{{Short description|Czech actor (1899–1980)}} {{Use British English|date=July 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox person | image = Actor_Karel_Štěpánek.jpg | caption = in ''[[Secret Mission]]'' (1942) | image_size = | name = Karel Štěpánek | birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|10|29|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Brno]], Cisleithania, Austria-Hungary | death_date = {{Death date and age|1980|12|25|1899|10|29|df=yes}} | death_place = London, England | other_names = Karel Stepanek | occupation = [[Film actor]] | years_active = 1928–1971 }}
'''Karel Štěpánek''' (29 October 1899{{spaced ndash}}25 December 1980) was a Czech actor who spent many years in Austria and generally played German roles onscreen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/91086|title=Karel Stepanek|work=BFI|access-date=11 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021151236/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/91086|archive-date=21 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1940 he moved to the UK and spent much of the rest of his career acting there.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=16464|title=Karel Stepanek|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/183989%7C91895/karel-stepanek#filmography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228094539/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/183989%7C91895/Karel-Stepanek/#filmography|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 December 2011|title=Filmography for Karel Stepanek|work=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/karel-stepanek-p67967|title=Karel Stepanek movies, photos, movie reviews, filmography, and biography – AllMovie|work=AllMovie}}</ref>
==Partial filmography== * ''[[A Love, A Thief, A Department Store]]'' (1928) * ''[[Berlin-Alexanderplatz (1931 film)|Berlin-Alexanderplatz]]'' (1931) * ''[[Here's Berlin]]'' (1932) as Max * ''[[Five from the Jazz Band]]'' (1932) as Jean * ''[[Spies at the Savoy Hotel]]'' (1932) as Jackson * ''[[A Song for You (film)|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 grauen Hecht'' (1935) as Ladewig * ''Der Auβenseiter'' (1935) as Otto Burian * ''[[Stronger Than Regulations]]'' (1936) as Robert Wendland *''[[The Unknown (1936 film)|The Unknown]]'' (1936) as Manager at Regina's * ''[[Signal in the Night]]'' (1937) as Korporal Tschepski * ''{{Interlanguage link|Die Fledermaus (1937 film)|it|3=Die Fledermaus (film 1937)|lt=Die Fledermaus}}'' (1937) as Attaché / Orlovsky {{div col}} * ''Klatovští dragouni'' (1937) as Dance Master * ''[[The Stars Shine (film)|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 * ''{{Ill|Das Abenteuer geht weiter|de}}'' (1939) as Lawyer * ''[[Hotel Sacher (film)|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 film)|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 (film)|The Fallen Idol]]'' (1948) as First Secretary * ''[[Conspirator (1949 film)|Conspirator]]'' (1949) as Radek * ''[[The Third Man]]'' (1949) as Actor at Josefstadt Theatre (uncredited) * ''[[Give Us This Day (1949 film)|Give Us This Day]]'' (1949) as Jaroslav * ''[[Golden Arrow (1949 film)|Golden Arrow]]'' (1949) as Schroeder * ''[[Cairo Road (film)|Cairo Road]]'' (1950) as Edouardo Pavlis * ''[[State Secret (1950 film)|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 film)|City Beneath the Sea]]'' (1953) as Dwight Trevor * ''[[Never Let Me Go (1953 film)|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 film)|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 film)|Anastasia]]'' (1956) as Mikhail Vlados * ''[[The Traitor (1957 film)|The Traitor]]'' (1957) as Friederich Suderman * ''[[West of Suez]]'' (1957) as Langford * ''[[Operation Amsterdam]]'' (1959) as Diamond Merchant (uncredited) * ''[[Our Man in Havana (film)|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 (film)|Devil Doll]]'' (1964) as Dr. Heller * ''[[Operation Crossbow (film)|Operation Crossbow]]'' (1965) as Prof. Hoffer * ''[[Licensed to Kill (1965 film)|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 (film)|The Games]]'' (1970) as Kubitsek * ''[[Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (film)|Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me]]'' (1971) as Count Derassy (final film role) {{div col end}}
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0826749}}
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