Karl Stepanek
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).
The Third Man
as Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a...
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The Heroes of Telemark
as HartmullerSet in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist...
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Anastasia
as Mikhail VladosRussian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming...
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Sink the Bismarck!
as Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser...
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The Fallen Idol
as First SecretaryPhillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of...
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Operation Crossbow
as Prof. HofferAllied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets...
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Affair in Trinidad
as WaltersA nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
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No Highway in the Sky
as uncreditedJames Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded...
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Our Man in Havana
as Dr. BraunJim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage...
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Never Let Me Go
as CommissarAn American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
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Devil Doll
as Dr. HellerAn evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.
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The File of the Golden Goose
as MuellerU.S. Secret Service agent Peter Novak goes undercover with Scotland Yard officer Thompson to...
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The Cockleshell Heroes
as Assistant Gestapo OfficerDuring WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of...
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Walk East on Beacon
as Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory AndersAn FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in...
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Before Winter Comes
as Count KerassyDrama/Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd...
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State Secret
as Dr. RevoVisiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European...
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Operation Amsterdam
as Diamond MerchantWhen Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond...
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City Beneath the Sea
as Dwight TrevorTwo adventures dive for treasure off the coast of Jamaica.
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Counterblast
as Professor InmanAn escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a...
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The Frozen Dead
as General LubeckA crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate...
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Tomorrow We Live
as SeitzBritish World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the...
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The Games
as KubitsekFrom Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain....
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Dangerous Cargo
as PlinyInspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal...
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The Captive Heart
as ForsterA series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five...
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Conspirator
as RadekA newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
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Cairo Road
as Edouardo PavlisIn colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs...
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A Prize of Gold
as Dr. ZachmannA U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war...
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West of Suez
as LangfordIn this suspense movie, a Yankee mercenary is hired to blow up an Arab dignitary.
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Secret Mission
as Major LangWorld War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake...
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Rough Shoot
as DissAn American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful...
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They Met in the Dark
as RiccardoA Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him...
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Give Us This Day
as JaroslavExiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England...
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Broken Journey
as Swiss Officer (uncredited)A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a...
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The Third Visitor
as Richard CarlingSuave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all...
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Sperrbezirk
as Inspector WagnerThe story of a pimp who falls in love with one of his victims, is "purified" by it, but also...
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A Song for You
as Theo BrucknerDuring a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes...
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Man of the Moment
as LomNorman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference,...
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The Traitor
as Friederich SudermanOne time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader,...
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The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
as uncreditedOver one hour of black-and-white location footage and interviews with the stars and director,...
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Brainwashed
as BaranowWerner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break...
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The Man in the Road
as Dmitri BalinkevA brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a...
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Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
as uncreditedFranz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.
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Here's Berlin
as MaxStory of a rendezvous in Paris which is prepared through telephone calls between a Berlin...
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Escape to Danger
as Franz von BrinkmanDuring the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the...
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Murderers Club of Brooklyn
as DyersFifth Jerry Cotton Movie. A rich capitalist is blackmailed and threatened with the murder of his...
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The Unknown
as Manager at Regina'sThe body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen...
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Licensed to Kill
as Henrik JacobsenAn English spy (Tom Adams) guards a Scandinavian scientist (Karl Stepanek) who has sold an...
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Tale of Three Women
as Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist"....
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Golden Arrow
as SchroederOn a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other...
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The Leghorn Hat
as Felix, Diener bei FarinaDer Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
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Our Film
as Soviet VisitorA British factory is inefficient because of pre-war rules and red tape. A Soviet trades union...
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Waltz War
as Kellner LeopoldThe quarrel between the waltz king Joseph Lanner and his still unknown violinist Johann Strauss....
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Hotel Sacher
as FranzVienna is celebrating New Year’s Eve 1913/14. It is the year, which will see the outbreak of...
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Die Fledermaus
as Attaché Baranoff / OrlovskyThe delightful Johann Strauss comic opera Die Fledermaus was mercilessly lampooned in this truly...
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Five from the Jazzband
as JeanBy pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre...
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Secret Venture
as ZelinskyAn American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret...
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Das Kriminalmuseum
as Dr. Robert GroßmannDas Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one...
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