John Steiner

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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Filmography (88 Appearances)

The Voysey Inheritance

2014

The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti

2013

Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s

2012

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

2008

My Roman Holiday With John Steiner

2007

Paprika

1991

Sinbad of the Seven Seas

1989

Massacre Play

1989

Big Man

1988

Appuntamento a Liverpool

1988

The Commander

1988

Night of the Sharks

1988

Striker

1988

Julia and Julia

1988

Portami la luna

1987

The Lone Runner

1986

Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil

1986

Body Count

1986

Cobra Mission

1986

Too Much

1986

Commando Leopard

1985

The Berlin Affair

1985

Cut and Run

1985

Un caso d'incoscienza

1985

A.D.

1985

I due carabinieri

1984

The Ark of the Sun God

1984

Dagger Eyes

1983

Yor: The Hunter from the Future

1983

The World of Yor

1983

Tenebre

1982

The Hunters of the Golden Cobra

1982

Car Crash

1981

The Salamander

1981

The Last Hunter

1980

The Little Archimedes

1980

Action

1980

Caligula

1979

Design for Living

1979

Question of Love

1978

The Sandbaggers

1978

Il prigioniero

1978

Goodbye & Amen

1977

Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison

1977

Gangbusters

1977

The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond

1977

A Man Called Blade

1977

Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer

1977

La Gabbia

1977

Deported Women of the SS Special Section

1976

Mark Strikes Again

1976

Plot of Fear

1976

The Hornet's Nest

1976

Violent Milan

1976

Salon Kitty

1976

I Don't Want to Be Born

1976

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

1975

Violent Rome

1975

Waves of Lust

1975

The Last Day of School Before Christmas

1975

Challenge to White Fang

1974

Occupations

1974

Morel's Invention

1974

White Fang

1973

Massacre in Rome

1973

The Police Serve the Citizens?

1973

The Professional

1973

Holidays

1973

Slap the Monster on Page One

1972

The Sextet

1972

The Case Is Closed, Forget It

1971

Hine

1971

Bali

1970

The Golden Ass

1970

May Morning

1970

A Girl Called Jules

1970

The Ancines Woods

1970

Twelve Plus One

1969

Department S

1969

Tepepa

1969

Work Is a 4-Letter Word

1968

Bedazzled

1967

Sanctuary

1967

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

1967

BBC Play of the Month

1965

Alice

1965 Debut

The Saint

1962

Armchair Theatre

1956
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