Emil Stepanek (21 February 1895 – 12 April 1945) was an Austrian set designer and film architect.
Stepanek was born in Vienna, the son of a carpenter, and received a training in stage set construction, in which he worked for several years.
In the years that followed he often worked with the renowned film architects Julius von Borsody, Artur Berger and Alexander Ferenczy, particularly on the epic films of Sascha-Film directed by Alexander Korda and Michael Curtiz: Prinz und Bettelknabe (1920), Sodom und Gomorrha (1922), Die Sklavenkönigin (1924) and Salammbô (1924).
In 1944 he became director of the whole of set construction in the Rosenhügel Film Studios.
On 12 April 1945, one day before the end of hostilities in World War II in Vienna, he lost his life in unexplained circumstances.