John Steiner
Known for Acting · 89 credits
- Born
- 1941-01-07
- Died
- 2022-07-31
- Place of birth
- Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
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.
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Known For
TV Shows (11)
The Saint
1962
as Grey Wyler
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Trenchard Voysey / Leo
Department S
1969
as Hershall
A.D.
1985
as Simon der Magier
The Sandbaggers
1978
as Trevor D'Arcy
Big Man
1988
as Zebra
The Sextet
1972
as Simon Tesco
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Gooch / Nigel
Sanctuary
1967
Hine
1971
The World of Yor
1983
as Il Supremo
Movies (78)
Caligula
1979
as Longinus
Salon Kitty
1976
as Biondo
Paprika
1991
as Prince Ascanio Del Bardo
Dagger Eyes
1983
as Ivanov
Tenebre
1982
as Christiano Berti
Action
1980
as The Manager
Cobra Mission
1986
as James Walcott
Shock
1977
as Bruno Baldini
Cut and Run
1985
as Vlado
Bedazzled
1967
as TV Announcer (uncredited)
Waves of Lust
1975
as Giorgio
Commando Leopard
1985
as Smithy
A Man Called Blade
1977
as Valler
Deported Women of the SS Special Section
1976
as Herr Erner
The Last Hunter
1980
as Major William Cash
The Salamander
1981
as Captain Roditi
White Fang
1973
as Charles 'Beauty' Smith
Julia and Julia
1988
as Alex
Tepepa
1969
as Doctor Henry Price
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
1989
as Jaffar
Massacre in Rome
1973
as SS-Standartenführer Eugen Dollmann
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
1982
as Captain David Franks
Holidays
1973
as Scagnetti
Too Much
1986
as Mike Adams
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012
as Self
Violent Milan
1976
as Fausto
Twelve Plus One
1969
as Stanley
The Commander
1988
as Duclaud
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
1977
as Laurin
The Berlin Affair
1985
as Oskar Engelhart
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 Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
2013
as Self
Plot of Fear
1976
as Hoffmann
The Ark of the Sun God
1984
as Lord Dean
Yor: The Hunter from the Future
1983
as Overlord
Challenge to White Fang
1974
as Beauty Smith / Charles Forth
Alice
1965
Slap the Monster on Page One
1972
as Ing. Montelli
Striker
1988
as Kariasin
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
1975
as Count Dragulescu
Body Count
1986
as Dr. Olsen
I due carabinieri
1984
as Crazy man on the train
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
1971
as Piro
Massacre Play
1989
as Danilo
May Morning
1970
as Roderick Rodney Stanton
Mark Strikes Again
1976
as Paul Henkel
Bali
1970
as Glenn
Goodbye & Amen
1977
as Donald Grayson
Car Crash
1981
as Kirby
Violent Rome
1975
as Franco "Chiodo" Spadoni
Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
1986
as Frederick, Fulvia's lover
Gangbusters
1977
as Killer
Occupations
1974
as Terrini
The Lone Runner
1986
as Skorm
The Ancines Woods
1970
as Robert
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968
as Anthony
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008
as Self
Night of the Sharks
1988
as Rosentski
I Don't Want to Be Born
1976
as Tommy Morris
The Hornet's Nest
1976
as Fisher
The Police Serve the Citizens?
1973
as Lambro
La Gabbia
1977
as Il professore
The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond
1977
as Rudy
My Roman Holiday With John Steiner
2007
as Self
A Girl Called Jules
1970
as Luciano
The Professional
1973
as Johnny
Appuntamento a Liverpool
1988
as British Police Inspector
Il prigioniero
1978
The Golden Ass
1970
as Aristomene
Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer
1977
as Schwein
The Little Archimedes
1980
as Alfred
Question of Love
1978
as Tom Hastings
The Last Day of School Before Christmas
1975
as Lieutenant
Un caso d'incoscienza
1985
as Milton Tennyson
Morel's Invention
1974
as Morel
The Voysey Inheritance
2014
as Trenchard Voysey
Design for Living
1979
as Leo
Portami la luna
1987
as Walfredo
About 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 exploita… With 89 credits spanning from 1956 to 2014, John Steiner has appeared in 78 films and 11 TV shows.
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- Caligula (1979) — as Longinus
- Salon Kitty (1976) — as Biondo
- Paprika (1991) — as Prince Ascanio Del Bardo
- Dagger Eyes (1983) — as Ivanov
- Tenebre (1982) — as Christiano Berti
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