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