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John Steppling

Date of birth: 1870-08-08

Place of birth: Essen, Germany

Known for: Acting

Also known as: John C. Steppling

John Steppling

Biography

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.

Movie Credits

The Road Through the Dark
0

The Road Through the Dark

1918-11-01

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

California Straight Ahead
3.5

California Straight Ahead

1925-09-12

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

Miss Jackie of the Navy
0

Miss Jackie of the Navy

1916-11-30

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

The Heart of a Child
0

The Heart of a Child

1920-04-11

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

The Sin Flood
0

The Sin Flood

1922-11-12

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

High Steppers
0

High Steppers

1926-03-14

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

Lombardi, Ltd.
0

Lombardi, Ltd.

1919-10-01

Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensat

Jim
0

Jim

1914-06-15

At the palatial home of a merchant the latter's wife entertains her husband's friends. The guests ha

Glass Houses
0

Glass Houses

1922-03-06

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

The Promise
0

The Promise

1917-02-19

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

Broken Lullaby
3.8

Broken Lullaby

1932-01-24

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

The Fast Worker
0

The Fast Worker

1924-10-25

Roxbury asks his friend Terry to assume his identity and go on vacation with his wife, Edith, and th

American dream
0

American dream

2007-01-01

What connected Harry and Scarlet when the mysterious Cadillac appeared in the rearview mirror? A sto

A Cafe in Cairo
0

A Cafe in Cairo

1924-12-07

When her British parents are killed when an Arabian desert bandit launches an attack on their encamp

The Husband Hunter
0

The Husband Hunter

1920-01-01

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

Pretenses
0

Pretenses

1915-12-07

Short comedy about a janitor at a bank that pretends to be a director in order to impress a girl.

The Comet's Come-Back
0

The Comet's Come-Back

1916-05-31

The gases left in the wake of a comet that passed by earth have the effect of making everyone on the

Bell Boy 13
3

Bell Boy 13

1923-01-19

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

The County Fair
2.4

The County Fair

1920-09-05

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

The Silver Car
0

The Silver Car

1921-06-01

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

Johanna Enlists
2.9

Johanna Enlists

1918-09-14

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

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
0.5

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

1913-09-01

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

Let's Go
3.5

Let's Go

1923-10-31

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

Good Night, Paul
0

Good Night, Paul

1918-06-20

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

Going Up
0

Going Up

1923-09-30

Going Up (1923)

A Lady's Name
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A Lady's Name

1918-12-10

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

A Bathtub Bandit
2.5

A Bathtub Bandit

1917-11-02

Bathtub movers on the job.

Memory Lane
0

Memory Lane

1926-02-01

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

Madame Peacock
0

Madame Peacock

1920-10-01

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

Billions
2.5

Billions

1920-12-06

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

Soft Shoes
3.5

Soft Shoes

1925-01-01

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

Black Beauty
1

Black Beauty

1921-01-01

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

The Better Man
0

The Better Man

1926-06-06

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

The Reckless Age
2.5

The Reckless Age

1924-08-16

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

Luck in Pawn
0

Luck in Pawn

1919-11-19

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

The Man Next Door
0

The Man Next Door

1923-05-28

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

Nobody's Kid
0

Nobody's Kid

1921-04-17

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

Sick Abed
0

Sick Abed

1920-06-27

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

Caprice
0.5

Caprice

1913-11-10

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

Eve's Lover
0

Eve's Lover

1925-07-06

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

The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
0

The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln

1924-02-02

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

Behind the Counter
3.5

Behind the Counter

1928-03-03

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

Billy McGrath on Broadway
2.5

Billy McGrath on Broadway

1913-03-04

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

The Galloping Fish
0

The Galloping Fish

1924-03-10

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

What a Wife Learned
0

What a Wife Learned

1923-01-28

A novelist's success causes a rift between her and her rancher husband.

The Breathless Moment
0

The Breathless Moment

1924-02-03

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

In the Bishop's Carriage
0.5

In the Bishop's Carriage

1913-09-10

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

Too Much Business
0

Too Much Business

1922-04-09

Through sheer bluff Rodney Marvin ( Edward Everett Horton ) gets a job on a newspaper; becomes edito

Mixed Wires
0

Mixed Wires

1915-08-25

Insurance adjuster John Smith leaves for a nearby town to adjust a loss. He tells Mrs. Smith that he

The Jilt
0

The Jilt

1915-08-16

Roy Norman and Marie Thompson are betrothed. However, a friend of Roy's, Allan Boyd, arrives and he

Comrades Three
0

Comrades Three

1915-08-11

Detective Blinn
0

Detective Blinn

1915-08-02

The intrepid Detective Blinn investigates a series of baffling jewel thefts targeting wealthy women.

The Deception
0

The Deception

1915-07-28

Discovering the day before her marriage that her fiancé is already married Violet Day has a breakdow

Wait and See
0

Wait and See

1915-07-21

Young Beth Manners ekes out a living painting china. One day she finds a shoe that had been lost by

The Zaca Lake Mystery
0

The Zaca Lake Mystery

1915-07-12

After Outlaw Slippery Joe robs a miner and his daughter, a sheriff pursues him. While on the outlaw’

The High Cost of Flirting
0

The High Cost of Flirting

1915-07-07

Ethel Dunne and Jack Blakeney are sweethearts, despite the objections of Ethel's father. Mr. Dunne h

By Whose Hand?
0

By Whose Hand?

1915-06-28

Chester Rowe commits a robbery and murder, then flees to the mountains where he meets and falls in l

His Obligation
0

His Obligation

1915-06-14

Young Mary Lehner is deceived and abandoned by Ralph Moore, a manipulative social climber. Mary, dau

The Guiding Light
0

The Guiding Light

1915-06-04

The secluded life of sturdy young lighthouse-keeper Robert and his wife Anna is interrupted by a vis

The Resolve
0

The Resolve

1915-05-31

Steven Brooks, a young man who finds himself entangled in a complicated situation involving his wife

Reprisal
0

Reprisal

1915-05-26

A maid in the politician's household is bribed to call on the young man late at night, for the purpo

The Greater Strength
0

The Greater Strength

1915-05-17

After accidentally injuring a friend in a wrestling match and swearing off violence of any kind, Dr.

The Broken Window
0

The Broken Window

1915-05-12

A group of boys are playing baseball on a playground, and one of them hits the ball over the fence,

One Summer's Sequel
0

One Summer's Sequel

1915-05-03

Mary, a farmer's daughter in New England. The summer boarders who had been staying at her family's f

Wife Wanted
0

Wife Wanted

1915-04-28

Andy is searching for a woman whose photo he found in an envelope with the challenge "Find me." Mean

The Castle Ranch
0

The Castle Ranch

1915-04-19

Rancher Algy discovers oil on his property and outsmarts a land shark named Todd who tries to buy th

The Wishing Stone
0

The Wishing Stone

1915-04-14

The Problem
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The Problem

1915-04-09

Fred Rees proposes to Edith Shanlon, contingent on her mother's approval, which is initially denied

His Brother's Debt
0

His Brother's Debt

1915-04-05

After his brother's death, Arnold Downs, to save the reputation of his brother's sweetheart, Clara M

Reformation
0

Reformation

1915-03-31

Jimmie and Molly are a pair of sibling thieves-he a burglar, she a shoplifter. When Jimmie is arrest

Ancestry
0

Ancestry

1915-03-22

After the Duke of Lorenzo discovers the Duchess with her lover, Count Riccardo the men duel leading

The Truth of Fiction
0

The Truth of Fiction

1915-03-08

Following a cattle roundup, rancher Burton provides a holiday for his cowboys. During the celebratio

The Derelict
0

The Derelict

1915-03-03

Within earshot of her fiancé Leo Holmes and his friend Bruce Morgan Louise Wilke says she could neve

The Decision
0

The Decision

1915-02-22

Ida Price has been cheated out of her share in her father's estate by her cousin Charles. She puts t

Saints and Sinners
0

Saints and Sinners

1915-02-17

In a village where appearances reigned, a wealthy woman, known as "The Saint," presided from her gra

Justified
0

Justified

1915-02-08

Tom Allen, a hardworking young miner. He cautions his wife, Beatrice, about the presence of a "worth

The Gay Old Bird
0

The Gay Old Bird

1927-02-26

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

Life's a Funny Proposition
0

Life's a Funny Proposition

1919-01-12

Damaged Goods
0.5

Damaged Goods

1914-08-31

"Damaged Goods" pictures the terrible consequences of vice and the physical ruin that follows the ab

A Man's Man
0

A Man's Man

1917-10-01

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

Live Sparks
0

Live Sparks

1920-01-18

Wealthy wastrel Neil Sparks devotes more attention to the pursuit of pleasure than to his inherited

Fools and Their Money
0

Fools and Their Money

1919-06-16

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

Her Father Said No
0

Her Father Said No

1927-01-02

While taking a morning workout, young prizefighter Danny Martin encounters Charlotte Hamilton in dis

The Inferior Sex
0

The Inferior Sex

1920-03-08

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

Garments of Truth
0

Garments of Truth

1921-10-05

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

The Butterfly Girl
0

The Butterfly Girl

1917-01-08

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

Confidence
0

Confidence

1922-09-25

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