Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1941-01-07
Day of Death
2022-07-31
Place of Birth
Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
John Steiner
Biography
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 (78)
The Voysey Inheritance
2014
The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
2013
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008My Roman Holiday With John Steiner
2007
Paprika
1991
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
1989
Massacre Play
1989
Appuntamento a Liverpool
1988
The Commander
1988
Night of the Sharks
1988
Striker
1988
Julia and Julia
1988
Portami la luna
1987
