Karel Stepanek


Biography

Karel Stepanek was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Stepanek started his acting career landing roles in such films as the Robert Taylor drama "Conspirator" (1950), the romance "Affair in Trinidad" (1952) with Rita Hayworth and "City Beneath the Sea" (1953) with Robert Ryan. He also appeared in the drama "Never Let Me Go" (1953) with Clark Gable and the drama "The Gay A...

Biography

Karel Stepanek was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Stepanek started his acting career landing roles in such films as the Robert Taylor drama "Conspirator" (1950), the romance "Affair in Trinidad" (1952) with Rita Hayworth and "City Beneath the Sea" (1953) with Robert Ryan. He also appeared in the drama "Never Let Me Go" (1953) with Clark Gable and the drama "The Gay Adventure" (1953) with Burgess Meredith. He continued to work steadily in film throughout the fifties and the sixties, appearing in the crime adaptation "Prize of Gold" (1955) with Richard Widmark, "Anastasia" (1956) and "The Cockleshell Heroes" (1956). He also appeared in "Die Schachnovelle" (1960) and "I Aim at the Stars" (1960). Nearing the end of his career, he tackled roles in the comedic adaptation "Our Man in Havana" (1960) with Alec Guinness, the Kenneth More dramatic adaptation "Sink the Bismarck!" (1960) and the dramatic adaptation "The Heroes of Telemark" (1965) with Kirk Douglas. He also appeared in "Before Winter Comes" (1968) and the Yul Brynner crime flick "The File of the Golden Goose" (1969). Stepanek more recently acted in the Michael Crawford sports drama "The Games" (1970). Stepanek passed away in December 1980 at the age of 81.

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Affair In Trinidad (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Trinidad Lady No fooling around, brief bit with Steven Geray greeting Torin Thatcher and Howard Wendell but really producer-director Vincent Sherman is delivering the first appearance of Rita Hayworth, as night club performer Chris Emery, with a new song by Bob Russell and Lester Lee, in her first movie after the failure of her marriage to prince Aly Khan, in Columbia’s Affair In Trinidad, 1952, Rita’s vocal by Jo Ann Greer, choreography by Valerie Bettis and dress by Jean Louis.
Walk East On Beacon (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Bells Of Moscow Communist fifth columnist and Boston florist Danzig (Bruno Wick) gets dissed after he introduces married Washingtonian fellow traveler Elaine (Louisa Horton) to Laschenkov (Karel Stepanek), the impatient new man from Moscow, in the FBI-approved espionage drama Walk East On Beacon, 1952.
Walk East On Beacon (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Forces Of Treason The ominous Westbrook Van Voorhis narrates and the credited author of the original work, J. Edgar Hoover, appears briefly, as the indefatigable anti-Hollywood producer Louis de Rochemont launches his anti-communist procedural Walk East On Beacon, 1952, starring George Murphy.
Walk East On Beacon (1952) -- (Movie Clip) We Have Ways Deep-cover Soviet agent "Millie" (Virginia Gilmore) acknowledges visiting Moscow controller Laschenkov (Karel Stepanek), then in a Boston cafe approaches immigrant research mathematician Kafer (Finlay Currie) with a threat, in Louis de Rochemont's anti-communist Walk East On Beacon, 1952.
Prize of Gold, A -- (Movie Clip) Conrad When a kid named Conrad (Andrew Ray) steals his jeep, Sgt. Joe Lawrence meets Maria (Mai Zetterling) and Dr. Zachman (Karel Stepanek) who save orphans in post-war Berlin in A Prize of Gold, 1955.

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