John Steiner
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
All Movies (78)
- The Voysey Inheritance2014 · as Trenchard Voysey
- The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti2013 · as Self
- Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s2012 · as Self
- Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 12008 · as Self
- My Roman Holiday With John Steiner2007 · as Self
- Paprika1991 · as Prince Ascanio Del Bardo
- Sinbad of the Seven Seas1989 · as Jaffar
- Massacre Play1989 · as Danilo
- Appuntamento a Liverpool1988 · as British Police Inspector
- The Commander1988 · as Duclaud
- Night of the Sharks1988 · as Rosentski
- Striker1988 · as Kariasin
- Julia and Julia1988 · as Alex
- Portami la luna1987 · as Walfredo
- The Lone Runner1986 · as Skorm
- Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil1986 · as Frederick, Fulvia's lover
- Body Count1986 · as Dr. Olsen
- Cobra Mission1986 · as James Walcott
- Too Much1986 · as Mike Adams
- Commando Leopard1985 · as Smithy
- The Berlin Affair1985 · as Oskar Engelhart
- Cut and Run1985 · as Vlado
- Un caso d'incoscienza1985 · as Milton Tennyson
- I due carabinieri1984 · as Crazy man on the train
- The Ark of the Sun God1984 · as Lord Dean
- Dagger Eyes1983 · as Ivanov
- Yor: The Hunter from the Future1983 · as Overlord
- Tenebre1982 · as Christiano Berti
- The Hunters of the Golden Cobra1982 · as Captain David Franks
- Car Crash1981 · as Kirby
- The Salamander1981 · as Captain Roditi
- The Last Hunter1980 · as Major William Cash
- The Little Archimedes1980 · as Alfred
- Action1980 · as The Manager
- Caligula1979 · as Longinus
- Design for Living1979 · as Leo
- Question of Love1978 · as Tom Hastings
- Il prigioniero1978
- Goodbye & Amen1977 · as Donald Grayson
- Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison1977 · as Laurin
- Gangbusters1977 · as Killer
- The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond1977 · as Rudy
- A Man Called Blade1977 · as Valler
- Shock1977 · as Bruno Baldini
- Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer1977 · as Schwein
- La Gabbia1977 · as Il professore
- Deported Women of the SS Special Section1976 · as Herr Erner
- Mark Strikes Again1976 · as Paul Henkel
- Plot of Fear1976 · as Hoffmann
- The Hornet's Nest1976 · as Fisher
- Violent Milan1976 · as Fausto
- Salon Kitty1976 · as Biondo
- I Don't Want to Be Born1976 · as Tommy Morris
- Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza1975 · as Count Dragulescu
- Violent Rome1975 · as Franco "Chiodo" Spadoni
- Waves of Lust1975 · as Giorgio
- The Last Day of School Before Christmas1975 · as Lieutenant
- Challenge to White Fang1974 · as Beauty Smith / Charles Forth
- Occupations1974 · as Terrini
- Morel's Invention1974 · as Morel
- White Fang1973 · as Charles 'Beauty' Smith
- Massacre in Rome1973 · as SS-Standartenführer Eugen Dollmann
- The Police Serve the Citizens?1973 · as Lambro
- The Professional1973 · as Johnny
- Holidays1973 · as Scagnetti
- Slap the Monster on Page One1972 · as Ing. Montelli
- The Case Is Closed, Forget It1971 · as Piro
- Bali1970 · as Glenn
- The Golden Ass1970 · as Aristomene
- May Morning1970 · as Roderick Rodney Stanton
- A Girl Called Jules1970 · as Luciano
- The Ancines Woods1970 · as Robert
- Twelve Plus One1969 · as Stanley
- Tepepa1969 · as Doctor Henry Price
- Work Is a 4-Letter Word1968 · as Anthony
- Bedazzled1967 · 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 Sade1967 · as Monsieur Dupere
- Alice1965
All TV Shows (13)
- Big Man1988 · as Zebra
- A.D.1985 · as Simon der Magier
- The World of Yor1983 · as Il Supremo
- The Sandbaggers1978 · as Trevor D'Arcy
- The Sextet1972 · as Simon Tesco
- Hine1971
- Department S1969 · as Hershall
- Sanctuary1967
- BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Trenchard Voysey
- BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Leo
- The Saint1962 · as Grey Wyler
- Armchair Theatre1956 · as Gooch
- Armchair Theatre1956 · as Nigel