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John Steiner

Acting
Known For

81 Years Old

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.

Born

Chester, Cheshire, England, UK on 7th January 1941

Died

31st July 2022

All Credits

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