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.

Filmography

• 2014The Voysey Inheritance — Trenchard Voysey
• 1991Paprika — Prince Ascanio Del Bardo
• 1989Massacre Play — Danilo
• 1989Sinbad of the Seven Seas — Jaffar
• 1988Appuntamento a Liverpool — British Police Inspector
• Big Man — Zebra
• 1988Julia and Julia — Alex
• 1988Night of the Sharks — Rosentski
• 1988Striker — Kariasin
• 1988The Commander — Duclaud
• 1987Portami la luna — Walfredo
• 1986Body Count — Dr. Olsen
• 1986Cobra Mission — James Walcott
• 1986Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil — Frederick, Fulvia's lover
• 1986The Lone Runner — Skorm
• 1986Too Much — Mike Adams
• A.D. — Simon der Magier
• 1985Commando Leopard — Smithy
• 1985Cut and Run — Vlado
• 1985The Berlin Affair — Oskar Engelhart
• 1985Un caso d'incoscienza — Milton Tennyson
• 1984I due carabinieri — Crazy man on the train
• 1984The Ark of the Sun God — Lord Dean
• 1983Dagger Eyes — Ivanov
• The World of Yor — Il Supremo
• 1983Yor: The Hunter from the Future — Overlord
• 1982Tenebre — Christiano Berti
• 1982The Hunters of the Golden Cobra — Captain David Franks
• 1981Car Crash — Kirby
• 1981The Salamander — Captain Roditi
• 1980Action — The Manager
• 1980The Last Hunter — Major William Cash
• 1980The Little Archimedes — Alfred
• 1979Caligula — Longinus
• 1979Design for Living — Leo
• 1978Il prigioniero
• 1978Question of Love — Tom Hastings
• The Sandbaggers — Trevor D'Arcy
• 1977A Man Called Blade — Valler
• 1977Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison — Laurin
• 1977Gangbusters — Killer
• 1977Goodbye & Amen — Donald Grayson
• 1977La Gabbia — Il professore
• 1977Shock — Bruno Baldini
• 1977The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond — Rudy
• 1977Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer — Schwein
• 1976Deported Women of the SS Special Section — Herr Erner
• 1976I Don't Want to Be Born — Tommy Morris
• 1976Mark Strikes Again — Paul Henkel
• 1976Plot of Fear — Hoffmann
• 1976Salon Kitty — Biondo
• 1976The Hornet's Nest — Fisher
• 1976Violent Milan — Fausto
• 1975Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza — Count Dragulescu
• 1975The Last Day of School Before Christmas — Lieutenant
• 1975Violent Rome — Franco "Chiodo" Spadoni
• 1975Waves of Lust — Giorgio
• 1974Challenge to White Fang — Beauty Smith / Charles Forth
• 1974Morel's Invention — Morel
• 1974Occupations — Terrini
• 1973Holidays — Scagnetti
• 1973Massacre in Rome — SS-Standartenführer Eugen Dollmann
• 1973The Police Serve the Citizens? — Lambro
• 1973The Professional — Johnny
• 1973White Fang — Charles 'Beauty' Smith
• 1972Slap the Monster on Page One — Ing. Montelli
• The Sextet — Simon Tesco
• Hine
• 1971The Case Is Closed, Forget It — Piro
• 1970A Girl Called Jules — Luciano
• 1970Bali — Glenn
• 1970May Morning — Roderick Rodney Stanton
• 1970The Ancines Woods — Robert
• 1970The Golden Ass — Aristomene
• Department S — Hershall
• 1969Tepepa — Doctor Henry Price
• 1969Twelve Plus One — Stanley
• 1968Work Is a 4-Letter Word — Anthony
• 1967Bedazzled — TV Announcer (uncredited)
• Sanctuary
• 1967The 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 — Monsieur Dupere
• 1965Alice
• BBC Play of the Month — Trenchard Voysey, Leo
• The Saint — Grey Wyler
• Armchair Theatre — Gooch, Nigel

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2013The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti — Self
• 2012Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s — Self
• 2008Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 — Self
• 2007My Roman Holiday With John Steiner — Self