John Steiner
Acting
Born 1941-01-07
Died 2022-07-31
Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
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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
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The Saint
BBC Play of the Month
Caligula
Department S
A.D.
The Sandbaggers
Salon Kitty
Big Man
Tepepa
Tenebre
The Salamander
Paprika
Shock
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
Julia and Julia
Action
Massacre in Rome
White Fang
The Sextet
Challenge to White Fang
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
Deported Women of the SS Special Section
Armchair Theatre
Sanctuary
May Morning
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
The Berlin Affair
Hine
Bedazzled
Dagger Eyes
The Last Hunter
Plot of Fear
Cut and Run
Body Count
Occupations
Yor: The Hunter from the Future
Too Much
Waves of Lust
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
Il prigioniero
I Don't Want to Be Born
Twelve Plus One
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
The Ark of the Sun God
Slap the Monster on Page One
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
A Man Called Blade
The Hornet's Nest
The World of Yor
Question of Love
Night of the Sharks
The Lone Runner
Goodbye & Amen
Bali
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
A Girl Called Jules
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
The Professional
Cobra Mission
The Little Archimedes
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