John Steiner
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 7, 1941
- Died
- Jul 31, 2022 (aged 81)
- Place of birth
- Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
- Credits
- 89
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
Caligula
1979Movie
Longinus
Tenebre
1982Movie
Christiano Berti
Paprika
1991Movie
Prince Ascanio Del Bardo
Too Much
1986Movie
Mike Adams
Slap the Monster on Page One
1972Movie
Ing. Montelli
Bedazzled
1967Movie
TV Announcer (uncredited)
Filmography
The Voysey Inheritance
2014Movie
Trenchard Voysey
The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
2013Movie
Self
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012Movie
Self
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008Movie
Self
My Roman Holiday with John Steiner
2007Movie
Self
Paprika
1991Movie
Prince Ascanio Del Bardo
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
1989Movie
Jaffar
Massacre Play
1989Movie
Danilo
Big Man
1988TV
Zebra
Appuntamento a Liverpool
1988Movie
British Police Inspector
The Commander
1988Movie
Duclaud
Night of the Sharks
1988Movie
Rosentski
Striker
1988Movie
Kariasin
Julia and Julia
1988Movie
Alex
Portami la luna
1987Movie
Walfredo
The Lone Runner
1986Movie
Skorm
Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
1986Movie
Frederick, Fulvia's lover
Body Count
1986Movie
Dr. Olsen
Cobra Mission
1986Movie
James Walcott
Too Much
1986Movie
Mike Adams
Commando Leopard
1985Movie
Smithy
The Berlin Affair
1985Movie
Oskar Engelhart
Cut and Run
1985Movie
Vlado
Un caso d'incoscienza
1985Movie
Milton Tennyson
A.D.
1985TV
Simon der Magier
I due carabinieri
1984Movie
Crazy man on the train
The Ark of the Sun God
1984Movie
Lord Dean
Dagger Eyes
1983Movie
Ivanov
Yor: The Hunter from the Future
1983Movie
Overlord
The World of Yor
1983TV
Il Supremo
Tenebre
1982Movie
Christiano Berti
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
1982Movie
Captain David Franks
Car Crash
1981Movie
Kirby
The Salamander
1981Movie
Captain Roditi
The Last Hunter
1980Movie
Major William Cash
The Little Archimedes
1980Movie
Alfred
Action
1980Movie
The Manager
Caligula
1979Movie
Longinus
Design for Living
1979Movie
Leo
Question of Love
1978Movie
Tom Hastings
The Sandbaggers
1978TV
Trevor D'Arcy
Il prigioniero
1978Movie
Goodbye & Amen
1977Movie
Donald Grayson
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
1977Movie
Laurin
Gangbusters
1977Movie
Killer
The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond
1977Movie
Rudy
A Man Called Blade
1977Movie
Valler
Shock
1977Movie
Bruno Baldini
Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer
1977Movie
Schwein
La Gabbia
1977Movie
Il professore
Deported Women of the SS Special Section
1976Movie
Herr Erner
Mark Strikes Again
1976Movie
Paul Henkel
Plot of Fear
1976Movie
Hoffmann
The Hornet's Nest
1976Movie
Fisher
Violent Milan
1976Movie
Fausto
Salon Kitty
1976Movie
Biondo
I Don't Want to Be Born
1976Movie
Tommy Morris
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
1975Movie
Count Dragulescu
Violent Rome
1975Movie
Franco "Chiodo" Spadoni
Waves of Lust
1975Movie
Giorgio
The Last Day of School Before Christmas
1975Movie
Lieutenant
Challenge to White Fang
1974Movie
Beauty Smith / Charles Forth
Occupations
1974Movie
Terrini
Morel's Invention
1974Movie
Morel
White Fang
1973Movie
Charles 'Beauty' Smith
Massacre in Rome
1973Movie
SS-Standartenführer Eugen Dollmann
The Police Serve the Citizens?
1973Movie
Lambro
The Professional
1973Movie
Johnny
Holidays
1973Movie
Scagnetti
Slap the Monster on Page One
1972Movie
Ing. Montelli
The Sextet
1972TV
Simon Tesco
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
1971Movie
Piro
Hine
1971TV
Bali
1970Movie
Glenn
The Golden Ass
1970Movie
Aristomene
May Morning
1970Movie
Roderick Rodney Stanton
A Girl Called Jules
1970Movie
Luciano
The Ancines Woods
1970Movie
Robert
Twelve Plus One
1969Movie
Stanley
Department S
1969TV
Hershall
Tepepa
1969Movie
Doctor Henry Price
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968Movie
Anthony
Bedazzled
1967Movie
TV Announcer (uncredited)
Sanctuary
1967TV
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
1967Movie
Monsieur Dupere
BBC Play of the Month
1965TV
Trenchard Voysey, Leo
Alice
1965Movie
The Saint
1962TV
Grey Wyler
Armchair Theatre
1956TV
Gooch, Nigel