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The Frozen Dead

as General Lubeck

1967
Licensed to Kill

as Henrik Jacobsen

1965
Devil Doll

as Dr. Heller

1964
Sink the Bismarck!

as Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'

1960
Dangerous Cargo

as Pliny

1954
Never Let Me Go

as Commissar

1953
City Beneath the Sea

as Dwight Trevor

1953
Rough Shoot

as Diss

1953
Affair in Trinidad

as Walters

1952
State Secret

as Dr. Revo

1950
Cairo Road

as Edouardo Pavlis

1950
The Fallen Idol

as First Secretary

1948
They Met in the Dark

as Riccardo

1945
Tomorrow We Live

as Seitz

1943
Secret Mission

as Major Lang

1944
Karl Stepanek Karl Stepanek

Birthday

1899-10-29

Place of Birth

Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]

Biography

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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