John Steiner
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 7, 1941
- Died
- July 31, 2022
- Birthplace
- Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography
The Voysey Inheritance 2014
as Trenchard Voysey
The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti 2013
as Self
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s 2012
as Self
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 2008
as Self
- My Roman Holiday with John Steiner
My Roman Holiday with John Steiner 2007
as Self
Paprika 1991
as Prince Ascanio Del Bardo
Sinbad of the Seven Seas 1989
as Jaffar
Massacre Play 1989
as Danilo
Appuntamento a Liverpool 1988
as British Police Inspector
The Commander 1988
as Duclaud
Night of the Sharks 1988
as Rosentski
Striker 1988
as Kariasin
Julia and Julia 1988
as Alex
Portami la luna 1987
as Walfredo
The Lone Runner 1986
as Skorm
Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil 1986
as Frederick, Fulvia's lover
Body Count 1986
as Dr. Olsen
Cobra Mission 1986
as James Walcott
Too Much 1986
as Mike Adams
Commando Leopard 1985
as Smithy
The Berlin Affair 1985
as Oskar Engelhart
Cut and Run 1985
as Vlado
Un caso d'incoscienza 1985
as Milton Tennyson
I due carabinieri 1984
as Crazy man on the train
The Ark of the Sun God 1984
as Lord Dean
Dagger Eyes 1983
as Ivanov
Yor: The Hunter from the Future 1983
as Overlord
Tenebre 1982
as Christiano Berti
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra 1982
as Captain David Franks
Car Crash 1981
as Kirby
The Salamander 1981
as Captain Roditi
The Last Hunter 1980
as Major William Cash
The Little Archimedes 1980
as Alfred
Action 1980
as The Manager
Caligula 1979
as Longinus
Design for Living 1979
as Leo
Question of Love 1978
as Tom Hastings
Il prigioniero 1978
Actor
Goodbye & Amen 1977
as Donald Grayson
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison 1977
as Laurin
Gangbusters 1977
as Killer
The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond 1977
as Rudy
A Man Called Blade 1977
as Valler
Shock 1977
as Bruno Baldini
Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer 1977
as Schwein
- La Gabbia
La Gabbia 1977
as Il professore
Deported Women of the SS Special Section 1976
as Herr Erner
Mark Strikes Again 1976
as Paul Henkel
Plot of Fear 1976
as Hoffmann
The Hornet's Nest 1976
as Fisher
Violent Milan 1976
as Fausto
Salon Kitty 1976
as Biondo
I Don't Want to Be Born 1976
as Tommy Morris
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza 1975
as Count Dragulescu
Violent Rome 1975
as Franco "Chiodo" Spadoni
Waves of Lust 1975
as Giorgio
The Last Day of School Before Christmas 1975
as Lieutenant
Challenge to White Fang 1974
as Beauty Smith / Charles Forth
Occupations 1974
as Terrini
Morel's Invention 1974
as Morel
White Fang 1973
as Charles 'Beauty' Smith
Massacre in Rome 1973
as SS-Standartenführer Eugen Dollmann
The Police Serve the Citizens? 1973
as Lambro
- The Professional
The Professional 1973
as Johnny
Holidays 1973
as Scagnetti
Slap the Monster on Page One 1972
as Ing. Montelli
The Case Is Closed, Forget It 1971
as Piro
Bali 1970
as Glenn
The Golden Ass 1970
as Aristomene
May Morning 1970
as Roderick Rodney Stanton
A Girl Called Jules 1970
as Luciano
The Ancines Woods 1970
as Robert
Twelve Plus One 1969
as Stanley
Tepepa 1969
as Doctor Henry Price
Work Is a 4-Letter Word 1968
as Anthony
Bedazzled 1967
as TV Announcer (uncredited)
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade 1967
as Monsieur Dupere
Alice 1965
Actor
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