John Steiner
- Teen actor
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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Acted in
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut
2023
as Longinus
The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
2013
as Self
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012
as Self
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008
as Self
My Roman Holiday With John Steiner
2007
as Self
Paprika
1991
as Prince Ascanio Del Bardo
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
1989
as Jaffar
Massacre Play
1989
Big Man
1988
as Zebra
Appuntamento a Liverpool
1988
as British Police Inspector
The Commander
1988
as Duclaud
The Night of the Sharks
1988
as Rosentski
Striker
1988
as Kariasin
Julia and Julia
1988
as Alex
The Lone Runner
1986
as Skorm
Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
1986
as Frederick, Fulvia's lover
Body Count
1986
as Dr. Olsen
Cobra Mission
1986
as James Walcott
Troppo forte
1986
as Mike Adams
Commando Leopard
1985
as Smithy
The Berlin Affair
1985
as Oskar Engelhart
Cut and Run
1985
as Vlado
Un caso d'incoscienza
1985
as Milton Tennyson
A.D.
1985
as Simon der Magier
I due carabinieri
1984
as Crazy man on the train
The Ark of the Sun God
1984
as Lord Dean
Dagger Eyes
1983
as Ivanov
Yor, the Hunter from the Future
1983
as Overlord
The World of Yor
1983
as Il Supremo
Tenebre
1982
as Christiano Berti
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
1982
as Captain David Franks
Car Crash
1981
as Kirby
The Salamander
1981
as Captain Roditi
The Last Hunter
1980
as Major William Cash
Action
1980
as The Manager
Caligula
1979
as Longinus
The Little Archimedes
1979
as Alfred
Design for Living
1979
as Leo
Question of Love
1978
as Tom Hastings
Il prigioniero
1978
Goodbye & Amen
1977
as Donald Grayson
Gangbusters
1977
as Killer
The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond
1977
as Rudy
A Man Called Blade
1977
as Valler
Shock
1977
as Bruno Baldini
Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer
1977
as Schwein
La Gabbia
1977
as Il professore
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
1977
Deported Women of the SS Special Section
1976
as Herr Erner
Mark Strikes Again
1976
as Paul Henkel
Plot of Fear
1976
as Hoffmann
The Hornet's Nest
1976
as Fisher
Violent Milan
1976
as Fausto
Salon Kitty
1976
as Biondo
I Don't Want to Be Born
1976
as Tommy Morris
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
1975
as Count Dragulescu
Violent Rome
1975
as Franco "Chiodo" Spadoni
Waves of Lust
1975
as Giorgio
The Last Day of School Before Christmas
1975
Challenge to White Fang
1974
as Beauty Smith / Charles Forth
Occupations
1974
as Terrini
Morel's Invention
1974
as Morel
White Fang
1973
as Charles 'Beauty' Smith
Massacre in Rome
1973
as SS-Standartenführer Eugen Dollmann
The Police Serve the Citizens?
1973
as Lambro
The Professional
1973
as Johnny
Holidays
1973
as Scagnetti
Slap the Monster on Page One
1972
as Ing. Montelli
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
1971
as Piro
Hine
1971
Bali
1970
as Glenn
The Golden Ass
1970
as Aristomene
May Morning
1970
as Roderick Rodney Stanton
A Girl Called Jules
1970
as Luciano
The Ancines Woods
1970
as Robert
Twelve Plus One
1969
as Stanley
Department S
1969
as Hershall
Tepepa
1969
as Doctor Henry Price
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968
as Anthony
Bedazzled
1967
as TV Announcer (uncredited)
Sanctuary
1967
Marat/Sade
1967
as Monsieur Dupere
The Saint
1962
as Grey Wyler