John Steiner

John Steiner

  • Birthday: 1941-01-07
  • Deathday: 2022-07-31
  • Place of birth: Chester, Cheshire, England, UK

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.

Filmography

Bali

1970

As Glenn

La Gabbia

1977

As Il professore

The Little Archimedes

1979

As Alfred

Shock

1977

As Bruno Baldini

Morel's Invention

1974

As Morel

A Man Called Blade

1977

As Valler

Appuntamento a Liverpool

1988

As British Police Inspector

Troppo forte

1986

As Mike Adams

Waves of Lust

1975

As Giorgio

Mark Strikes Again

1976

As Paul Henkel

Tepepa

1969

As Doctor Henry Price

A Girl Called Jules

1970

As Luciano

May Morning

1970

As Roderick Rodney Stanton

Striker

1987

As Kariasin

Design for Living

1979

As Leo

Salon Kitty

1976

As Biondo

The Night of the Sharks

1988

As Rosentski

Cobra Mission

1986

As James Walcott

White Fang

1973

As Charles 'Beauty' Smith

Work Is a 4-Letter Word

1968

As Anthony

Gangbusters

1977

As Killer

Dagger Eyes

1983

As Ivanov

Car Crash

1981

As Kirby

Holidays

1973

As Scagnetti

The Ancines Woods

1970

As Robert

Goodbye & Amen

1977

As Donald Grayson

The Golden Ass

1970

As Aristomene

The Lone Runner

1986

As Skorm

Plot of Fear

1976

As Hoffmann

Violent Milan

1976

As Fausto

Slap the Monster on Page One

1972

As Ingegner Montelli - Publisher of 'Il Giornale'

Violent City

1975

As Franco Spadoni 'Chiodo'

The Ark of the Sun God

1984

As Lord Dean

Commando Leopard

1985

As Smithy

Massacre in Rome

1973

As SS-Standartenführer Eugen Dollmann

The Hunters of the Golden Cobra

1982

As Captain David Franks

Julia and Julia

1988

As Alex

The Hornet's Nest

1976

As Fisher

The Last Hunter

1980

As Major William Cash

I Don't Want to Be Born

1976

As Tommy Morris

The Commander

1988

As Duclaud

Challenge to White Fang

1974

As Beauty Smith / Charles Forth

Question of Love

1978

As Tom Hastings

Occupations

1974

As Terrini

Action

1980

As The Manager

The Berlin Affair

1985

As Oskar Engelhart

The Salamander

1981

As Captain Roditi

Twelve Plus One

1969

As Stanley

Body Count

1986

As Dr. Olsen

Cut and Run

1985

As Vlado

Caligula

1979

As Longinus

I due carabinieri

1984

As Crazy man on the train

Tenebre

1982

As Christiano Berti

Marat/Sade

1967

As Monsieur Dupere

Paprika

1991

As Principe Ascanio Del Bardo

Bedazzled

1967

As TV Announcer (uncredited)

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