---
name: "Stefan Schnabel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stefan-schnabel"
fi1m_id: "stefan-schnabel"
imdb_id: "nm0773608"
tmdb_id: 87457
wikidata_id: "Q87336"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "2 February 1912"
died: "11 March 1999"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T17:49:03.339282+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Stefan Schnabel

## Identity

Stefan Schnabel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/stefan-schnabel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** stefan-schnabel
- **IMDb ID:** nm0773608
- **TMDB ID:** 87457
- **Wikidata ID:** Q87336
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Schnabel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87336, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0773608/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/87457

Actor. Born 2 February 1912 in Berlin, Germany. Died 11 March 1999.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 2 February 1912, Berlin, Germany
- **Died:** 11 March 1999
- **Also known as:** Stefan Artur Schnabel
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Schnabel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87336, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0773608/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/87457

## Biography

Stefan Artur Schnabel (2 February 1912 – 11 March 1999) was a German-American actor. Born in Berlin, he was the son of pianist Artur Schnabel and contralto Therese Behr Schnabel. He left Germany in 1933 and moved to the United States in 1937, becoming an original member of Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre company.

Schnabel worked extensively in theatre, radio, film and television. He appeared on Broadway and with the Old Vic, and played Dr Stephen Jackson on the CBS soap opera *Guiding Light* from 1966 to 1981. His film roles include Col. Ilya Ranov in *The Iron Curtain* (1948), the First Secretary in *Firefox* (1982) and a party guest in *Green Card* (1990). He was married to actress Marion Kohler from 1947.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Firefox* (1982), Fi1m 47, as First Secretary — [page](https://film.one/film/firefox.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Green Card* (1990), as Party Guest
- *Dracula's Widow* (1988), as Helsing
- *Anna* (1987), as Professor
- *Stone Pillow* (1985), as Mr. Berman
- *Lovesick* (1983), as Gunnar Bergsen, M.D.
- *Firefox* (1982), as First Secretary — Fi1m 47, [page](https://film.one/film/firefox.md)
- *Blood Bath* (1975), as Film Director
- *The Happy Hooker* (1975), as Elderly Gentleman
- *Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside* (1973), as Luber
- *Rampage* (1963), as Sakai Cheif
- *The Ugly American* (1963), as Andrei Krupitzyn
- *Freud: The Secret Passion* (1962), as Chairman of Medical Profession in Vienna (uncredited)
- *Two Weeks in Another Town* (1962), as Zeno
- *The Children of Alda Nuova* (1962), as Siani
- *The Counterfeit Traitor* (1962), as Gestapo agent at funeral
- *The Big Show* (1961), as Lawyer
- *The Secret Ways* (1961), as Border Official
- *There's Going to Be a Party* (1960), as Bragarian
- *Checkmate* (1960), series, as Anton Szorny
- *Tales of the Vikings* (1959), series, Actor
- *The Mugger* (1958), as Fats Donner
- *The Rifleman* (1958), series, Actor
- *The 27th Day* (1957), as The Soviet General
- *Crowded Paradise* (1956), as Big Man
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Siani
- *Houdini* (1953), as German Prosecuting Attorney
- *Diplomatic Courier* (1952), as Rasumny Platov
- *Barbary Pirate* (1949), as Yusof - the Bey of Tripoli
- *The Iron Curtain* (1948), as Col. Ilya Ranov
- *Journey into Fear* (1943), as Translator for ships captain
- *The Cold Heart* (1933), as Holländer-Michel

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