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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 7, 1941
Died
July 31, 2022
Place of Birth
Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
John Steiner
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Biography
John Steiner (born 7 January 1941 in Chester) is an English actor. Tall, thin and gaunt, Steiner attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and worked for a few years at the BBC. Steiner featured in a lead role in a television production of Design for Living by Noel Coward. Later he found further work primarily in films. In the late 1960s, Steiner was hired to play a part in the spaghetti western Tepepa. He found himself in demand in Italy and relocated there, specializing in playing villains in a great number of Italian B-movies and exploitation films. John Steiner has appeared in various genres of movies, including horror films and police actioners. He also became a favorite of famed Italian filmmaker Tinto Brass featuring in Salon Kitty alongside Ingrid Thulin and Helmut Berger. Steiner was in very steady demand until the late 1980s. As the Italian film industry dwindled, Steiner retired from acting in 1991 and relocated to California, where he became a real estate agent. In the late 1990s a special magazine was started by Cranston McMillan's Also Press. Titled, John Steiner the zine was dedicated to Steiner's film, TV and stage work, featured reviews and helping fans trace prints of his more obscure Italian work, the publication triggered new interest in the happily retired star. Selling mainly in mainland Europe and the USA the zine ran until successfully 2005. A special large format issue ended the run. McMillan remains the best authority on John Steiner and has promised that his long awaited definitve work on the actors career will be with publishers soon. Steiner has recently contributed to DVD extras on some of his films and given interviews about his Italian work. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Steiner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Trenchard Voysey
The Voysey Inheritance
2014
6.0
Self
The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
2013
7.7
Self
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012
6.0
Self
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008
🎬
0.0
Self
My Roman Holiday With John Steiner
2007
7.1
Prince Ascanio Del Bardo
Paprika
1991
4.0
Jaffar
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
1989
4.4
Danilo
Massacre Play
1989
5.5
Zebra
Big Man
1988
5.5
British Police Inspector
Appuntamento a Liverpool
1988
Credits
The Voysey Inheritance
as Trenchard Voysey
2014
0.0
The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
as Self
2013
6.0
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
as Self
2012
7.7
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
as Self
2008
6.0
🎬
My Roman Holiday With John Steiner
as Self
2007
0.0
Paprika
as Prince Ascanio Del Bardo
1991
7.1
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
as Jaffar
1989
4.0
Massacre Play
as Danilo
1989
4.4
Big Man
as Zebra
1988
5.5
Appuntamento a Liverpool
as British Police Inspector
1988
5.5
The Commander
as Duclaud
1988
5.5
Night of the Sharks
as Rosentski
1988
2.9
Striker
as Kariasin
1988
4.3
Julia and Julia
as Alex
1988
4.9
Portami la luna
as Walfredo
1987
0.0
The Lone Runner
as Skorm
1986
4.6
Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
as Frederick, Fulvia's lover
1986
5.1
Body Count
as Dr. Olsen
1986
5.0
Cobra Mission
as James Walcott
1986
4.5
Troppo forte
as Mike Adams
1986
6.4
Commando Leopard
as Smithy
1985
6.1
The Berlin Affair
as Oskar Engelhart
1985
5.2
Cut and Run
as Vlado
1985
5.3
Un caso d'incoscienza
as Milton Tennyson
1985
0.0
A.D.
as Simon der Magier
1985
5.1
I due carabinieri
as Crazy man on the train
1984
6.1
The Ark of the Sun God
as Lord Dean
1984
5.5
Dagger Eyes
as Ivanov
1983
5.1
Yor, the Hunter from the Future
as Overlord
1983
4.3
The World of Yor
as Il Supremo
1983
0.0
Tenebre
as Christiano Berti
1982
6.8
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
as Captain David Franks
1982
5.3
Car Crash
as Kirby
1981
4.5
The Salamander
as Captain Roditi
1981
5.3
The Last Hunter
as Major William Cash
1980
5.4
The Little Archimedes
as Alfred
1980
7.0
Action
as The Manager
1980
4.4
Caligula
as Longinus
1979
6.0
Design for Living
as Leo
1979
1.0
Question of Love
as Tom Hastings
1978
6.4
Il prigioniero
1978
0.0
Goodbye & Amen
as Donald Grayson
1977
6.2
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
as Laurin
1977
6.6
Gangbusters
as Killer
1977
5.5
The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond
as Rudy
1977
6.8
A Man Called Blade
as Valler
1977
6.5
Shock
as Bruno Baldini
1977
6.3
Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer
as Schwein
1977
4.5
🎬
La Gabbia
as Il professore
1977
5.5
Deported Women of the SS Special Section
as Herr Erner
1976
4.5
Mark Strikes Again
as Paul Henkel
1976
4.2
Plot of Fear
as Hoffmann
1976
5.2
The Hornet's Nest
as Fisher
1976
6.4
Violent Milan
as Fausto
1976
6.8
Salon Kitty
as Biondo
1976
5.5
I Don't Want to Be Born
as Tommy Morris
1976
5.1
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
as Count Dragulescu
1975
5.7
Violent Rome
as Franco "Chiodo" Spadoni
1975
6.0
Waves of Lust
as Giorgio
1975
4.8
The Last Day of School Before Christmas
as Lieutenant
1975
0.0
Challenge to White Fang
as Beauty Smith / Charles Forth
1974
6.1
Occupations
as Terrini
1974
0.0
Morel's Invention
as Morel
1974
6.2
White Fang
as Charles 'Beauty' Smith
1973
6.4
Massacre in Rome
as SS-Standartenführer Eugen Dollmann
1973
6.0
The Police Serve the Citizens?
as Lambro
1973
6.6
🎬
The Professional
as Johnny
1973
0.0
Holidays
as Scagnetti
1973
7.0
Slap the Monster on Page One
as Ing. Montelli
1972
7.6
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
as Piro
1971
6.7
Hine
1971
0.0
Bali
as Glenn
1970
3.9
The Golden Ass
as Aristomene
1970
6.0
May Morning
as Roderick Rodney Stanton
1970
4.7
A Girl Called Jules
as Luciano
1970
6.3
The Ancines Woods
as Robert
1970
4.6
Twelve Plus One
as Stanley
1969
5.2
Department S
as Hershall
1969
5.0
Tepepa
as Doctor Henry Price
1969
6.6
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
as Anthony
1968
3.0
Bedazzled
as TV Announcer (uncredited)
1967
6.2
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Sanctuary
1967
5.0
Marat/Sade
as Monsieur Dupere
1967
6.1
BBC Play of the Month
as Trenchard Voysey
1965
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Leo
1965
5.0
The Saint
as Grey Wyler
1962
7.4