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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John Steiner Biography / Wiki
| Name | John Steiner |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Chester, Cheshire, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1941-01-07 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 81 |
| Deathday |
John Steiner Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Bali | Glenn | 1970-12-29 | The wife of a European photographer on assignment in exotic Bali falls for an enigmatic ex patriot under the spell of a mystical death cult…… |
| La Gabbia | Il professore | 1977-04-06 | Based on the infamous Stanford prison experiment. In 1977, Italian director Carlo Tuzii adapted the experiment to an Italian environment. Italian stud… |
| Il prigioniero | 1978-01-01 | Italian TV movie. Based upon a novel by Anton Chekhov…. | |
| The Little Archimedes | Alfred | 1979-05-30 | The action takes place in Florence in the 1930s. Alfred, an Englishman who moved to that city in order to write a book on Giotto, meets a boy who is f… |
| Shock | Bruno Baldini | 1977-08-12 | A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman’s former husband who possesses her young son…. |
| Morel’s Invention | Morel | 1974-01-01 | A castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it’s uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a hidden room. Soon he sees some people walking, dressed w… |
| Sinbad of the Seven Seas | Jaffar | 1989-04-01 | Sinbad returns from the sea to find his country subjected to the will of two unscrupulous sorcerers…. |
| A Man Called Blade | Valler | 1977-08-13 | Maurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate future. But when he disrupts the balance of power… |
| Appuntamento a Liverpool | British Police Inspector | 1988-09-02 | Caterina’s father died before her eyes in the Heysel Stadium disaster. Years later, she’s summoned by British police to look at some possible suspects… |
| The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond | Rudy | 1977-08-23 | Returning from Switzerland to Rome, the boss prof. Salviati, called ‘The Prince’, finds his business compromised by Rudy, a small local bandit full of… |
| The Last Day of School Before Christmas | 1975-03-20 | Directed by Gian Vittorio Baldi… | |
| Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer | Schwein | 1977-08-05 | … |
| Waves of Lust | Giorgio | 1975-08-04 | A young couple become embroiled with the personal problems of another couple on a yacht moored off Sicily during a turbulent weekend of fun, games, se… |
| Deported Women of the SS Special Section | Herr Erner | 1976-11-23 | Young women in Nazi-occupied countries are packed onto a train and shipped off to a prison camp, where the sadistic commandant uses them as rewards fo… |
| Mark Strikes Again | Paul Henkel | 1976-10-20 | A murderous drug dealer breaks his partner out of police custody. An undercover cop is assigned to track down the two killers and bring them in…. |
| Tepepa | Doctor Henry Price | 1969-01-31 | The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro…. |
| The Police Serve the Citizens? | Lambro | 1973-01-01 | In Genoa, the Commissioner Sironi has identified the leader of the ferocious racket that controls the port activities. But the law restrains his actio… |
| A Girl Called Jules | Luciano | 1970-07-25 | After his Western triumphs, Valerii stepped out of the shadow of Sergio Leone with this distinctly Bergmanesque sexual melodrama.Dionisio is perfect i… |
| The Case Is Closed, Forget It | Piro | 1971-10-27 | Because of a violation of traffic regulations an architect is put in prison. There he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, c… |
| The Ancines Woods | Robert | 1970-04-19 | Benito Freire, a pedlar in a small village in northern Spain suffers from epileptic seizures and rumours start to spread that he may be a werewolf and… |
| May Morning | Roderick Rodney Stanton | 1970-08-02 | In a changing world a young Italian enrols at Oxford and finds i is him they are out to change…. |
| Striker | Kariasin | 1987-01-01 | John Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandinista prison in Nicaragua. He teams with Marta, a local woman, to carry out … |
| Design for Living | Leo | 1979-05-06 | Design for Living presents a trio of neurotic but intensely artistic characters: Gilda, Otto and Leo. Set in Paris, Otto and Leo both fall in love wit… |
| Troppo forte | Mr. Adams | 1986-01-30 | Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries … |
| Salon Kitty | Biondo | 1976-03-02 | Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to “relax”. Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army off… |
| The Night of the Sharks | Rosentski | 1988-04-01 | David must fight for his life against the gangsters who killed his brother for a CD filled with proof of their illegal activities. When David gets pos… |
| Cobra Mission | James Walcott | 1986-07-31 | Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held … |
| Work Is a 4-Letter Word | Anthony | 1968-09-15 | Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind wh… |
| White Fang | Charles ‘Beauty’ Smith | 1973-12-21 | The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime lor… |
| Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil | Frederick, Fulvia’s lover | 1986-10-31 | Mariangela Melato stars as Fulvia Bolk, a self-made tycoon interested in ecological preservation. She is fed up with the terrorists who are poaching I… |
| L’avvocato della mala | Killer | 1977-09-21 | Mario Gastaldi, a lawyer with no clients and no money, agrees to be a negotiator in a deal on stolen paintings, between the boss Peseti and the engine… |
| Mystère | Ivanov | 1983-11-28 | Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a poli… |
| Car Crash | Kirby | 1981-07-24 | When successful racer Nick, with friend and business manager Paul are threatened off the racing circuit they call in a favor from a stock car mechanic… |
| Holidays | Scagnetti | 1973-01-02 | Rossini, history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the oath of allegiance to the the fascist regime that Mus… |
| Goodbye & Amen | Donald Grayson | 1977-12-23 | As John Dhannay, a CIA agent stationed in Rome, plans the overthrow of an African government, he discovers one of his men has been in contact with age… |
| The Golden Ass | Aristomene | 1970-08-26 | In ancient Mauretania, the young Roman Lucius Apuleius and his friend Aristomene run into a series of misadventures…. |
| Massacre Play | 1989-01-01 | Film makers Clem Da Silva (Tomas Milian) and Theo Steiner (Elliott Gould) are childhood friends, although now estranged. While both are gifted and equ… | |
| The Lone Runner | Skorm | 1986-11-01 | The Summerking’s daughter has been kidnapped, and the legendary hero of the desert comes to her rescue as he did when she was young. The Lone Runner p… |
| Plot of Fear | Hoffmann | 1976-01-01 | Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. After two deaths occur Inspector Lomenzo … |
| Violent Milan | Fausto | 1976-03-05 | A gang of thieves decides to hit the headquarters of Aspex. The police intervened and only two of the robbers managed to escape with the loot, while t… |
| Slap the Monster on Page One | Ingegner Montelli – Publisher of ‘Il Giornale’ | 1972-10-19 | 1972, Milan. Just a few days before the general elections, a young girl from an esteemed family is raped and murdered. Bizanti, editor-in-chief of a c… |
| Violent City | Franco Spadoni ‘Chiodo’ | 1975-08-13 | A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the depa… |
| The Ark of the Sun God | Lord Dean | 1984-08-17 | A safecracker takes a job where he must go to Istanbul and steal a scepter that once belonged to the god Gilgamesh but is now in the temple of a secre… |
| Commando Leopard | Smithy | 1985-10-24 | A cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are present every day. A few people begin to organise resistance… |
| Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison | 1977-02-06 | Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of his political career and private life…. | |
| Massacre in Rome | SS-Standartenführer Eugen Dollmann | 1973-10-24 | In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. “Massacre in Rome” is the true story of… |
| Yor, the Hunter from the Future | Overlord | 1983-08-19 | In prehistoric times, the muscular Yor saves his cave-babe from a dinosaur just before they get zapped into the future to battle bad guys in the famil… |
| The Hunters of the Golden Cobra | Captain David Franks | 1982-08-11 | An American soldier and a British intelligence agent try to track down an ancient relic called the Golden Cobra, rumored to have supernatural powers. … |
| Julia and Julia | Alex | 1987-01-01 | Giulia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day…. |
| The Hornet’s Nest | Fisher | 1976-03-10 | A compulsive gambler must steal a suitcase full of money, which is also coveted by Melba, a cabaret singer. A getaway ensues…. |
| The Demonic Womanizer Costante Nicosia, or: Dracula in Brianza | Count Dragulescu | 1975-08-21 | A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his head… |
| The Last Hunter | Major William Cash | 1980-08-09 | During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped beind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies sets out to rescue him…. |
| I Don’t Want to Be Born | Tommy Morris | 1975-01-01 | A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother onc… |
| The Commander | Duclaud | 1988-04-28 | Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is unusually good including Lee Van Cleef, Brett Halsey… |
| Challenge to White Fang | Beauty Smith / Charles Forth | 1974-10-25 | Sequel to Lucio Fulci’s first ‘White Fang’ has the wolf-dog once again trying to stop the villainous Beauty Smith from claiming a recently discovered … |
| Question of Love | Tom Hastings | 1978-10-18 | Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspect his young Swedish wife Catherine and her English lover Tom… |
| Action | The Manager | 1980-01-04 | Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is… |
| Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s | Self | 2012-03-30 | A documentary concerning the violent Italian ‘poliziotteschi’ cinematic movement of the 1970s which, at first glance, seem to be rip-offs of American … |
| The Berlin Affair | Oskar Engelhart | 1985-10-03 | In 1938 Berlin, Gudrun Landgrebe, wife of Nazi functionary Kevin McNally, begins taking art lessons. She makes the acquaintance of another student, Ja… |
| The Salamander | Captain Roditi | 1981-01-01 | An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a sala… |
| Twelve Plus One | Stanley | 1969-10-07 | Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he get… |
| Body Count | Dr. Olsen | 1986-10-28 | A bodybuilder, a junk-food addict and a wild blonde nymph and their friends are stalked by a terrifying figure. An horrific tale of murder as a fun-lo… |
| Cut and Run | Vlado | 1985-08-08 | A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec’s missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massa… |
| Caligula | Longinus | 1979-08-14 | The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome’s mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His un… |
| I due carabinieri | Crazy man on the train | 1984-12-21 | Two deadbeat friends barely pass the entrance exam for the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, but love for the same woman gets in the way… |
| Tenebre | Christiano Berti | 1982-10-28 | An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book…. |
| Marat/Sade | Monsieur Dupere | 1967-02-22 | In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat’s death, using the patients as actors. Based on ‘The Persecution and Ass… |
| Paprika | Principe Ascanio Del Bardo | 1991-02-13 | A young country girl comes to town and works in a brothel in order to help her fiance get the money to start his own business. “Paprika” is the name g… |
| The Outsider – The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti | Himself | 2013-04-17 | Documentary on the life and films of Antonio Margheriti…. |
| Bedazzled | TV Announcer (uncredited) | 1967-10-30 | Stanley is infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque waitress who works with him. He meets George Spiggott AKA the devil and sells his soul for 7 wishe… |
| Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered – Volume 1 | Self | 2008-03-06 | This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answ… |
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