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