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