# Karel Štěpánek

Karel Štěpánek (29 October 1899 – 25 December 1980) was a Czech actor who spent many years in Austria and generally played German roles onscreen. In 1940 he moved to the UK 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 (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 (1933) as Kellner Leopold
* Hermine and the Seven Upright Men (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 (1937) as Korporal Tschepski
* Die Fledermaus [it] (1937) as Attaché / Orlovsky
* Klatovsti dragouni (1937) as Dance Master
* 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
* Das Abenteuer geht weiter [de] (1939) as Lawyer
* 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) 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 (1948) as First Secretary
* Conspirator (1949) as Radek
* The Third Man (1949) as Actor at Josefstadt Theatre (uncredited)
* Give Us This Day (1949) as Jaroslav
* Golden Arrow (1949) as Schroeder
* Cairo Road (1950) as Edouardo Pavlis
* 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) as Dwight Trevor
* 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) as Lom
* Private's Progress (1956) as German Officer (uncredited)
* The Man in the Road (1956) as Dmitri Balinkev
* Anastasia (1956) as Mikhail Vlados
* The Traitor (1957) as Friederich Suderman
* West of Suez (1957) as Langford
* Operation Amsterdam (1959) as Diamond Merchant (uncredited)
* 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 (1964) as Dr. Heller
* Operation Crossbow (1965) as Prof. Hoffer
* 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 (1970) as Kubitsek
* Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1971) as Count Derassy (final film role)