
Das Abenteuer geht weiter [de] (1939) as Lawyer
Hotel Sacher (1939) as Franz
Three Fathers for Anna (1939)
The Leghorn Hat (1939) as Felix
Die Kluge Schwiegermutter (1939) as Hans Giebel
Drei Väter un Anna (1939) as Matschek
Alles Schwindel (1940) as Clubdiener
Women Are Better Diplomats (1941) as Kellner
Secret Mission (1942) as Major Lang
Tomorrow We Live (1943) as Seitz
Escape to Danger (1943) as Franz von Brinkman
They Met in the Dark (1943) as Riccardo
The Captive Heart (1946) as Forster
Counterblast (1948) as Professor Inman, Nazi Psychiatrist
Broken Journey (1948) as Swiss Officer (uncredited)
The Fallen Idol (1948) as First Secretary
Conspirator (1949) as Radek
The Third Man (1949) as Actor at Josefstadt Theatre (uncredited)
Give Us This Day (1949) as Jaroslav
Golden Arrow (1949) as Schroeder
Cairo Road (1950) as Edouardo Pavlis
State Secret (1950) as Dr. Revo
The Third Visitor (1951) as Richard Carling
No Highway (1951) as Mannheim (uncredited)
Walk East on Beacon (1952) as Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
Affair in Trinidad (1952) as Walters
City Beneath the Sea (1953) as Dwight Trevor
Never Let Me Go (1953) as Commisar
Rough Shoot (1953) as Diss
Dangerous Cargo (1954) as Pliny
Tale of Three Women (1954) as Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)
A Prize of Gold (1955) as Zachmann
Secret Venture (1955) as Zelinsky
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955) as Assistant Gestapo Officer
Man of the Moment (1955) as Lom
Private's Progress (1956) as German Officer (uncredited)
The Man in the Road (1956) as Dmitri Balinkev
Anastasia (1956) as Mikhail Vlados
The Traitor (1957) as Friederich Suderman
West of Suez (1957) as Langford
Operation Amsterdam (1959) as Diamond Merchant (uncredited)
Our Man in Havana (1959) as Dr. Braun
Sink the Bismarck! (1960) as Admiral Günther Lütjens
I Aim at the Stars (1960) as Captain Dornberger
Three Moves to Freedom (1960) as Baranow
Terror After Midnight (1962) as Vater Stoddard
Devil Doll (1964) as Dr. Heller
Operation Crossbow (1965) as Prof. Hoffer
Licensed to Kill (1965) as Henrik Jacobsen
The Heroes of Telemark (1965) as Prof. Hartmuller
Sperrbezirk (1966) as Inspector Wagner
The Frozen Dead (1967) as General Lubeck
Murderers Club of Brooklyn (1967) as Dyers
Before Winter Comes (1969) as Count Kerassy
The File of the Golden Goose (1969) as Mueller
The Games (1970) as Kubitsek
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1971) as Count Derassy (final film role)

References

^ "Karel Stepanek". BFI. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2010.
^ "Karel Stepanek".
^ "Filmography for Karel Stepanek". Turner Classic Movies.
^ "Karel Stepanek movies, photos, movie reviews, filmography, and biography – AllMovie". AllMovie.