John Steiner

Known for ActingBorn 1941-01-07Died 2022-07-31Chester, Cheshire, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Sextet

Portami la luna

The Sandbaggers

Un caso d'incoscienza

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

The Little Archimedes

The Golden Ass

Slap the Monster on Page One

Paprika

La Gabbia

The Saint

Il prigioniero

Violent Milan

The Last Day of School Before Christmas

Holidays

Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison

Tenebre

Question of Love

The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond

The Police Serve the Citizens?

The Case Is Closed, Forget It

Goodbye & Amen

A Man Called Blade

Too Much

Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer

The Hornet's Nest

Tepepa

Alice

Gangbusters

A Girl Called Jules

The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

Appuntamento a Liverpool

Shock

Morel's Invention

White Fang

Commando Leopard

Massacre in Rome

Challenge to White Fang

I due carabinieri

Violent Rome

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

Bedazzled

Caligula

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

Work Is a 4-Letter Word

Sanctuary

Armchair Theatre