Steven Berkoff (born Leslie Steven Berks; 3 August 1937) is an English actor, author, playwright, theatre practitioner and theatre director. As a theatre maker he is recognised for staging work with a heightened performance style known as "Berkovian theatre", which combines elements of physical theatre, total theatre and expressionism. His work has sometimes been viewed as an example of in-yer-face theatre, due to the intense presentation and taboo-breaking material in a number of his plays. As a screen actor, he is known for his performances in villainous roles, including the portrayals of General Orlov in the James Bond film Octopussy (1983), Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Lt. Col. Podovsky in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Adolf Hitler in War and Remembrance (1988–89).

Filmography

• 2025Desperate Journey — Raphael
• 2024Bad Seed — Doctor Ainsley (voice)
• 2024Hamlet — Polonius
• 2024The Can — Mason
• 2024The Performance — Sam
• 2024The Phantom Warrior — Hades
• 2023Young, Sexy & Dead — Claudio Vestiquez
• 2022Exorcist Vengeance — Bishop Canelo
• 2022Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher — Walter
• 2022Titanium White — Father Tornatore
• 2021Alice, Through the Looking — Executive Producer
• 2021Creation Stories — Aleister Crowley
• Einstein's Quantum Riddle — Narrator
• 2020Ernie — Arthur
• 2020L'amore segreto di Ofelia — Author
• 2020L'énigme quantique d'Einstein — narrateur
• 2020Righteous Villains — Grandfather
• 2020The Secret Love Life of Ophelia — Writer
• 2019Brighton — Author
• 2019Red Devil — Lazarus
• 2019Steven Berkoff's Tell Tale Heart — Edmund, Screenplay
• 2019The Last Faust — Dr. Goodfellow
• 2018Blitzed: Nazis on Drugs — Host
• 2018Point of No Return — Evans
• 2017Fanged Up — Governor Payne
• 2017London Heist — Alfie
• Lore — Dr. Kristoff Brehovy
• 2017Transhuman — Til
• Barbarians Rising — Augustus
• 2016Manhattan Night — Hobbs
• 20157 Cases — Lawson
• 2015North v South — Vic Clarke
• 2015Rise of the Footsoldier: Part II — Dr. Flint
• 2014Katherine of Alexandria — Liberius
• 2014We Still Kill the Old Way — Charlie Archer
• 2013Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian — Friend
• 2013RED 2 — Cobb
• 2013The Boy with a Camera for a Face — Narrator
• Vikings — King Olaf the Stout
• Witches of East End — King Nikolaus
• 2012G.B.H. — Chief Constable
• 2012Strippers vs. Werewolves — Flett
• 2011Big Fat Gypsy Gangster — Guru Shah
• The Borgias — Girolamo Savonarola
• 2011The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Dirch Frode
• 2010Dead Cert — Kenneth Mason
• 2010Drop Dead Gorgeous
• 2010Metamorphosis — Writer, Music, Set Designer, Director
• 2010Perfect Life — The Elder
• 2010The Big I Am — The MC
• 2010The Rapture — The Controller
• 2010The Road to Coronation Street — Sidney Bernstein
• 2010The Tourist — Reginald Shaw
• 200944 Inch Chest — Tippi Gordon
• 2009At World's End — Jack Pudovski
• 2009Shakespeare’s Villains — Himself, Richard III, Othello, Macbeth, Juliet, CAsio, Writer
• 2008Bear Hunting
• Das jüngste Gericht — Conrad
• The 60s: The Beatles Decade
• 2008Watch Your Own Heart Attack — Performer
• 2007Say It in Russian
• Hotel Babylon — Mr. Wiltshire
• 2006Penguins of the Antarctic — Narrator
• 2006Pu-239 — Starkov
• 2006The 10th Man — 'Red' Jack Weinbaum
• 2006The Flying Scotsman — Ernst Hagemann
• 2005Action Man: X Missions The Movie — Dr. X (voice)
• Doctor Who — Shakri
• 2005Forest of the Gods — Commandant Hoppe
• 2005Quails Quest: Its a Boy!
• 2005Shadow of the Sword — Inquisitor
• 2004Action Man: Robot ATAK — Dr. X (voice)
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Mr. Eccles
• 2004Brides — Karabulat
• 2004Charlie
• 2004Head in the Clouds — Charles Bessé
• 2003Bokshu - The Myth — Professor Metcalf
• Frank Herbert's Children of Dune — Stilgar
• 2003Headrush — Wuj
• Seven Wonders of the Industrial World — John Roebling
• 20029 Dead Gay Guys — Jeff
• 2002Beginner's Luck — Magic Bob
• Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale — Meisling
• 2002Steal — Surtayne
• 2001Attila — King Rua
• Attila — King Rua
• Frank Herbert's Dune — Стилгар
• In the Beginning — Potiphar
• 2000Rancid Aluminium — Mr Kant
• Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
• 1999East — Director
• 1999Expelling the Demon — Man / Tongue
• 1998Legionnaire — Sgt. Steinkampf
• 1997Another 9 1/2 Weeks — Vittorio DaSilva
• 1997Coriolanus — Coriolanus, Director
• La Femme Nikita — Charles Sand/Carlo Giraldi
• 1995Fair Game — Colonel Ilya Kazak
• 1994Decadence — Steve / Les / Helen's Couturier, Director, Screenplay
• Space Precinct — Dr. Paul Jorry
• 1993Flynn — Klaus Reicher
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Hagath
• Intruders — Addison Leach
• 1992Oscar Wilde's Salome — Herod, Director, Writer
• 1990A Season of Giants — Girolamo Savonarola
• A Season of Giants — Girolamo Savonarola
• 1990Silent Night — Harry
• 1990The Krays — George Cornell
• 1990Turnage: Greek — Writer
• 1989Metamorphosis — Mr. Samsa, Writer
• 1989Streets of Yesterday
• 1988Prisoner of Rio — Jack McFarland
• War and Remembrance — Adolf Hitler
• 1986Absolute Beginners — The Fanatic
• Sins — Karl Von Eiderfeld
• 1986Under the Cherry Moon — Mr. Sharon
• 1985Rambo: First Blood Part II — Lt. Col. Podovsky
• 1985Revolution — Sgt. Jones
• 1985Underworld — Hugo Motherskille
• 1984Beverly Hills Cop — Victor Maitland
• Natural World — Narrator
• 1983Octopussy — Orlov
• 1981Beloved Enemy — Kozlov
• 1981Outland — Sagan
• 1980McVicar — Ronnie Harrison
• The South Bank Show
• 1977Joseph Andrews — Greasy Fellow
• The Professionals — Krasnov
• 1975Barry Lyndon — Lord Ludd
• 1975The Passenger — Stephen
• 1971A Clockwork Orange — Det. Const. Tom
• 1971Nicholas and Alexandra — Pankratov
• Play for Today
• UFO — Capt. Steve Minto
• 1969Vendetta for The Saint — Bertoli
• The Champions — Carlos
• The Expert — Mike Barratt
• 1967Slave Girls — John
• 1965The Pistol — Private First Class Gutkowski
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Bert
• 1964Hamlet at Elsinore — Lucianus
• The Wednesday Play — Councillor
• Festival — Messenger
• Corrigan Blake
• The Saint — Carl
• 1961Konga — Student on Field Trip (uncredited)
• 1959The Captain's Table — (uncredited)
• 1959The Devil's Disciple — British Corporal
• 1958I Was Monty's Double — Minor Role (uncredited)
• Dixon of Dock Green — Dave Banks
• Kristallnacht — Rabbi Goldstein
• Nameless — Dr. Bymmock
• Oedipus — Director
• The Awakening — Henry
• The Awakening 2 — Henry
• The Sacrifice

Appearances as themselves (12)

• 2026My Life As Roger Moore — Self
• 2024From Roger Moore with Love — Self
• Remembers… — Self
• 2018Meeting Jim — Self
• 2013Muse of Fire — Self
• 2012The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women — Self
• 2010The Madness of Peter Howson — Self
• 2009Pinter's Progress — Self
• 2000Inside 'Octopussy' — Self
• Brass Eye — Self
• The Big Story — Self - George Cornell (archive footage)
• Riverside — Self