Karl Stepanek
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1899-10-27
- Décès:
- 1980-12-25
- Lieu de naissance:
- Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
Biographie
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).
Connu pour
Filmographie
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
The Games
Le Gang de l'oiseau d'or
Avant que vienne l'hiver
Jerry Cotton - Der Mörderclub von Brooklyn
The Frozen Dead
Sperrbezirk
Les Héros de Télémark
Licensed to Kill
Opération Crossbow
La Poupée diabolique
Aufstand der Gehorsamen
Das Kriminalmuseum
Le Joueur d'échecs
L'homme des fusées secrètes
Coulez le Bismarck !
Notre agent à La Havane
No Hiding Place
Operation Amsterdam
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
West of Suez
The Traitor
Anastasia
Armchair Theatre
The Man in the Road
Man of the Moment
Commando dans la Gironde
Secret Venture
A Prize of Gold
Dangerous Cargo
Tale of Three Women
La Cité sous la mer
Rough Shoot
Ne me Quitte Jamais
L'Affaire de Trinidad
Walk East on Beacon
Le Voyage fantastique
The Third Visitor
Secret d'état
Cairo Road
Golden Arrow
Give Us This Day
Le Troisième Homme
Conspirator
Première désillusion
Counterblast
Voyage Brisé
The Captive Heart
Escape to Danger
They Met in the Dark
Tomorrow We Live
Service secret
Our Film
Alles Schwindel
Drei Väter um Anna
Der Florentiner Hut
Hotel Sacher
Das Abenteuer geht weiter
War es der im 3. Stock?
Narren im Schnee
Klatovští dragouni
Die Fledermaus
Die Unbekannte
Stärker als Paragraphen
Der Außenseiter
Die Werft zum grauen Hecht
Pozdní láska
Na růžích ustláno
Hermine und die sieben Aufrechten
Walzerkrieg
Ein Lied für Dich
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
Fünf von der Jazzband
Allo Berlin? Ici Paris!
Sur le pavé de Berlin