John Steiner

Acting · 0.9 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: January 7, 1941 – July 31, 2022
From: 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Steiner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

78 films

Caligula

19796.0

Salon Kitty

19765.6

Tenebre

19826.8

Tepepa

19696.5

Paprika

19917.2

Action

19804.6

Occupations

1974

Shock

19776.3

The Salamander

19815.5

Dagger Eyes

19835.1

The Hunters of the Golden Cobra

19825.4

Too Much

19866.5

The Berlin Affair

19855.3

White Fang

19736.3

The Last Hunter

19805.5

May Morning

19705.3

Body Count

19865.1

Bedazzled

19676.2

Yor: The Hunter from the Future

19834.3

Waves of Lust

19754.9

Julia and Julia

19885.1

Massacre in Rome

19736.3

Challenge to White Fang

19746.2

Cut and Run

19855.3

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

19676.1