Date of birth: 1870-08-08
Place of birth: Essen, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as: John C. Steppling

John Steppling (8 August 1870 in Essen, Germany – 5 April 1932 in Hollywood, California) was a German-American silent film actor. He moved to America at a young age and entered film in 1912 aged 42. He starred in a total of 230 films between then and 1928, beginning with one of the first feature films ever made, Tess of the d'Urbervilles. He is also credited with directing 7 films. He is the grandfather of playwright John Steppling.

1918-11-01
Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morg

1925-09-12
Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his w

1916-11-30
All of the navy men in a California port town have fallen in love with Jackie Holbrook, except for C

1920-04-11
A poverty-stricken Cockney girl rises through incredible adventures to become the wife of a nobleman

1922-11-12
Stratton's café is a popular place with the people of Cottonia, a wealthy cotton town on the banks o

1926-03-14
Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In searc

1919-10-01
Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensat
1914-06-15
At the palatial home of a merchant the latter's wife entertains her husband's friends. The guests ha

1922-03-06
When a wealthy young lady loses her inheritance, she decides to apply for work in disguise. In prim

1917-02-19
After an argument with his father, in which he is accused of stealing, Bill Carmody leaves home. His

1932-01-24
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, lik

1924-10-25
Roxbury asks his friend Terry to assume his identity and go on vacation with his wife, Edith, and th
2007-01-01
What connected Harry and Scarlet when the mysterious Cadillac appeared in the rearview mirror? A sto
1924-12-07
When her British parents are killed when an Arabian desert bandit launches an attack on their encamp

1920-01-01
Millionaire Kent Whitney is warned by Bob Harkness, one of her rejected suitors, about the ficklenes

1915-12-07
Short comedy about a janitor at a bank that pretends to be a director in order to impress a girl.
1916-05-31
The gases left in the wake of a comet that passed by earth have the effect of making everyone on the

1923-01-19
Harry Elrod takes a job as a bellboy when he is disinherited by his uncle and fails in his efforts t

1920-09-05
"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unle

1921-06-01
After serving in the Great War, international crook Anthony Trent resolves to go straight. He wants

1918-09-14
A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army re

1913-09-01
A peasant girl sent to make a claim on her family's ancestral home in England's Wessex is seduced an

1923-10-31
The no-good son of a company owner is sent to investigate a problematic business deal.

1918-06-20
Mrs. Richard is happily married, but still agrees to pose as the wife of a businessman to hoodwink t

1923-09-30
Going Up (1923)

1918-12-10
Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she a

1917-11-02
Bathtub movers on the job.

1926-02-01
Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Pro

1920-10-01
Jane Goring, a ruthlessly ambitious actress, forsakes her life as a wife and mother for the stage. R

1920-12-06
Princess Triloff, an emigrée from Czarist Russia, escapes to America where she becomes a patron of t

1925-01-01
Sheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith O’Day,

1921-01-01
Anna Sewell's "autobiography" of a horse named Black Beauty is here expanded to include the adventur

1926-06-06
Lord Hugh Wainwright is a Britisher who, on his way to his California ranch, rescues pretty American

1924-08-16
Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is

1919-11-19
Country girl Annabel Lee has big dreams of being a famous artist. Her widowed mother encourages her

1923-05-28
The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge o

1921-04-17
Because of the circumstances of her parents' marriage her grandfather rejects their child, Mary. Fol

1920-06-27
When showing a woman customer some ranch property, real estate agent John Weems's car is disabled by

1913-11-10
A lost film. A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous

1925-07-06
Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impov

1924-02-02
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the America

1928-03-03
Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums.

1913-03-04
John Steppling is Billy McGrath in this popular series directed by Archer McMackin, of which this is

1924-03-10
Freddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her new

1923-01-28
A novelist's success causes a rift between her and her rancher husband.

1924-02-03
Unwilling to arrest Billy Carson, a crook who once befriended him, Officer Quinn forces him and Dan,

1913-09-10
A lost film. A successful stage actress with a hidden past as a criminal is kept on the path of righ

1922-04-09
Through sheer bluff Rodney Marvin ( Edward Everett Horton ) gets a job on a newspaper; becomes edito
1915-08-25
Insurance adjuster John Smith leaves for a nearby town to adjust a loss. He tells Mrs. Smith that he
1915-08-16
Roy Norman and Marie Thompson are betrothed. However, a friend of Roy's, Allan Boyd, arrives and he
1915-08-11
1915-08-02
The intrepid Detective Blinn investigates a series of baffling jewel thefts targeting wealthy women.
1915-07-28
Discovering the day before her marriage that her fiancé is already married Violet Day has a breakdow
1915-07-21
Young Beth Manners ekes out a living painting china. One day she finds a shoe that had been lost by
1915-07-12
After Outlaw Slippery Joe robs a miner and his daughter, a sheriff pursues him. While on the outlaw’
1915-07-07
Ethel Dunne and Jack Blakeney are sweethearts, despite the objections of Ethel's father. Mr. Dunne h
1915-06-28
Chester Rowe commits a robbery and murder, then flees to the mountains where he meets and falls in l
1915-06-14
Young Mary Lehner is deceived and abandoned by Ralph Moore, a manipulative social climber. Mary, dau
1915-06-04
The secluded life of sturdy young lighthouse-keeper Robert and his wife Anna is interrupted by a vis
1915-05-31
Steven Brooks, a young man who finds himself entangled in a complicated situation involving his wife
1915-05-26
A maid in the politician's household is bribed to call on the young man late at night, for the purpo
1915-05-17
After accidentally injuring a friend in a wrestling match and swearing off violence of any kind, Dr.

1915-05-12
A group of boys are playing baseball on a playground, and one of them hits the ball over the fence,
1915-05-03
Mary, a farmer's daughter in New England. The summer boarders who had been staying at her family's f
1915-04-28
Andy is searching for a woman whose photo he found in an envelope with the challenge "Find me." Mean
1915-04-19
Rancher Algy discovers oil on his property and outsmarts a land shark named Todd who tries to buy th
1915-04-14
1915-04-09
Fred Rees proposes to Edith Shanlon, contingent on her mother's approval, which is initially denied

1915-04-05
After his brother's death, Arnold Downs, to save the reputation of his brother's sweetheart, Clara M
1915-03-31
Jimmie and Molly are a pair of sibling thieves-he a burglar, she a shoplifter. When Jimmie is arrest
1915-03-22
After the Duke of Lorenzo discovers the Duchess with her lover, Count Riccardo the men duel leading
1915-03-08
Following a cattle roundup, rancher Burton provides a holiday for his cowboys. During the celebratio
1915-03-03
Within earshot of her fiancé Leo Holmes and his friend Bruce Morgan Louise Wilke says she could neve
1915-02-22
Ida Price has been cheated out of her share in her father's estate by her cousin Charles. She puts t
1915-02-17
In a village where appearances reigned, a wealthy woman, known as "The Saint," presided from her gra
1915-02-08
Tom Allen, a hardworking young miner. He cautions his wife, Beatrice, about the presence of a "worth

1927-02-26
A maid is forced to take the place of the lady of the house when she is temporarily incapacitated.

1919-01-12

1914-08-31
"Damaged Goods" pictures the terrible consequences of vice and the physical ruin that follows the ab

1917-10-01
John Stuart Webster, mining engineer, having accumulated a fortune in Death Valley, Calif., starts f

1920-01-18
Wealthy wastrel Neil Sparks devotes more attention to the pursuit of pleasure than to his inherited

1919-06-16
Although her husband and children want to continue living modestly after they acquire a fortune from

1927-01-02
While taking a morning workout, young prizefighter Danny Martin encounters Charlotte Hamilton in dis

1920-03-08
When his honeymoon is over, Knox Randall shifts his attention from his wife Ailsa to his business. F

1921-10-05
Lester Crope, who has a penchant for inventing imaginative stories, alarms his village by reporting

1917-01-08
After her mother dies, a young girl is sent with her little sister to live with their aunt and uncle

1922-09-25
Bob Mortimer, an unsuccessful traveling salesman, picks up the wrong valise and finds it full of mon