Acting · Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Born January 7, 1941
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.
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2014
as Trenchard Voysey
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2013
as Self
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2012
as Self
MoviePaura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008
as Self
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2007
as Self
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1991
as Prince Ascanio Del Bardo
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1989
as Jaffar
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1989
as Danilo
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1988
as Zebra
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1988
as British Police Inspector
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1988
as Duclaud
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1988
as Rosentski
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1988
as Kariasin
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1988
as Alex
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1987
as Walfredo
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1986
as Skorm
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1986
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1986
as Dr. Olsen
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1986
as James Walcott
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1986
as Mike Adams
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1985
as Smithy
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1985
as Oskar Engelhart
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1985
as Vlado
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1985
as Milton Tennyson
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1985
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1984
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1984
as Lord Dean
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1983
as Ivanov
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1983
as Overlord
TVThe World of Yor
1983
as Il Supremo
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1982
as Christiano Berti
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1982
as Captain David Franks
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1981
as Kirby
MovieThe Salamander
1981
as Captain Roditi
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1980
as Major William Cash
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1980
as Alfred
MovieAction
1980
as The Manager
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1979
as Longinus
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1979
as Leo
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1978
as Tom Hastings
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1978
as Trevor D'Arcy
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1978
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1977
as Donald Grayson
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1977
as Laurin
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1977
as Killer
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1977
as Rudy
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1977
as Valler
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1977
as Bruno Baldini
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1977
as Schwein
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1977
as Il professore
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1976
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1976
as Paul Henkel
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1976
as Hoffmann
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1976
as Fisher
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1976
as Fausto
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1976
as Biondo
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1976
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1975
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1975
as Franco "Chiodo" Spadoni
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1975
as Giorgio
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1975
as Lieutenant
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1974
as Beauty Smith / Charles Forth
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1974
as Terrini
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1974
as Morel
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1973
as Charles 'Beauty' Smith
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1973
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1973
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1973
as Johnny
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1973
as Scagnetti
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1972
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1972
as Simon Tesco
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1971
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1971
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1970
as Glenn
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1970
as Aristomene
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1970
as Roderick Rodney Stanton
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1970
as Luciano
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1970
as Robert
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1969
as Stanley
TVDepartment S
1969
as Hershall
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1969
as Doctor Henry Price
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1968
as Anthony
MovieBedazzled
1967
as TV Announcer (uncredited)
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1967
MovieThe 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
1967
as Monsieur Dupere
TVBBC Play of the Month
1965
as Trenchard Voysey
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1965
TVThe Saint
1962
as Grey Wyler
TVArmchair Theatre
1956
as Gooch
