Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 07, 1941
Died
Jul 31, 2022
Place of Birth
Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
Credits
89 titles
John Steiner
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Voysey Inheritance
Trenchard Voysey
The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
Self
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
Self
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Self
My Roman Holiday With John Steiner
Self
Paprika
Prince Ascanio Del Bardo
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
Jaffar
Massacre Play
Danilo
Big Man
Zebra
Appuntamento a Liverpool
British Police Inspector
The Commander
Duclaud
Night of the Sharks
Rosentski
Striker
Kariasin
Julia and Julia
Alex
Portami la luna
Walfredo
The Lone Runner
Skorm
Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
Frederick, Fulvia's lover
Body Count
Dr. Olsen
Cobra Mission
James Walcott
Too Much
Mike Adams
Commando Leopard
Smithy
The Berlin Affair
Oskar Engelhart
Cut and Run
Vlado
Un caso d'incoscienza
Milton Tennyson
A.D.
Simon der Magier
I due carabinieri
Crazy man on the train
The Ark of the Sun God
Lord Dean
Dagger Eyes
Ivanov
Yor: The Hunter from the Future
Overlord
The World of Yor
Il Supremo
Tenebre
Christiano Berti
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
Captain David Franks
Car Crash
Kirby
The Salamander
Captain Roditi
The Last Hunter
Major William Cash
The Little Archimedes
Alfred
Action
The Manager
Caligula
Longinus
Design for Living
Leo
Question of Love
Tom Hastings
The Sandbaggers
Trevor D'Arcy
Il prigioniero
Goodbye & Amen
Donald Grayson
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Laurin
Gangbusters
Killer
The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond
Rudy
A Man Called Blade
Valler
Shock
Bruno Baldini
Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer
Schwein
La Gabbia
Il professore