Karel Štěpánek Explained

Karel Štěpánek
Birth Date:	29 October 1899
Birth Place:	Brno, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Death Place:	London, England
Othername:	Karel Stepanek
Occupation:	Film actor
Nationality:	Czechoslovak
Yearsactive:	1928 – 1971

Karel Štěpánek (29 October 189925 December 1980) was a Czechoslovak 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
• (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
• (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

1. Web site: Karel Stepanek. BFI. 11 September 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20121021151236/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/91086. 21 October 2012. dead.
2. Web site: Karel Stepanek.
3. Web site: Filmography for Karel Stepanek. Turner Classic Movies.
4. Web site: Karel Stepanek movies, photos, movie reviews, filmography, and biography – AllMovie. AllMovie.