Karl Stepanek
Nacimiento : 1899-10-29, Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]
Muerte : 1980-12-25
Historia
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).
Over one hour of black-and-white location footage and interviews with the stars and director, all staged outdoors in manifestly frigid conditions. Mann talks about his filmmaking philosophy and the challenges of shooting in such rugged locations, and shares his insights on the Douglas-Harris feud:Harris projects a refreshing honesty and cheeky charm in his interview segment, even asking himself a question at one point! Douglas is equally charismatic, if a little more calculated in his awareness of the camera.
Kubitsek
From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the world. They are also the pawns of powerful nations, the victims of dangerous drugs and the object of many men's ambitions. Once every four years they come together... for the Olympic Games.
Mueller
Novak es un agente americano que es llamado para una misión en Londres. En la capital inglesa deberá trabajar junto al agente Thompson para dar con una cuadrilla de falsificadores de dinero, y para ello trabajarán como infiltrados. (FILMAFFINITY)
Count Kerassy
Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), los Aliados tuvieron que repatriar a los civiles confinados en campos de refugiados. Un testarudo oficial británico, el Mayor Burnside (David Niven), dirige uno de estos campos en Austria. Janovic (Topol), un refugiado veterano y políglota, se convierte en el intérprete y mano derecha del Mayor.
Dyers
Fifth Jerry Cotton Movie. A rich capitalist is blackmailed and threatened with the murder of his daughter.
General Lubeck
Un científico nazi lleva a cabo osados experimentos con miembros humanos, con la misión de descongelar a un grupo de jerarcas y instaurar el IV Reich.
Inspector Wagner
Hartmuller
II Guerra Mundial. En 1942, en la Noruega ocupada por los nazis, los aliados encuentran un documento que es la prueba irrefutable de que los alemanes están avanzando en la búsqueda de la fisión atómica. Con la ayuda de partisanos noruegos, un comando británico intenta sabotear las instalaciones alemanas dedicadas a la fabricación de la bomba atómica.
Henrik Jacobsen
An English spy (Tom Adams) guards a Scandinavian scientist (Karl Stepanek) who has sold an anti-gravity device to each side.
Prof. Hoffer
Durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), a un comando secreto de las fuerzas aliadas le encargan la misión de localizar una fábrica donde ingenieros nazis están trabajando en la creación de un nuevo y poderoso misil. Uno de los agentes logrará infiltrarse en la factoría.
Dr. Heller
Un hipnotizador y ventrílocuo actúa ante el público con una marioneta, cosechando considerables éxitos, ya que el muñeco habla y se mueve por sí mismo. En una actuación, asiste un periodista que intenta averiguar el truco que esconde el muñeco.
Jawor Stranski
Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
Basada en una historia real, reLata una de las más famosas batallas navales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En la primavera de 1941, el Bismarck, el acorazado más temible de la armada alemana, considerado el azote de la flota del Atlántico, permanece anclado en la costa noruega. Buscando el camino hacia la libertad y seguridad proporcionada por la Luftwaffe, el acorazado es perseguido por la Marina Real Británica.
Dr. Braun
Jim Wormald, un comerciante inglés afincado en La Habana, se dedica a la venta de aspiradoras; casi por casualidad y muy a su pesar es reclutado como espía del servicio secreto británico en la Cuba de Batista. Acepta el trabajo porque considera que el dinero le permitirá pagar los estudios de su hija. Sin embargo, su falta de vocación y de entusiasmo son tales que acaba inventándose los informes que envía a Londres.
Langford
In this suspense movie, a Yankee mercenary is hired to blow up an Arab dignitary.
Friederich Suderman
One time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader, betrayed to and executed by the Nazis. When it seems that they might finally know the name of the traitor - and that he or she comes from within their own unit - their annual gathering becomes a deadly trial...
Mikhail Vlados
París, 1928. Tras la Revolución Rusa de 1917 y, después de varios años de exilio, un grupo de súbditos leales al zarismo sigue buscando el rastro de la Gran Duquesa Anastasia, la única superviviente de la matanza de Ekaterimburgo (1918), ciudad donde los bolcheviques de Lenin acabaron con la dinastía de los Romanov.
Dmitri Balinkev
A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.
Assistant Gestapo Officer
Esta es la verdadera historia sobre cómo un grupo de marines se arriesgaron a surcar el Garona en kayak para atacar a un buque alemán, cuando Francia estaba bajo ocupación nazi. (FILMAFFINITY)
Zelinsky
An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries seem determined to get.
Dr. Zachmann
Adaptación de una novela de Max Cotto. Terminada la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Joe Lawrence (Richard Widmark), un oficial americano, se instala en Berlín y se enamora de Maria, una refugiada (Mai Zetterling). El objetivo de ella es ahorrar suficiente dinero para llevar a Sudámerica a un grupo de huérfanos alemanes y proporcionarles una vida mejor. Joe, movido por la compasión y por el amor que siente hacia ella, tratará de ayudarla. Para ello, él y dos amigos planean el robo de una gran fortuna en oro que el ejército va a trasladar en avión desde Inglaterra a Alemania.
Lom
Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a knight. Norman leaves rooms in shambles, tailors in shreds, and diplomats in bandages. Chased by gunmen and assassins of foreign powers, Norman finds himself running through active TV studio sets and interrupts various programs and performances in progress
Pliny
Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shipment of gold bullion so he and his gang can steal it.
Alfred Dykemann (segment "Final Twist' story)
A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling Scotland Yard"
Dwight Trevor
Los buceadores Brad Carlton (Robert Ryan) y Tony Bartlett (Anthony Quinn) llegan a Jamaica para intentar rescatar el tesoro del "Lady Luck", hundido cuando llevaba una importante carga de oro a bordo. Contratan a la bella Terry McBride (Mala Powers) para encontrar el barco, pero no lo encuentran...
Diss
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hotbed of spies and secret agents.
Commissar
Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un corresponsal americano en Moscú se casa con una bailarina de ballet. Posteriormente es expulsado del país y no tiene más remedio que abandonarla. Hará todo lo que esté en su mano para recuperarla.
Walters
Steve Emery (Glenn Ford) no cree ni por un momento que su hermano se haya suicidado en Trinidad, así que intenta averiguar la verdad sobre su muerte, actitud que lo enfrenta con su cuñada Chris Emery (Hayworth), cantante en un club nocturno. Desesperado, al verla coquetear con un espía que supone que es el asesino de su hermano, Steve tendrá que actuar con rapidez si quiere impedir que Chris se convierta en la siguiente víctima...
Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
Un agente del gobierno busca una célula de pérfidos infiltrados comunistas en Boston.
Theodore, un ingeniero aeronáutico, debe someter a revisión un avión de su compañía. Después de examinarlo, detecta un cierto desgaste de los materiales que implicaría un riesgo lo bastante alto como para que le parezca oportuno advertir a la tripulación de un aparato que se encuentra en pleno vuelo.
Dr. Revo
Un norteamericano (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) se da cuenta de que el monarca de un ignoto estado europeo ha sido reemplazado por un sosías.
Edouardo Pavlis
A police chief stationed in Egypt sets out to crack down on drug traffickers along the frontiers. With his assistant, he attempts to block the smugglers' passage along the notorious Cairo Road route into the country.
Richard Carling
Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him. Next morning a corpse is found, and later identified as his by one of the visitors.
Schroeder
On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.
Jaroslav
Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.
Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
Orson Welles es Harry Lime y Joseph Cotten actúa como su amigo de la infancia, Holly Martins, en este clásico thriller de Graham Greene, dirigido por Carol Reed. Martins busca a Lime en la caótica postguerra de Viena, y se encuentra así mismo metido en un entorno de amores, decepción y asesinatos.
Radek
Durante la Guerra Fría un oficial recién casado se enfrenta a una difícil elección a causa de su verdadera ocupación. Es un espía comunista que maneja información militar secreta. Cuando su mujer lo descubre le pide el divorcio, pero todo se complica cuando sus superiores le piden que acabe con ella.
First Secretary
El matrimonio Baines es personal de servicio de una embajada. La pareja cuida de Felipe, que es el hijo del embajador. El señor Baines (Ralph Richardson) y el pequeño son dos compañeros inseparables pero la señora Baines (Sonia Dresdel) trata de una manera dura y autoritaria al pequeño. Baines se enamora de una secretaria de la embajada. Felipe intenta ocultar el secreto. Pero la mujer se entera de lo ocurrido por la indiscreción del pequeño. Poco después, el señor Baines es acusado de matar a su esposa, que cae por las escaleras. Estrenada el 31 de Agosto 1948 en el Festival de Venecia.
Swiss Officer (uncredited)
Passengers and crew struggle to survive after their plane crashes in the Alps.
Professor Inman
An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect the Germans in their planned germ warfare.
Forster
En el verano de 1940, el capitán checo Karel Hasek (Michael Redgrave) escapa del campo de concentración de Dachau y asume la identidad de un oficial británico muerto, el capitán Geoffrey Mitchell. Después de ser atrapado, acompañará a miles de prisioneros de guerra británicos a un campo de prisioneros.
Franz von Brinkman
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
Riccardo
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
Seitz
British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and shooting innocent hostages in reprisal for acts of sabotage. The opening credits acknowledge "the official co-operation of General de Gaulle and the French National Committee". It was released as "At Dawn We Die" in the US.
Major Lang
Tres espías británicos y un miembro de la Resistencia se infiltran en la Francia ocupada para reunir información sobre las fuerzas alemanas, en vistas a una invasión.
Soviet Visitor
A British factory is inefficient because of pre-war rules and red tape. A Soviet trades union representative shows workers and management the value of unity.
Felix, Diener bei Farina
Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Franz
Vienna is celebrating New Year’s Eve 1913/14. It is the year, which will see the outbreak of the First World War. In Hotel Sacher, the mood is excellent; and although the political atmosphere is charged, there’s an undercurrent of hate and intolerance in the air. It is with this background that Nadja, a Russian spy, meets the Austrian civil servant Stefan. He loves her, but comes under suspicion of being an agent because of this love.
Georg Kilby
Rolf Pinkenkötter
Attaché Baranoff / Orlovsky
The delightful Johann Strauss comic opera Die Fledermaus was mercilessly lampooned in this truly bizarre production. For starters, a framing device has been added: After appearing in 300 consecutive appearances of Fledermaus (which translates as The Bat) the lead tenor (Georg Alexander) imagines that he's seeing bats everywhere. Driven a bit over the edge by all this, he falls asleep and has a nightmare about the opera, with a group of non-singers cast in the leading roles. The original libretto about romantic assignations, political imprisonments and mistaken identity is burlesqued to the hilt: at one point, the hero finds out that his prison cell is surrounded by rubber tubes!
Manager at Regina's
The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate. The film then flashes back to months before, showing the torrid love affair between a young cabaret singer and a rich playboy that ultimately results in tragedy for the girl.
Otto Burian
Ruckstuhl
Kellner Leopold
Theo Bruckner
During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer. She is in fact trying to get a position for her boyfriend, so she accepts Gatti's date for supper. When she runs away he publishes a newspaper ad offering to give a concert anywhere she chooses if she shows up. She chooses a swimming pool hoping to discourage him, but he accepts.
Jackson
Jean
By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre “Trocadero”. Unfortunately, she knows nothing about music and it doesn’t help that all four musicians are in love with her. Jessie doesn’t reciprocate their feelings, because she has a thing for Martin. Unfortunately, Martin believes that Jessie stole his car … and so, right before the premiere at the cabaret, she ends up in jail.
Max
Story of a rendezvous in Paris which is prepared through telephone calls between a Berlin telephonist and his female colleague in Paris.
