Name
John Steiner
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1941-01-07
Deathday
2022-07-31 (81 years old)
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.
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Known For
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- 1969 Twelve Plus One as Stanley
- 1991 Paprika as Prince Ascanio Del Bardo
- 1986 Too Much as Mike Adams
- 1985 Cut and Run as Vlado
- 1986 Body Count as Dr. Olsen
- 1979 Caligula as Longinus
- 1976 I Don't Want to Be Born as Tommy Morris
- 1976 Salon Kitty as Biondo
- 1975 Waves of Lust as Giorgio
- 1986 The Lone Runner as Skorm
- 2008 Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 as Self
- 1974 Morel's Invention as Morel
- 1976 Plot of Fear as Hoffmann
- 1989 Sinbad of the Seven Seas as Jaffar
- 1983 Yor: The Hunter from the Future as Overlord
- 1970 Bali as Glenn
- 1976 Violent Milan as Fausto
- 1988 Night of the Sharks as Rosentski
- 1972 Slap the Monster on Page One as Ing. Montelli
- 1976 Deported Women of the SS Special Section as Herr Erner
- 1986 Cobra Mission as James Walcott
- 1977 A Man Called Blade as Valler
- 1969 Tepepa as Doctor Henry Price
- 1976 Mark Strikes Again as Paul Henkel
- 1980 The Last Hunter as Major William Cash
- 1975 Violent Rome as Franco "Chiodo" Spadoni
- 1982 The Hunters of the Golden Cobra as Captain David Franks
- 2012 Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s as Self
- 1984 The Ark of the Sun God as Lord Dean
- 1985 Commando Leopard as Smithy
- 1988 The Commander as Duclaud
- 1988 Appuntamento a Liverpool as British Police Inspector
- 1970 May Morning as Roderick Rodney Stanton
- 1973 The Police Serve the Citizens? as Lambro
- 1988 Striker as Kariasin
- 1971 The Case Is Closed, Forget It as Piro
- 1970 The Ancines Woods as Robert
- 1973 White Fang as Charles 'Beauty' Smith
- 1968 Work Is a 4-Letter Word as Anthony
- 1970 A Girl Called Jules as Luciano
- 1973 Massacre in Rome as SS-Standartenführer Eugen Dollmann
- 1977 The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond as Rudy
- 1974 Challenge to White Fang as Beauty Smith / Charles Forth
- 1977 Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison as Laurin
- 1977 Gangbusters as Killer
- 1984 I due carabinieri as Crazy man on the train
- 1988 Julia and Julia as Alex
- 1980 Action as The Manager
- 1986 Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil as Frederick, Fulvia's lover
- 1977 Goodbye & Amen as Donald Grayson
- 1981 The Salamander as Captain Roditi
- 1983 Dagger Eyes as Ivanov
- 1985 The Berlin Affair as Oskar Engelhart
- 1977 La Gabbia as Il professore
- 1981 Car Crash as Kirby
- 1974 Occupations as Terrini
- 2013 The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti as Self
- 2007 My Roman Holiday With John Steiner as Self
- 1978 Il prigioniero
- 1976 The Hornet's Nest as Fisher
- 1973 The Professional as Johnny
- 1975 The Last Day of School Before Christmas as Lieutenant
- 1973 Holidays as Scagnetti
- 1975 Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza as Count Dragulescu
- 1970 The Golden Ass as Aristomene
- 1978 Question of Love as Tom Hastings
- 1977 Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer as Schwein
- 1979 Design for Living as Leo
- 1967 Bedazzled as TV Announcer (uncredited)
- 1980 The Little Archimedes as Alfred
- 1967 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 as Monsieur Dupere
- 1989 Massacre Play as Danilo
- 1982 Tenebre as Christiano Berti
- 1985 Un caso d'incoscienza as Milton Tennyson
- 2014 The Voysey Inheritance as Trenchard Voysey
- 1987 Portami la luna as Walfredo
- 1965 Alice
- 1977 Shock as Bruno Baldini
- 1969 Department S ( 1 episode ) as Hershall
- 1962 The Saint ( 1 episode ) as Grey Wyler
- 1967 Sanctuary ( 1 episode )
- 1971 Hine ( 13 episodes )
- 1985 A.D. ( 5 episodes ) as Simon der Magier
- 1988 Big Man ( 1 episode ) as Zebra
- 1965 BBC Play of the Month ( 1 episode ) as Trenchard Voysey
- 1965 BBC Play of the Month ( 1 episode ) as Leo
- 1983 The World of Yor ( 2 episodes ) as Il Supremo
- 1978 The Sandbaggers ( 1 episode ) as Trevor D'Arcy
- 1972 The Sextet ( 1 episode ) as Simon Tesco
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Gooch
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Nigel
