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