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John Steiner

Known for: Acting

Born 07/01/1941

Died 2022-07-31

Place of birth 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

Series ★ 5,3

BBC Play of the Month

Trenchard Voysey

1965

Series ★ 5,3

BBC Play of the Month

Leo

1965

Series ★ 7,4

The Saint

Grey Wyler

1962

Film ★ 6,0

Caligula

Longinus

1979

Series ★ 5,3

Department S

Hershall

1969

Series ★ 5,4

A.D.

Simon der Magier

1985

Film ★ 5,6

Salon Kitty

Biondo

1976

Series ★ 8,3

The Sandbaggers

Trevor D'Arcy

1978

Film ★ 7,2

Paprika

Prince Ascanio Del Bardo

1991

Series ★ 5,5

Big Man

Zebra

1988

Film ★ 5,1

Dagger Eyes

Ivanov

1983

Series ★ 10,0

The Sextet

Simon Tesco

1972

Film ★ 5,4

Cut and Run

Vlado

1985

Series ★ 6,0

Armchair Theatre

Gooch

1956

Series ★ 6,0

Armchair Theatre

Nigel

1956

Film ★ 6,8

Tenebre

Christiano Berti

1982

Series ★ 6,0

Sanctuary

1967

Film ★ 4,6

Action

The Manager

1980

Film ★ 4,9

Waves of Lust

Giorgio

1975

Film ★ 6,3

Shock

Bruno Baldini

1977

Film ★ 6,6

A Man Called Blade

Valler

1977

Film ★ 4,9

Cobra Mission

James Walcott

1986

Film ★ 6,4

Too Much

Mike Adams

1986

Film ★ 6,2

Bedazzled

TV Announcer (uncredited)

1967

Film ★ 4,7

Deported Women of the SS Special Section

Herr Erner

1976

Film ★ 5,5

The Last Hunter

Major William Cash

1980

Film ★ 5,4

The Hunters of the Golden Cobra

Captain David Franks

1982

Film ★ 7,0

Violent Milan

Fausto

1976

Film ★ 6,3

White Fang

Charles 'Beauty' Smith

1973

Film ★ 6,5

Tepepa

Doctor Henry Price

1969

Film ★ 5,6

The Commander

Duclaud

1988

Film ★ 5,3

The Berlin Affair

Oskar Engelhart

1985

Film ★ 5,1

Julia and Julia

Alex

1988

Series

Hine

1971

Film ★ 4,1

Sinbad of the Seven Seas

Jaffar

1989

Film ★ 5,5

The Salamander

Captain Roditi

1981

Film ★ 6,2

Commando Leopard

Smithy

1985

Film ★ 5,3

The Ark of the Sun God

Lord Dean

1984

Film ★ 7,0

Holidays

Scagnetti

1973

Film ★ 5,3

Twelve Plus One

Stanley

1969

Film ★ 5,1

Body Count

Dr. Olsen

1986

Series ★ 5,0

The World of Yor

Il Supremo

1983

Film ★ 6,2

Challenge to White Fang

Beauty Smith / Charles Forth

1974

Film ★ 6,3

Massacre in Rome

SS-Standartenführer Eugen Dollmann

1973

Film ★ 4,3

Yor: The Hunter from the Future

Overlord

1983

Film ★ 5,6

Plot of Fear

Hoffmann

1976

Film ★ 7,7

Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s

Self

2012

Film ★ 5,2

I Don't Want to Be Born

Tommy Morris

1976

Film ★ 6,1

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

Monsieur Dupere

1967