Karel Štěpánek (29 October 189925 December 1980) was a

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actor who spent many years in

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and generally played German roles onscreen. In 1940 he moved to

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and spent much of the rest of his career acting there.

Partial filmography

* '' A Love, A Thief, A Department Store'' (1928) * '' Berlin-Alexanderplatz'' (1931) * ''

Here's Berlin ''Here's Berlin'' or ''Hello Berlin, Paris Calling'' (french: Allo Berlin? Ici Paris!, german: Hallo hallo! Hier spricht Berlin!) is a 1932 French-German romantic comedy film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Josette Day, Germaine Aussey a ...

'' (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 ''Waltz War'' (German: ''Walzerkrieg'') is a 1933 German musical comedy film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Renate Müller, Willy Fritsch and Paul Hörbiger. It is loosely based on the rivalry between waltz composers Joseph Lanner and Jo ...

'' (1933) as Kellner Leopold * ''

Hermine and the Seven Upright Men ''Hermine and the Seven Upright Men'' (german: Hermine und die sieben Aufrechten) is a 1935 German drama film based on the novella by Gottfried Keller. Cast * Heinrich George - Zimmermeister Frymann * Karin Hardt - Hermine, seine Tochter * Pa ...

'' (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 ''Signal in the Night'' (German: ''Signal in der Nacht'') is a 1937 German war drama film directed by Richard Schneider-Edenkoben and starring Sybille Schmitz, Inge List and Hannes Stelzer.Moeller p.74 Location shooting took place at Grünwald Ca ...

'' (1937) as Korporal Tschepski * ' (1937) as Attaché / Orlovsky * ''Klatovsti dragouni'' (1937) as Dance Master * '' The Stars Shine'' (1938) as Oberbeleuchter Brandt * ''Narren im Schnee'' (1939) as Rolf Pinkenkötter * ''War es der im 3. Stock?'' (1939) as Georg Kilby * ' (1939) as Lawyer * ''

Hotel Sacher Hotel Sacher is a five-star luxury hotel in Vienna, Austria, facing the Vienna State Opera in the city's central Innere Stadt district. It is famous for the specialty of the house, the Sachertorte, a chocolate cake with apricot filling. There is ...

'' (1939) as Franz * '' Three Fathers for Anna'' (1939) * ''

The Leghorn Hat ''The Leghorn Hat'' (german: Der Florentiner Hut) is a 1939 German period comedy film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Heinz Rühmann, Herti Kirchner and Christl Mardayn. It is based on the 1851 play '' The Italian Straw Hat'' writ ...

'' (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 ''Women Are Better Diplomats'' (german: Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten) is a 1941 German musical comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Marika Rökk, Willy Fritsch and Aribert Wäscher. It was based on a novel by Hans Flemming. ...

'' (1941) as Kellner * ''

Secret Mission ''Secret Mission'' is a 1942 British war film directed by Harold French and starring Hugh Williams, James Mason, Nancy Price, Carla Lehmann and Roland Culver. Plot During the Second World War, British Army Major Peter Garnett assembles a team ...

'' (1942) as Major Lang * '' Tomorrow We Live'' (1943) as Seitz * ''

Escape to Danger ''Escape to Danger'' is a 1943 British thriller film directed by Lance Comfort and Victor Hanbury and starring Eric Portman, Ann Dvorak and Karel Stepanek. Plot During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught u ...

'' (1943) as Franz von Brinkman * ''

They Met in the Dark ''They Met in the Dark'' is a 1943 British comedy thriller film directed by Karel Lamač and starring James Mason, Joyce Howard and Edward Rigby. The screenplay concerns a cashiered Royal Naval officer and a young woman who join forces to solv ...

'' (1943) as Riccardo * ''

The Captive Heart ''The Captive Heart'' is a 1946 British war drama, directed by Basil Dearden and starring Michael Redgrave. It is about a Czechoslovak Army officer who is captured in the Fall of France and spends five years as a prisoner of war, during which ti ...

'' (1946) as Forster * '' Counterblast'' (1948) as Professor Inman, Nazi Psychiatrist * ''

Broken Journey ''Broken Journey'' (also known as ''Rescue'') is a 1948 British drama film directed by Ken Annakin and featuring Phyllis Calvert, James Donald, Margot Grahame, Raymond Huntley and Guy Rolfe. ''Broken Journey'' deals with people struggling to sur ...

'' (1948) as Swiss Officer (uncredited) * '' The Fallen Idol'' (1948) as First Secretary * '' Conspirator'' (1949) as Radek * ''

The Third Man ''The Third Man'' is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Set in postwar Vienna, the film centres on American Holly Martins (Cotten ...

'' (1949) as Actor at Josefstadt Theatre (uncredited) * '' Give Us This Day'' (1949) as Jaroslav * '' Golden Arrow'' (1949) as Schroeder * ''

Cairo Road Cairo Road is the main thoroughfare of Lusaka, Zambia and the principal business, retail and service centre of the city. It is a section of the T2 road and was so named because it is a link in Cecil Rhodes' then dream of a Cape to Cairo Road ...

'' (1950) as Edouardo Pavlis * '' State Secret'' (1950) as Dr. Revo * '' The Third Visitor'' (1951) as Richard Carling * ''

No Highway No (and variant writings) may refer to one of these articles: English language * ''Yes'' and ''no'' (responses) * A determiner in noun phrases Alphanumeric symbols * No (kana), a letter/syllable in Japanese script * No symbol, displayed � ...

'' (1951) as Mannheim (uncredited) * ''

Walk East on Beacon ''Walk East on Beacon'' is a 1952 American film noir drama film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring George Murphy, Finlay Currie, and Virginia Gilmore. It was released by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was inspired by a May 1951 ''Re ...

'' (1952) as Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders * ''

Affair in Trinidad ''Affair in Trinidad'' is a 1952 American film noir directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. It was produced by Hayworth's Beckworth Corporation and released by Columbia Pictures. It is notable as Hayworth's "comebac ...

'' (1952) as Walters * '' City Beneath the Sea'' (1953) as Dwight Trevor * '' Never Let Me Go'' (1953) as Commisar * ''

Rough Shoot ''Rough Shoot'', released in the USA as ''Shoot First'', is a 1953 British thriller film directed by Robert Parrish and written by Eric Ambler, based on the 1951 novel by Geoffrey Household. The film stars Joel McCrea, in his only postwar no ...

'' (1953) as Diss * ''

Dangerous Cargo ''Dangerous Cargo'' is a 1954 British second feature crime film directed by John Harlow starring Jack Watling, Susan Stephen and Karel Stepanek. The film was produced by Stanley Haynes for ACT Films. '' Daily Express'' crime reporter Percy H ...

'' (1954) as Pliny * ''Tale of Three Women'' (1954) as Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story) * ''

A Prize of Gold ''A Prize of Gold'' is a 1955 Technicolor film noir crime film directed by Mark Robson partly filmed in West Berlin. The film stars Richard Widmark as a United States Air Force Air Police Master Sergeant motivated by love and compassion to ...

'' (1955) as Zachmann * ''

Secret Venture ''Secret Venture'' is a 1955 British B-movie thriller film directed by R. G. Springsteen and starring Kent Taylor, Jane Hylton and Kathleen Byron. Plot Renowned scientist Professor Henrik (Hugo Schuster) returns to England from a working trip ...

'' (1955) as Zelinsky * ''

The Cockleshell Heroes ''The Cockleshell Heroes'' is a 1955 British Technicolor war film with Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley, Christopher Lee, David Lodge and José Ferrer, who also directed. The film depicts a heavily fictionalised version of Operation Frankton, the ...

'' (1955) as Assistant Gestapo Officer * '' Man of the Moment'' (1955) as Lom * ''

Private's Progress ''Private's Progress'' is a 1956 British comedy film based on the novel by Alan Hackney. It was directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting, from a script by John Boulting and Frank Harvey. Plot During the Second World War, young undergrad ...

'' (1956) as German Officer (uncredited) * ''

The Man in the Road ''The Man in the Road'' is a 1956 British thriller film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Derek Farr, Ella Raines, Donald Wolfit and Cyril Cusack. The film was shot at Beaconsfield Studios. It was based on a popular contemporary novel ''H ...

'' (1956) as Dmitri Balinkev * ''

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'' (1956) as Mikhail Vlados * '' The Traitor'' (1957) as Friederich Suderman * ''

West of Suez ''West of Suez'', released in the United States as ''The Fighting Wildcats'', is a 1957 British drama film directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring Keefe Brasselle, Kay Callard and Karel Stepanek. Premise An adventurer is hired to assassinate t ...

'' (1957) as Langford * ''

Operation Amsterdam ''Operation Amsterdam'' is a 1959 black and white British action film, directed by Michael McCarthy, and featuring Peter Finch, Eva Bartok and Tony Britton. It is based on a true story as described in the book ''Adventure in Diamonds'', by Da ...

'' (1959) as Diamond Merchant (uncredited) * '' Our Man in Havana'' (1959) as Dr. Braun * ''

Sink the Bismarck! ''Sink the Bismarck!'' is a 1960 black-and-white CinemaScope British war film based on the 1959 book ''The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck'' by C. S. Forester. It stars Kenneth More and Dana Wynter and was directed by Lewis Gilbert.Weiler, A.H ...

'' (1960) as Admiral

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* ''

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'' (1960) as Captain Dornberger * ''

Three Moves to Freedom ''Brainwashed'' (original title ''Schachnovelle'', "Chess Novella") is a 1960 German drama film directed by Gerd Oswald and starring Curt Jürgens, Claire Bloom and Hansjörg Felmy. It is based on Stefan Zweig's novella ''The Royal Game''. Pl ...

'' (1960) as Baranow * '' Terror After Midnight'' (1962) as Vater Stoddard * '' Devil Doll'' (1964) as Dr. Heller * ''

Operation Crossbow ''Crossbow'' was the code name in World War II for Anglo-American operations against the German long range reprisal weapons (V-weapons) programme. The main V-weapons were the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket – these were launched against Brita ...

'' (1965) as Prof. Hoffer * '' Licensed to Kill'' (1965) as Henrik Jacobsen * ''

The Heroes of Telemark ''The Heroes of Telemark'' is a 1965 British war film directed by Anthony Mann based on the true story of the Norwegian heavy water sabotage during the Second World War from ''Skis Against the Atom'', the memoirs of Norwegian resistance soldi ...

'' (1965) as Prof. Hartmuller * ''

Sperrbezirk ''Sperrbezirk'' is a 1966 West German comedy drama film directed by Will Tremper and starring Harald Leipnitz, Suzanne Roquette and Guido Baumann. It is adapted from a story by Ernst Neubach. The film was also known as ''Sperrbezirk, das Gesch� ...

'' (1966) as Inspector Wagner * ''

The Frozen Dead ''The Frozen Dead'' is a 1966 British science fiction horror film written, produced and directed by Herbert J. Leder and starring Dana Andrews, Anna Palk and Philip Gilbert. In this film, Nazi scientist Dr. Norberg (Dana Andrews) attempts to ...

'' (1967) as General Lubeck * ''

Murderers Club of Brooklyn ''Murderers Club of Brooklyn'' (german: Der Mörderclub von Brooklyn) is a 1967 German thriller film directed by Werner Jacobs and starring George Nader, Heinz Weiss, and Karel Stepanek. It was part of the Jerry Cotton series of films. The film ...

'' (1967) as Dyers * ''

Before Winter Comes ''Before Winter Comes'' is a 1969 British comedy-drama war film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Andrew Sinclair. Plot ''Before Winter Comes'' takes place in the immediate aftermath of World War II. British Major Giles Burnside ...

'' (1969) as Count Kerassy * ''

The File of the Golden Goose ''The File of the Golden Goose'' is a 1969 British neo noir thriller film directed by Sam Wanamaker and starring Yul Brynner, Charles Gray and Edward Woodward. Its plot involves an American detective being sent to Britain to track down a majo ...

'' (1969) as Mueller * '' The Games'' (1970) as Kubitsek * ''

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me ''Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me'' is a novel by Richard Fariña. Parts campus novel and travelogue, the book was first published in 1966 and is largely based on Fariña's college experiences and travels. Set variously in an upstat ...

'' (1971) as Count Derassy (final film role)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stepanek, Karel 1899 births 1980 deaths Actors from Brno Czech male film actors Czechoslovak emigrants to Austria Czechoslovak emigrants to the United Kingdom Czechoslovak male film actors People from the Margraviate of Moravia