John Steiner
Date of birth: 1941-01-07
Place of birth: Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
Twelve Plus One
1969-10-07
Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to
Shock
1977-08-12
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husban
Paprika
1991-02-13
Mimma starts working in Madame Colette’s brothel to help her boyfriend financially. There she is rec
Too Much
1986-01-30
Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and
Cut and Run
1985-08-08
A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a d
Body Count
1986-10-28
A bodybuilder, a junk-food addict and a wild blonde nymph and their friends are stalked by a terrify
Caligula
1979-08-14
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e
I Don't Want to Be Born
1976-02-01
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary one. The child is seemingly possessed by the
Salon Kitty
1976-03-02
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been
The Lone Runner
1986-11-01
The Summerking's daughter has been kidnapped, and the legendary hero of the desert comes to her resc
Waves of Lust
1975-08-04
A young couple become embroiled with the personal problems of another couple on a yacht moored off S
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008-03-06
This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through
Morel's Invention
1974-01-01
A castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it's uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a hidden
Plot of Fear
1976-09-17
Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts o
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
1989-04-01
Sinbad returns from the sea to find his country subjected to the will of two unscrupulous sorcerers.
Yor: The Hunter from the Future
1983-08-19
Yor is an extremely blond prehistoric warrior who comes to question his origins, particularly with r
Bali
1970-12-29
The wife of a European photographer on assignment in exotic Bali falls for an enigmatic ex patriot u
Violent Milan
1976-03-05
A gang of thieves decides to hit the headquarters of Aspex. The police intervened and only two of th
Night of the Sharks
1988-04-01
David must fight for his life against the gangsters who killed his brother for a CD filled with proo
Slap the Monster on Page One
1972-10-19
Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape,
Deported Women of the SS Special Section
1976-11-23
Young women in Nazi-occupied countries are packed onto a train and shipped off to a prison camp, whe
Cobra Mission
1986-07-31
Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to inve
A Man Called Blade
1977-08-13
Maurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate
Tepepa
1969-01-31
The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.
Mark Strikes Again
1976-10-20
A murderous drug dealer breaks his partner out of police custody. An undercover cop is assigned to t
The Last Hunter
1980-08-09
During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped beind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies s
Violent Rome
1975-08-13
A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds wit
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
1982-08-11
An American soldier and a British intelligence agent try to track down an ancient relic called the G
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012-03-30
A documentary concerning the violent Italian 'poliziotteschi' cinematic movement of the 1970s which,
The Ark of the Sun God
1984-08-17
A safecracker takes a job where he must go to Istanbul and steal a scepter that once belonged to the
Commando Leopard
1985-10-24
A cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are present ev
The Commander
1988-04-28
Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is un
Appuntamento a Liverpool
1988-09-02
Caterina's father died before her eyes in the Heysel Stadium disaster. Years later, she's summoned b
May Morning
1970-08-02
A dramatic and penetrating examination of the intellectual and moral standards existing at Oxford Un
The Police Serve the Citizens?
1973-09-06
In Genoa, the Commissioner Sironi has identified the leader of the ferocious racket that controls th
Striker
1988-03-17
John Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandinista prison in Nicaragua.
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968-09-15
Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in h
A Girl Called Jules
1970-07-25
After his Western triumphs, Valerii stepped out of the shadow of Sergio Leone with this distinctly B
The Ancines Woods
1970-04-19
Benito Freire, a pedlar in a small village in northern Spain suffers from epileptic seizures and rum
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
1971-10-27
Arrested on suspicion of a hit and run, a succesful architect is put in prison awaiting trial or rel
Massacre in Rome
1973-10-04
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military g
White Fang
1973-12-21
The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father o
Challenge to White Fang
1974-10-25
Sequel to Lucio Fulci's first 'White Fang' has the wolf-dog once again trying to stop the villainous
The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond
1977-08-23
Returning from Switzerland to Rome, the boss prof. Salviati, called 'The Prince', finds his business
Gangbusters
1977-09-21
Mario Gastaldi, a lawyer with no clients and no money, agrees to be a negotiator in a deal on stolen
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
1977-09-22
Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of
Goodbye & Amen
1977-12-23
As John Dannahay, a CIA agent stationed in Rome, plans the overthrow of an African government, he di
Action
1980-01-04
A failed actor, broken by violence and rejection, finds refuge among outcasts and forms an unconvent
The Salamander
1981-04-25
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left
Dagger Eyes
1983-11-28
Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknown
I due carabinieri
1984-12-21
Two deadbeat friends barely pass the entrance exam for the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of
The Berlin Affair
1985-10-03
What begins as an innocent art class becomes a steamy triangle of erotic passions and forbidden love
Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
1986-10-31
A charming billionaire manager kidnaps a criminal and locks him up in her private villa in Sardinia.
Julia and Julia
1988-02-05
A grieving woman, haunted by the loss of her husband on their wedding day, suddenly finds herself sl
La Gabbia
1977-04-06
Based on the infamous Stanford prison experiment. In 1977, Italian director Carlo Tuzii adapted the
Car Crash
1981-07-24
When successful racer Nick, with friend and business manager Paul are threatened off the racing circ
Occupations
1974-09-01
In an attempt to win better conditions for the workers in 1920s Turin, Gramsci leads a takeover of t
The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
2013-04-17
Documentary on the life and films of Antonio Margheriti.
My Roman Holiday With John Steiner
2007-10-02
Interview with John Stiener about his career and views and perspectives on Caligula and some of his
Il prigioniero
1978-01-01
Italian TV movie. Based upon a novel by Anton Chekhov.
The Hornet's Nest
1976-03-10
A compulsive gambler must steal a suitcase full of money, which is also coveted by Melba, a cabaret
The Professional
1973-03-03
An insignificant little middle-aged man strikes a heinous bargain with an underworld expert. The man
The Last Day of School Before Christmas
1975-03-20
On the Apennines of Emilia in 1944 three fascists stop and seize a battered bus carrying several wom
Holidays
1973-01-02
Rossini, history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the oat
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
1975-08-21
A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard
The Golden Ass
1970-08-26
In ancient Mauretania, the young Roman Lucius Apuleius and his friend Aristomene run into a series o
Question of Love
1978-10-18
Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspect his youn
Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer
1977-08-05
Design for Living
1979-05-06
Design for Living presents a trio of neurotic but intensely artistic characters: Gilda, Otto and Leo
Bedazzled
1967-10-30
A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning ov
The Little Archimedes
1980-03-07
The action takes place in Florence in the 1930s. Alfred, an Englishman who moved to that city in ord
Marat/Sade
1967-02-22
In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the pat
Massacre Play
1989-01-01
Estranged childhood friends, both passionate filmmakers, find themselves on divergent paths: one an
Tenebre
1982-10-28
A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American myste
Un caso d'incoscienza
1985-07-10
In Italy, set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire (Erland Josephson) is the target of
The Voysey Inheritance
2014-05-15
Young Edward discovers that the family business he is due to inherit has been defrauding clients for
Portami la luna
1987-06-04